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Marilynne Knowlden
Marilyn Knowlden
Acting
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
Filmography
Movies
Broadway Rhythm
as Co-ed in Drugstore (uncredited)
All This, and Heaven Too
as Marianna Van Horn (uncredited)
The Way of All Flesh
as Julie Kriza
Hidden Power
as Imogene
Angels with Dirty Faces
as Laury - as a Child
Marie Antoinette
as Princesse Therese
Just Around the Corner
as Gwendolyn (uncredited)
Barefoot Boy
as Julia Blaine
An Evening with Edgar Guest
as Ann
Slave Ship
as Girl
