Marsha Mae Jones Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Marcia Mae Jones was born on August 1, 1924, to an acting family. Her mother, Freda Jones, was an actress, and all three of her siblings - Margaret Jones, Macon Jones, and Marvin Jones - were child actors. But Marcia Mae had the most successful career, and she was the only one of her siblings to become a child star. She made her acting debut when ...
[on her family] I don't know if I could have done as well as my mother did had the tables been reversed, but she did love me way too much and it did cause trouble and jealousy with my brothers and sister. I can understand today how they must have felt. It was always, "Marcia Mae has to go to work, Marcia Mae's making the money".
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[on her education] Schooling brought me a lot of confusion when I was very small because I was still in public school. When I was in school I wanted to be back acting, and when I was acting I wanted to be back in public school. Later on we had schooling on the lot. For Shirley Temple it worked great, for Jane Withers it worked great, but I was one of those kids who didn't like school.
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[on her parents] I wasn't allowed to do what most kids were allowed to do. My mother pushed me, but my father was kind of in awe of me. He really didn't know quite what to do with it all. But my mother was definitely a motion picture mother. She loved the motion picture.
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Also acted under her birth name Marsha Mae Jones in The Cisco Kid TV series The Hypnotist Murder (1951) and Ghost Town (1952).
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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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She was originally cast to play Becky Thatcher in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938), but after a growth spurt, the studio thought she was too tall for the role and recast her as Mary Sawyer.
First husband was a lieutenant commander in the Merchant Marine. She had two boys. Second husband was TV writer Bill Davenport (Hogan's Heroes (1965)).
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The daughter of a persistent stage mother, Marcia developed personal and emotional problems later in life, which triggered a severe alcohol problem. She later received a degree in religious science and completely conquered her dependency.
$100,000
