Marilyn’s Movies
Studio: Paramount
(Director: Edward Goodman)
Played Janet Fields, as the 4 year daughter of Paul Lukas and Eleanor Boardman.
From unpublished story “The Silver City”
Studio: Fox
(Director: Irving Cummings, also former director of silent version)
With Warner Baxter & Edmund Lowe. Played Annie, daughter of Nora Lane.
Studio: Paramount
(Director: Robert Milton)
Played Anne, daughter of Vivian Osborne & Clive Brook.
Studio: MGM
(Director: Robert Z. Leonard)
With Clark Gable & Greta Garbo. who played Susan Lenox, as her Governess,
taught Marilyn geography lessons. (Scene cut in later releases.)
Studio: Fox
(Director: Allan Dwan)
With Elissa Landi, Victor McLaglen & Una Merkel. (In uncredited role.)
Studio: Paramount
(Director: Guthrie McClintic)
With Ruth Chatterton, Ivor Novello and Jill Esmond
1931
Studio: RKO
(Director: William A. Wellman)
(Producer: David O. Selznick)
Played young Frances, one of the twins and daughter of Richard Dix & Ann Harding.
aka: Love Starved, and also Veneer
Studio: RKO
(Director: William Seiter)
(Exec Producer: David O. Selznick)
With Helen Twelvetrees, Eric Linden & Arline Judge.
Studio: Fox
(Director: John Francis Dillon)
With Clara Bow & Thelma Todd.
Played Clara Bow’s mother, Ruth, as a young pioneer crossing the plains in a covered wagon.
One of the few “talkies” that Clara Bow was in and her next to last film.
Studio: Fox
(Director: David Butler)
With James Dunn, Boots Mallory & El Brendel.
Studio: Warner Bros.
(Exec Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck)
With Loretta Young, Eric Linden & Aline MacManon.
1932
1932
Vitana Mix - Short Subject
Studio: Independent
1934
White King - 3 Short Subjects
Studio: E.B. Taylor
(Writer & Producer: Photoplay)
Played the official “White King Girl”
1939
An Evening With Edgar Guest
Studio: Jam Handy
Filmed in Detroit.
John Deere Short Subject
Studio: Independent
Snickerty-Nick And The Giant
Studio: Independent
(Writer & Producer: Julia Ellsworth Ford)
A pioneering color
Formerly: Five Cents a Glass
Studio: Fox
(Director & Screenplay: Rian James)
With Charles “Buddy” Rogers, Marian Nixon & Frank Morgan.
aka: The Road To Heaven, and also I Am Guilty of Love
Studio: Fox
(Director: John Francis Dillon)
With Ralph Morgan & Boots Mallory.
Studio: 1st National Pictures/Warner Bros.
(Director: Roy Del Ruth)
With Warren William, Allen Jenkins & Constance Cummings.
Studio: RKO
(Director: George Cukor)
(Original Music: Max Steiner)
1 Oscar Won: Best Writing, Adaptation
2 Oscar Nominations: Best Picture
Also Best Director
With Katharine Hepburn, Frances Dee & Joan Bennett.
Played one of King children and Amy’s classmate, taught by Frances Dee.
Studio: RKO
(Director: Lowell Sherman)
1 Oscar Won: Best Actress
With Katharine Hepburn & Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Played child actress in Prologue.
(Entire Prologue, with Katharine Hepburn and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., omitted in later release.)
Studio: 1st National Pictures/Warner Bros.
(Director: Mervin LeRoy)
With Mickey Rooney, Paul Muni, Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee, & Mary Astor.
Played Selma, as a child. (uncredited)
aka: Culbertson Featurettes
Studio: RKO
With Ely Culbertson, bridge expert.
Studio: Warner Bros.
(Director: Alfred E. Green)
With Jean Muir, Donald Woods, Russell Hardie, David Durand, & Wally
Albright. Played Esther and sweetheart of David Durand.
Studio: Universal
(Director: John Stahl)
(Sound Director: Theodore Soderberg)
3 Oscar Nominations: Best Picture
Also Best Asst Director, & Best Sound, Recording
2005 Award: Natl. Film Preservation Board
With Claudette Colbert, Warren William, & Rochelle Hudson. Played Jessie Pullman, at age 8, Claudette Colbert’s daughter. (Baby Jane Quigley played Jessie as a baby, and Rochelle Hudson played her as an adult.)
aka: The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David
Copperfield the Younger
Studio: MGM
(Director: George Cukor)
(Screenplay: Hugh Walpole)
3 Oscar Nominations: Best Picture
Also Best Asst Director & Best Film Editing
With W. C. Fields, Freddie Bartholemew, Frank Lawton, Edna May Oliver,
Basil Rathbone, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O’Sullivan & Hugh Walpole.
