Actor
Marilyn Knowlden
May 12, 1926 · 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.
Notable work
Often works with
Arthur Hohl
4 titles together
Show Boat, As the Earth Turns, Slave Ship
Edna May Oliver
3 titles together
Little Women, David Copperfield, The Conquerors
Elizabeth Allan
3 titles together
David Copperfield, A Woman Rebels, Slave Ship
Fritz Leiber
3 titles together
All This, and Heaven Too, Anthony Adverse, The Way of All Flesh
Donald Cook
3 titles together
Show Boat, The World Changes, The Conquerors
J. Farrell MacDonald
3 titles together
Show Boat, Slave Ship, Barefoot Boy
Full filmography · 27
Broadway Rhythm
as Co-ed in Drugstore (uncredited)
1944
All This, and Heaven Too
as Marianna Van Horn (uncredited)
19407.2
The Way of All Flesh
as Julie Kriza
1940
Hidden Power
as Imogene
1939
Angels with Dirty Faces
as Laury - as a Child
19387.5
Just Around the Corner
as Gwendolyn (uncredited)
1938
Marie Antoinette
as Princesse Therese
19386.6
Barefoot Boy
as Julia Blaine
1938
An Evening with Edgar Guest
as Ann
1938
Slave Ship
as Girl
1937
Rainbow on the River
as Lucille Layton
1936
A Woman Rebels
as Flora at Age 9 (uncredited)
1936