Marilyn Knowlden

Marilyn Knowlden

Known for

Acting

Born

May 12, 1926

Birthplace

Oakland, California, USA

Died

September 15, 2025 (aged 99)

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 such distinguished actors as Fredric March, Charles...

Best known work

Angels with Dirty Faces
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938
Little Women
Little Women
1933
Imitation of Life
Imitation of Life
1934
David Copperfield
David Copperfield
1935
All This, and Heaven Too
All This, and Heaven Too
1940
Les Misérables
Les Misérables
1935
Show Boat
Show Boat
1936
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette
1938
Anthony Adverse
Anthony Adverse
1936
Call Her Savage
Call Her Savage
1932

Filmography

  1. 1944

    Broadway Rhythm

    as Co-ed in Drugstore (uncredited)

  2. 1940

    All This, and Heaven Too

    as Marianna Van Horn (uncredited)

  3. 1940

    The Way of All Flesh

    as Julie Kriza

  4. 1939

    Hidden Power

    as Imogene

  5. 1938

    Angels with Dirty Faces

    as Laury - as a Child

  6. 1938

    Just Around the Corner

    as Gwendolyn (uncredited)

  7. 1938

    Marie Antoinette

    as Princesse Therese

  8. 1938

    Barefoot Boy

    as Julia Blaine

  9. 1938

  10. 1937

    Slave Ship

    as Girl

  11. 1936

    Rainbow on the River

    as Lucille Layton

  12. 1936

    A Woman Rebels

    as Flora at Age 9 (uncredited)

  13. 1936

    Easy to Take

    as Gwen Ferry

  14. 1936

    Anthony Adverse

    as Florence Udney

  15. 1936

    Show Boat

    as Kim as a Child

  16. 1935

  17. 1935

    Les Misérables

    as Little Cosette (as Marilynne Knowlden)

  18. 1935

    David Copperfield

    as Agnes Wickfield as a Girl

  19. 1934

    Imitation of Life

    as Jessie Pullman, Age 8 (uncredited)

  20. 1934

  21. 1933

    The World Changes

    as Young Selma (uncredited)

  22. 1933

    Little Women

    as Meg’s Charge (uncredited)

  23. 1932

    Call Her Savage

    as Ruth as a Girl (Uncredited)

  24. 1932

    The Conquerors

    as Frances Standish, as a child

  25. 1931

    Husband's Holiday

    as Anne Boyd

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