1923-05-12 ( 101 years old ) in Oakland, California, USA
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 such distinguished actors as Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power, Greta Garbo and Bette Davis.
College, marriage and four children followed. A composer and playwright as well as an actress, she wrote the music and lyrics for ten produced musicals, including three for which she also wrote the scripts. The latter included her musical, "I'm Gonna Get You in the Movies!" for which she drew heavily on her own early experience.
After a 50-year hiatus, Marilyn returned to acting in 1994. She appeared in over 20 plays and musicals in San Diego County, including the role of Aunt Abby in "Arsenic and Old Lace," the leads in "Sorry, Wrong Number" and "Quilters," and Prof. Higgins' mother in "My Fair Lady." In 2011 Bear Manor published Marilyn Knowlden's autobiography "Little Girl in Big Pictures."
Movies
Broadway Rhythm
1944-01-19
All This, and Heaven Too
1940-07-05
The Way of All Flesh
1940-07-05
Hidden Power
1939-09-07
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938-11-26
Just Around the Corner
1938-11-11
Marie Antoinette
1938-08-26
Barefoot Boy
1938-08-03
An Evening with Edgar Guest
1938-01-01
Slave Ship
1937-06-16
Rainbow on the River
1936-12-18
A Woman Rebels
1936-11-06
Easy to Take
1936-11-06
Anthony Adverse
1936-08-26
Show Boat
1936-05-17
Condemned to Live
1935-09-15
Les Misérables
1935-04-20
David Copperfield
1935-01-18
Imitation of Life
1934-11-23
As the Earth Turns
1934-02-14
Little Women
1933-11-24
Call Her Savage
1932-11-24
The Conquerors
1932-11-18
Husband's Holiday
1931-12-19
The Cisco Kid
1931-11-01
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