Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1926-05-12 (99 years old)
Place of Birth
Oakland, California, USA
Also known As
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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...
1936
as Kim as a Child
1931
as Anne Boyd
1939
as Imogene
1938
as Gwendolyn (uncredited)
1938
as Princesse Therese
1935
as Little Cosette (as Marilynne Knowlden)
1938
as Julia Blaine
1933
as Amy's Classmate (uncredited)
1944
as Co-ed in Drugstore (uncredited)
1932
as Frances Standish, as a child
1934
as Esther
1935
as Maria
1938
1937
as Girl
1931
as Annie Benton
1938
as Laury - as a Child
1936
as Flora at Age 9 (uncredited)
1936
as Lucille Layton
1940
as Marianna Van Horn (uncredited)
1935
as Agnes Wickfield as a Girl
1940
as Julie Kriza
1936
as Florence Udney
1936
as Gwen Ferry
1934
as Jessie Pullman, Age 8 (uncredited)
1932
as Ruth as a Girl (Uncredited)
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