Marilyn Knowlden
Birthday
1923/05/12 (101 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Oakland, California, USA
Also know as
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Biography
In 1931, a one-day effort by Marilyn Knowlden's attorney father led to an interview, a next-day screen test and a large part for four-year-old Marilyn in one of the early "talkies", Women Love Once (1931). A ten-year movie career followed, where she played the daughter of such stars as Claudette Colbert, Katharine Hepburn, Allan Jones and Norma Shearer. She appeared in some of the screen's great classics, including Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), David Copperfield (1935) and Les Misérables (...Read more
Acting
(1936) Show Boat
as Kim as a Child
(1931) Husband's Holiday
as Anne Boyd
(1939) Hidden Power
as Imogene
(1938) Just Around the Corner
as Gwendolyn (uncredited)
(1938) Marie Antoinette
as Princesse Therese
(1935) Les Misérables
as Little Cosette (as Marilynne Knowlden)
(1938) Barefoot Boy
as Julia Blaine
(1933) Little Women
as Amy's Classmate (uncredited)
(1944) Broadway Rhythm
as Co-ed in Drugstore (uncredited)
(1932) The Conquerors
as Frances Standish, as a child
(1934) As the Earth Turns
as Esther
(1935) Condemned to Live
as Maria
(1938) An Evening with Edgar Guest
as Ann
(1937) Slave Ship
as Girl
(1931) The Cisco Kid
as Annie Benton
(1938) Angels with Dirty Faces
as Laury - as a Child
(1936) A Woman Rebels
as Flora at Age 9 (uncredited)
(1936) Rainbow on the River
as Lucille Layton
(1940) All This, and Heaven Too
as Marianna Van Horn (uncredited)
(1935) David Copperfield
as Agnes Wickfield as a Girl
(1940) The Way of All Flesh
as Julie Kriza
(1936) Anthony Adverse
as Florence Udney
(1936) Easy to Take
as Gwen Ferry
(1934) Imitation of Life
as Jessie Pullman, Age 8 (uncredited)
(1932) Call Her Savage
as Ruth as a Girl (Uncredited)