Marilyn Knowlden

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1926-05-12 (99 years old)

Place of Birth

Oakland, California, USA

Marilyn Knowlden

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 (1935), in which she played the child Cosette. She appeared in six films nominated by the Academy for Best Production of the Year and performed with s...

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

1935

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)

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