Edith Marilyn Fellows Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Edith Marilyn Fellows (May 20, 1923 – June 26, 2011) 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.Fellows appeared in a series of leading roles for Columbia, including Tugboat Princess (1936), Little Miss Roughneck (1938), and The Little Adventuress (1938). Her performance as the precocious orphan alongside Bing Crosby in Pennies from Heaven (1936) won her critical acclaim. In 1942, she appeared in two Gene Autry films, Heart of the Rio Grande and Stardust on the Sage, which highlighted her fine singing voice. Her acting career was interrupted in the 1940s by serious personal problems, her own life becoming more Dickensian than the characters she portrayed on screen. In the 1980s, she returned to acting with sporadic roles in television series. Between 1929 and 1995, Fellows appeared in over seventy films and television programs.
[Referring to onstage moment in 1950s when she was first paralyzed by stage fright] I saw the spotlight on me, and I thought, 'Oh, my God, why doesn't it go away?.'
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Retired and lives at the Motion Picture Home in Woodland Hills, California. [January 2005]
She remained friends with her three-time co-star Lois Wilson, whom she greatly admired.
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Interviewed in "Growing Up on the Set: Interviews with 39 Former Child Actors of Classic Film and Television," by Tom Goldrup and Jim Goldrup (McFarland, 2002).
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During the 1940s, Edith toured as the lead in "Janie," a road show named after the character she portrayed.
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Her only child, daughter Kathy Fields, was born in January 1947.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Pursuit of Happiness
1995
TV Series
ER
1995
TV Series
Sadie Hubbell
In the Mood
1987
Dorothy Long, Judy's Mother
Mr. Belvedere
1987
TV Series
Woman
Cagney & Lacey
1982-1986
TV Series
Mrs. Isbecki
The Best Times
1985
TV Series
Supervisor
Riptide
1984
TV Series
Helen Howell
The Hills Have Eyes Part II
1984
Mrs. Wilson
Happy Endings
1983/I
TV Movie
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
TV Series
Grace Kelly
1983
TV Movie
Edith Head
Father Murphy
1982
TV Series
Louise Walker
St. Elsewhere
1982
TV Series
Mrs. Sabin
Simon & Simon
1982
TV Series
Telephone Operator
Between Two Brothers
1982
TV Movie
Victim's Wife
The Brady Brides
1981
TV Series
Sylvia Berg
Mirage
1965
Minor Role (uncredited)
Lilith
1964
Patient (uncredited)
Medallion Theatre
1954
TV Series
Tales of Tomorrow
1951-1953
TV Series
Susan
Armstrong Circle Theatre
1952
TV Series
Studio One in Hollywood
1952
TV Series
Miss Trant
Musical Comedy Time
1950
TV Series
Jane Piper
The Benny Rubin Show
1949
TV Series
Criminal Investigator
1942
Ellen Grey
Stardust on the Sage
1942
Judy Drew
Heart of the Rio Grande
1942
Connie Lane
Girls' Town
1942
Sue Norman
Her First Beau
1941
Milly Lou
Her First Romance
1940
Linda Strong
Nobody's Children
1940
Pat
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
1940
Polly Pepper
Out West with the Peppers
1940
Polly Pepper
Five Little Peppers at Home
1940
Polly Pepper
Music in My Heart
1940
Mary
Pride of the Blue Grass
1939
Midge Griner
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
1939
Polly Pepper
The Little Adventuress
1938
Pinky Horton
City Streets
1938
Winnie Brady
Little Miss Roughneck
1938
Foxine LaRue
Life Begins with Love
1937
Dodie Martin
Pennies from Heaven
1936
Patsy Smith
Tugboat Princess
1936
'Princess' Judy
And So They Were Married
1936
Brenda Farnham
One-Way Ticket
1935
Ellen
She Married Her Boss
1935
Annabel Barclay
The Keeper of the Bees
1935
Jean Marie Meredith / Little Scout
Dinky
1935
Sally
Black Fury
1935
Agnes Shemanski (uncredited)
Kid Millions
1934
Little Girl in Ice Cream Number (uncredited)
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1934
Australia Wiggs
She Was a Lady
1934
Child (uncredited)
Jane Eyre
1934
Adele Rochester
His Greatest Gamble
1934
Alice - as a Child
Cross Streets
1934
Little Sister (as Edythe Fellows)
The Life of Vergie Winters
1934
Child Extra in 1910 Sequence (uncredited)
This Side of Heaven
1934
Felicia - Minister's Daughter (uncredited)
Two Alone
1934
Rogers' Daughter (uncredited)
Girl Without a Room
1933
Child (uncredited)
The Power and the Glory
1933
Edie - Pupil (uncredited)
Mush and Milk
1933
Short
Orphan (as Our Gang)
The Devil's Brother
1933
Girl (uncredited)
Penguin Pool Murder
1932
Little Girl at Aquarium (uncredited)
Law and Lawless
1932
Betty Kelley
Birthday Blues
1932
Short
Girl with string in mouth
Once in a Lifetime
1932
Flower girl in movie wedding scene (uncredited)
Divorce in the Family
1932
Little Girl with Kite (uncredited)
The Rider of Death Valley
1932
Betty Joyce
Emma
1932
Gypsy as a Child (uncredited)
Wicked
1931
Child (uncredited)
Huckleberry Finn
1931
Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Daddy Long Legs
1931
Orphan (uncredited)
Second Hand Kisses
1931
Short
Orphan girl (uncredited)
Cimarron
1931
uncredited
Knights Before Christmas
1930
Short
Little girl (uncredited)
Shivering Shakespeare
1930
Short
Girls Scared of Elephant (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Madame X
1929
Child at Puppet Show (uncredited)
Movie Night
1929
Short
The Chase Daughter
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Stardust on the Sage
1942
performer: "Perfidia" 1939, "When the Roses Bloom Again" 1942, "I'll Never Let You Go, Little Darlin'" 1943? - uncredited
Her First Romance
1940
performer: "Ochi Tchornya", "Don Giovanni", "Star of Love" - uncredited
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
1940
performer: "The Blue Danube Waltz, Opus 314" 1867 - uncredited
Five Little Peppers at Home
1940
performer: "Be Firm and Be Faithful" - uncredited
Music in My Heart
1940
"Punchinello" 1939 / performer: "A Bird in a Gilded Cage" 1900 - uncredited
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
1939
performer: "Happy Birthday to You" 1893, "Wiegenlied Brahms' Lullaby, Op. 49, No. 4" 1868 - uncredited
Little Miss Roughneck
1938
performer: "As Long as I Love", "The Wren", "La Golodrina", "Extract from Verdi's 'Rigoletto'"
Pennies from Heaven
1936
performer: "So Do I" 1936, "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" uncredited
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1934
performer: "Beulah Land" 1876 - uncredited
Jane Eyre
1934
performer: "Bridal Chorus", "My Bonnie"
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
I Used to Be in Pictures
2000
Documentary
Herself
Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man
1999
TV Movie documentary
This Is Your Life
1971
TV Series
Herself
Wonderful Town, U.S.A.
1951
TV Series
Herself
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4
1942
Documentary short
Herself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
1968
Herself (clip from "Pennies from Heaven") (uncredited)