Marilyn Knowlden - 16691

American child star. 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 was in Greta Garbo's 1931 film, Susan Lenox but her scenes were deleted in the final cut. Knowlden 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 Best Production of the Year and performed with such distinguished actors as Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power, and Bette Davis Knowlden's last film was Broadway Rhythm (1944), in which she played an uncredited role as a “Co-ed in Drugstore” College, marriage and four children followed. After a 50-year hiatus, Marilyn returned to acting in 1994. She appeared in over 20 plays and musicals in San Diego County, including the role of Aunt Abby in "Arsenic and Old Lace," the leads in "Sorry, Wrong Number" and "Quilters," and Prof. Higgins' mother in "My Fair Lady." This is a pretty, modern black and white reproduction (8" x 6") of an early publicity photograph, signed across the image in later years in blue ink. In very good condition.