Marilyn Knowlden (Actor)

Reviews of Marilyn Knowlden Movies

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Movies starring Marilyn Knowlden have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 65%.

Angels with Dirty Faces - released in 1938 - is Marilyn Knowlden's highest rated movie, with a score of 82% based on 352 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Marilyn Knowlden is Condemned to Live - released in 1935 - with a score of 39% based on 4 reviews.

Actor Biography

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), 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, Greta Garbo and Bette Davis.

College, marriage and four children followed. A composer and playwright as well as an actress, she wrote the music and lyrics for ten produced musicals, including three for which she also wrote the scripts. The latter included her musical, "I'm Gonna Get You in the Movies!" for which she drew heavily on her own early experience.

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." In 2011 Bear Manor published Marilyn Knowlden's autobiography "Little Girl in Big Pictures.

Marilyn Knowlden has acted in films with Mary Gordon, E. E. Clive, Betty Jane Graham and Bess Flowers.

Marilyn Knowlden has worked with these film directors: Mervyn LeRoy, George Cukor, Michael Curtiz and Irving Cummings.