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Edith Marilyn Fellows was an American actress who became a child star in the 1930s. Best known for playing orphans and street urchins, Fellows was an expressive actress with a good singing voice. She made her screen debut at the age of five in Charley Chase's film short Movie Night (1929). Her first credited role in a feature film was The Rider of Death Valley (1932). By 1935, she had appeared in over twenty films. Her performance opposite Claudette Colbert and Melvyn Douglas in She Married Her Boss (1935) won her a seven-year contract with Columbia Pictures, the first such contract offered to a child.
Birth Name
Edith Marilyn Fellows
Born
Sunday, 20 May 1923
Died
Sunday, 26 June 2011
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man | 1999 | |
The Pursuit of Happiness | Mrs. Wilcox | 1995 |
ER | Sadie Hubbell | 1994 |
In the Mood | Dorothy / Judy's Mother | 1987 |
The Best Times | Supervisor | 1985 |
Mr. Belvedere | Woman | 1985 |
The Hills Have Eyes Part II | Mrs. Wilson | 1985 |
Riptide | Helen Howell | 1984 |
Grace Kelly | Edith Head | 1983 |
St. Elsewhere | Mrs. Sabin | 1982 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man | 1999 | |
The Pursuit of Happiness | Mrs. Wilcox | 1995 |
ER | Sadie Hubbell | 1994 |
In the Mood | Dorothy / Judy's Mother | 1987 |
The Best Times | Supervisor | 1985 |
Mr. Belvedere | Woman | 1985 |
The Hills Have Eyes Part II | Mrs. Wilson | 1985 |
Riptide | Helen Howell | 1984 |
Grace Kelly | Edith Head | 1983 |
St. Elsewhere | Mrs. Sabin | 1982 |
Between Two Brothers | Victim's Wife | 1982 |
Hollywood's Children | Self | 1982 |
Simon & Simon | Telephone Operator | 1981 |
Father Murphy | Louise Walker | 1981 |
Cagney & Lacey | Mrs. Isbecki | 1981 |
The Brady Brides | Sylvia Berg | 1981 |
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell | Self (clip from "Pennies from Heaven") | 1968 |
Mirage | Minor Role | 1965 |
Lilith | Patient | 1964 |
Hollywood and the Stars | Patsy Smith (clip from Pennies from Heaven (1936)) | 1963 |
When Comedy Was King | edited from 'Movie Night' | 1960 |
Your Chevrolet Showroom | Self | 1953 |
Tales of Tomorrow | Susan | 1951 |
Wonderful Town, U.S.A. | Self | 1951 |
Musical Comedy Time | Jane Piper | 1950 |
The Benny Rubin Show | Self | 1949 |
Studio One | Miss Trant | 1948 |
We, the People | Self - Actress | 1948 |
Criminal Investigator | Ellen Grey / Ellen | 1942 |
Stardust on the Sage | Judy Drew | 1942 |
Heart of the Rio Grande | Connie Lane | 1942 |
Girls' Town | Sue Norman | 1942 |
Her First Beau | Milly Lou | 1941 |
Her First Romance | Linda Strong | 1940 |
Nobody's Children | Pat | 1940 |
Five Little Peppers in Trouble | Polly Pepper | 1940 |
Out West with the Peppers | Polly Pepper | 1940 |
Five Little Peppers at Home | Polly Pepper | 1940 |
Music in My Heart | Mary / Mary O'Malley | 1940 |
Pride of the Blue Grass | Midge Griner | 1939 |
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew | Polly Pepper | 1939 |
The Little Adventuress | Pinky Horton | 1938 |
City Streets | Winnie Brady | 1938 |
Little Miss Roughneck | Foxine LaRue | 1938 |
Life Begins with Love | Dodie Martin | 1937 |
Pennies from Heaven | Patsy Smith | 1936 |
Tugboat Princess | 'Princess' Judy | 1936 |
And So They Were Married | Brenda Farnham | 1936 |
One-Way Ticket | Ellen | 1935 |
She Married Her Boss | Annabel Barclay | 1935 |
The Keeper of the Bees | Little Scout / Jean Marie Meredith | 1935 |
Dinky | Sally | 1935 |
Black Fury | Agnes Shemanski | 1935 |
Kid Millions | Little Girl in Ice Cream Number | 1934 |
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch | Australia Wiggs | 1934 |
She Was a Lady | Child | 1934 |
Jane Eyre | Adele Rochester | 1934 |
His Greatest Gamble | Alice - as a Child / Alice (as a child) | 1934 |
Cross Streets | Little Sister | 1934 |
The Life of Vergie Winters | Child Extra in 1910 Sequence | 1934 |
This Side of Heaven | Felicia - Minister's Daughter | 1934 |
Two Alone | Rogers' Daughter | 1934 |
Fugitive Lovers | Girl on School Bus | 1934 |
Girl Without a Room | Child | 1933 |
The Power and the Glory | Student | 1933 |
Mush and Milk | Orphan / Edith | 1933 |
The Devil's Brother | Girl | 1933 |
Penguin Pool Murder | Little Girl at Aquarium | 1932 |
Law and Lawless | Betty Kelley | 1932 |
Birthday Blues | Girl with string in mouth | 1932 |
Once in a Lifetime | Flower Girl in Movie Wedding Scene | 1932 |
Divorce in the Family | Little Girl with Kite | 1932 |
The Rider of Death Valley | Betty Joyce | 1932 |
Emma | Gypsy as a Child | 1932 |
Wicked | Child | 1931 |
Huckleberry Finn | Schoolgirl | 1931 |
Daddy Long Legs | Orphan | 1931 |
Shivering Shakespeare | Girls Scared of Elephant | 1930 |
Madame X | Child at Puppet Show | 1929 |