Marilyn Knowlden

Actor

Born: May 12, 1926
Died: September 15, 2025 (age 99)
From: Oakland, California, USA

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…

Filmography (27)

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