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...
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Show Boat
As Kim as a Child
Husband's Holiday
As Anne Boyd
Hidden Power
As Imogene
Just Around the Corner
As Gwendolyn (uncredited)
Marie Antoinette
As Princesse Therese
Les Misérables
As Little Cosette (as Marilynne Knowlden)
Barefoot Boy
As Julia Blaine
Little Women
As Amy's Classmate (uncredited)
Broadway Rhythm
As Co-ed in Drugstore (uncredited)
The Conquerors
As Frances Standish, as a child
As the Earth Turns
As Esther
Condemned to Live
As Maria
An Evening with Edgar Guest
As Ann
Slave Ship
As Girl
The Cisco Kid
As Annie Benton
Angels with Dirty Faces
As Laury - as a Child
A Woman Rebels
As Flora at Age 9 (uncredited)
Rainbow on the River
As Lucille Layton
All This, and Heaven Too
As Marianna Van Horn (uncredited)
David Copperfield
As Agnes Wickfield as a Girl
The Way of All Flesh
As Julie Kriza
Anthony Adverse
As Florence Udney
Easy to Take
As Gwen Ferry
Imitation of Life
As Jessie Pullman, Age 8 (uncredited)
Call Her Savage
As Ruth as a Girl (Uncredited)