Marilyn Knowlden
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday12 May 1926
Died15 September 2025 (age 99)
Place of birthOakland, California, USA
Known credits27
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…
Broadway Rhythm
1944 · Co-ed in Drugstore (uncredited)
All This, and Heaven Too
1940 · Marianna Van Horn (uncredited)
The Way of All Flesh
1940 · Julie Kriza
Hidden Power
1939 · Imogene
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938 · Laury - as a Child
Just Around the Corner
1938 · Gwendolyn (uncredited)
Marie Antoinette
1938 · Princesse Therese
Barefoot Boy
1938 · Julia Blaine
An Evening with Edgar Guest
1938 · Ann
Slave Ship
1937 · Girl
Rainbow on the River
1936 · Lucille Layton
A Woman Rebels
1936 · Flora at Age 9 (uncredited)
Easy to Take
1936 · Gwen Ferry
Anthony Adverse
1936 · Florence Udney
Show Boat
1936 · Kim as a Child
Condemned to Live
1935 · Maria
Les Misérables
1935 · Little Cosette (as Marilynne Knowlden)
David Copperfield
1935 · Agnes Wickfield as a Girl
Imitation of Life
1934 · Jessie Pullman, Age 8 (uncredited)
As the Earth Turns
1934 · Esther
The World Changes
1933 · Young Selma (uncredited)
Little Women
1933 · Meg’s Charge (uncredited)
Call Her Savage
1932 · Ruth as a Girl (Uncredited)
The Conquerors
1932 · Frances Standish, as a child
Husband's Holiday
1931 · Anne Boyd
The Cisco Kid
1931 · Annie Benton
Women Love Once
1931 · Janet Fields
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