Played Agnes, daughter of Mr. Wickfield (Lewis Stone) who is the girl
David eventually marries. Also played theme song on the piano.
Studio: 20th Century Fox/United Artists
(Director: Richard Boleslawski)
(Producer: Darryl Zanuck )
(Original Music: Alfred Newman)
4 Oscar Nominations: Best Picture
Also Best Asst. Director, Best Cinematography & Best Film Editing
With Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Rochelle Hudson, John Carradine &
Cedric Hardwicke. Played Little Cosette opposite Fredric March (Jean
Valjean.) Screenwriter Hugh Walpole adapted script to an 8-year-old,
rather than 13-year-old Cosette.
Studio: 20th Century Fox
(Director: Richard Boleslawski)
With Lawrence Tibbett, Virginia Bruce, Cesar Romero, Christian Rub, Walter
Brennan & Alice Brady. Played little girl in tea room.
Studio: Invincible
(Director: Frank Strayer)
With Ralph Morgan. Played Maria, the Young Girl.
aka: Public Nuisance No. 1
Studio: 20th Century Fox
With Irvin S. Cobb, Slim Summerville Dean Jagger & Jane Withers as Pepper Jolly.
Formerly: Portrait of a Rebel
Studio: RKO
(Director: Mark Sandrich)
With Katharine Hepburn, Van Heflin, & Herbert Marshall, Played Katharine
Hepburn’s daughter, Flora, age 9.
aka: Right in Your Lap
Studio: Paramount
(Director: Glenn Tryon)
(Producer: Adolph Zukor)
With Marsha Hunt & Carl Sweitzer (aka Alfalfa)
Played Gwen Ferry, a “radio entertainer,” and sang solo “Cross Patch.”
Studio: Universal
(Director: James Whale)
1996 Award: Natl. Film Preservation Board
With Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan and played Irene Dunne & Allan Jones’
daughter Kim, as a child.
Studio: Warner Bros.
(Director: Mervyn LeRoy & Michael Curtiz - uncredited)
4 Oscars Won: Best Actress in Supporting Role, Best Film Editing, Best
Cinematography, Best Music & Score
3 Oscar Nominations: Best Picture.
Best Art Direction, Best Asst Director
With Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland Billy Mauch, Claude Rains, Akim
Tamiroff & Scotty Beckett.Played Florence Udney, who would become
Anthony’s eventual bride.
Later released as Down In New Orleans
Studio: RKO
(Director: Kurt Neumann)
With Charles Butterworth,, May Robson, Alan Mowbray, the Hall Johnson Choir & Louise Beavers. Played Lucille Layton, Bonita Hume’s daughter,
opposite Bobby Breen, and played the piano.
Studio: 20th Century Fox
(Director: Tay Garnett)
(Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck)
With Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Elizabeth Allan & Mickey Rooney, Played
girl who christened the ship.
Studio: MGM
(Director: W.S. VanDyke II)
3 Oscar Nominations: Best Actress in Leading Role, Best Actor in Supporting
Role, Best Art Direction & Best Music, Original Score
With Tyrone Power & Robert Morley and played Norma Shearer’s daughter,
Princess Théresè.
Studio: Warner Bros.
(Director: Michael Curtiz)
3 Oscar Nominations: Best Actor in Leading Role, Best Director & Best
Writing, Original Story
With James Cagney, Pat O’Brien & Humphrey Bogart. Played Laury (Anne Sheridan later was the adult) as a child.
Studio: Monogram
(Director: Karl Brown)
Played girlfriend of Jackie Moran, Julia Blaine.
aka: Lucky Penny
Studio: 20th Century Fox
(Director: Irving Cummings)
With Shirley Temple, Joan Davis, Charles Farrell.
Played Gwendolyn.
Studio: Columbia
(Director: Lew Collins)
(Producer: Larry Darmour - uncredited)
With Jack Holt, Dickie Moore. Played Imogene.
Studio: Warner Bros.
(Director: Anatole Litvak)
3 Oscar Nominations: Best Picture
Best Actress in Supporting Role & Best Cinematography/B&W
With Bette Davis and Charles Boyer.
Played one of Bette’s students, Marianna Van Horn.
Studio: Paramount
(Director: Louis King)
At age 14, played Julie Kriza, 19-year old daughter of Gladys George & Akim Tamiroff.
Studio: 20th Century Fox
(Director: John Cromwell)
With Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney & George Sanders.
Played Isabel as a Girl in Prologue. (Prologue cut in later releases.)
Studio: MGM
(Director: Roy Del Ruth)
With George Murphy, Lena Horne, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Tommy
Dorsey & Gloria DeHaven. Played co-ed in drugstore (uncredited & cut
from current release.)
Other Films Of Marilyn Knowlden
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1937
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