Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
5/12/1926
Place of Birth
Oakland, California, USA
Also Known As
Marilynne Knowlden
Marilyn Knowlden
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...
Known For
Little Women
as Meg’s Charge (uncredited)
Broadway Rhythm
as Co-ed in Drugstore (uncredited)
Les Misérables
as Little Cosette (as Marilynne Knowlden)
Show Boat
as Kim as a Child
Barefoot Boy
as Julia Blaine
Slave Ship
as Girl
Angels with Dirty Faces
as Laury - as a Child
The Conquerors
as Frances Standish, as a child
Marie Antoinette
as Princesse Therese
Hidden Power
as Imogene
Just Around the Corner
as Gwendolyn (uncredited)
A Woman Rebels
as Flora at Age 9 (uncredited)
Rainbow on the River
as Lucille Layton
David Copperfield
as Agnes Wickfield as a Girl
Anthony Adverse
as Florence Udney
Imitation of Life
as Jessie Pullman, Age 8 (uncredited)
Call Her Savage
as Ruth as a Girl (Uncredited)
The Cisco Kid
as Annie Benton
The World Changes
as Young Selma (uncredited)
All This, and Heaven Too
as Marianna Van Horn (uncredited)