Marilyn Knowlden
Acting
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Acting Credits
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 (1...
Known For
Little Women
Meg’s Charge (uncredited)
Angels with Dirty Faces
Laury - as a Child
All This, and Heaven Too
Marianna Van Horn (uncredited)
David Copperfield
Agnes Wickfield as a Girl
Marie Antoinette
Princesse Therese
Imitation of Life
Jessie Pullman, Age 8 (uncredited)
Les Misérables
Little Cosette (as Marilynne Knowlden)
Show Boat
Kim as a Child
Filmography
Broadway Rhythm
1944
as Co-ed in Drugstore (uncredited)
All This, and Heaven Too
1940
as Marianna Van Horn (uncredited)
The Way of All Flesh
1940
as Julie Kriza
Hidden Power
1939
as Imogene
Just Around the Corner
1938
as Gwendolyn (uncredited)
Marie Antoinette
1938
as Princesse Therese
Barefoot Boy
1938
as Julia Blaine
An Evening with Edgar Guest
1938
as Ann
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938
as Laury - as a Child
Slave Ship
1937
as Girl
Show Boat
1936
as Kim as a Child
A Woman Rebels
1936
as Flora at Age 9 (uncredited)
Rainbow on the River
1936
as Lucille Layton
Anthony Adverse
1936
as Florence Udney
Easy to Take
1936
as Gwen Ferry
Les Misérables
1935
as Little Cosette (as Marilynne Knowlden)
Condemned to Live
1935
as Maria
David Copperfield
1935
as Agnes Wickfield as a Girl
As the Earth Turns
1934
as Esther
Imitation of Life
1934
as Jessie Pullman, Age 8 (uncredited)
Little Women
1933
as Meg’s Charge (uncredited)
The World Changes
1933
as Young Selma (uncredited)
The Conquerors
1932
as Frances Standish, as a child
Call Her Savage
1932
as Ruth as a Girl (Uncredited)
Husband's Holiday
1931
as Anne Boyd
The Cisco Kid
1931
as Annie Benton
Women Love Once
1931
as Janet Fields