Edith Fellows | |
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Born | Boston, Massachusetts |
May 20, 1923
Died | June 26, 2011 Woodland Hills, California |
(aged 88)
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1929–1995 |
Spouse | Freddie Fields (m. 1946–1956; divorced) |
Children | Kathy Fields |
Edith Marilyn Fellows (May 20, 1923 – June 26, 2011)[1] was an American actress who began her professional career at age 6.[2]
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Personal life
When she was a year old, she and her father and grandmother moved to Charlotte, North Carolina. She appeared in 70 films and television shows between 1929 and 1995.
After a divorce, nervous breakdown, and stunning emotional recovery, Fellows was featured on the Ralph Edwards TV show This Is Your Life in the 1950s. Fellows began acting again in character roles in the 1960s. In 1983, she portrayed costumer designer Edith Head in a television film on the life of actress Grace Kelly.
In 1985, producer/director Jackie Cooper, himself a former child actor who preceded Fellows in death by only a few weeks, announced plans to film a television movie on her life, but the project never came to fruition.[2]
Death
Fellows died of natural causes at the Motion Picture Country Home in 2011, at the age of 88.[3]
Filmography
- Features
- Madame X (1929)
- Cimarron (1931)
- Daddy Long Legs (1931)
- Huckleberry Finn (1931)
- Emma (1932)
- The Rider of Death Valley (1932)
- Divorce in the Family (1932)
- Law and Lawless (1932)
- Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
- The Devil's Brother (1933)
- Girl Without a Room (1933)
- Two Alone (1934)
- This Side of Heaven (1934)
- The Life of Vergie Winters (1934)
- Cross Streets (1934)
- His Greatest Gamble (1934)
- Jane Eyre (1934)
- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)
- Kid Millions (1934)
- Black Fury (1935)
- Dinky (1935)
- Keeper of the Bees (1935)
- She Married Her Boss (1935)
- One-Way Ticket (1935)
- And So They Were Married (1936)
- Tugboat Princess (1936)
- Pennies from Heaven (1936)
- Life Begins with Love (1937)
- Little Miss Roughneck (1938)
- City Streets (1938)
- The Little Adventuress (1938)
- Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1939)
- Pride of the Blue Grass (1939)
- Music in My Heart (1940)
- Five Little Peppers at Home (1940)
- Out West with the Peppers (1940)
- Five Little Peppers in Trouble (1940)
- Nobody's Children (1940)
- Her First Romance (1940)
- Her First Beau (1941)
- Girls' Town (1942)
- Heart of the Rio Grande (1942)
- Criminal Investigator (1942)
- Lilith (1964)
- The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1985)
- In the Mood (1987)
- I Used to Be in Pictures (2000) (documentary)
- Short films
- Movie Night (1929)
- Shivering Shakespeare (1930)
- Birthday Blues (1932)
- Mush and Milk (1933)
- Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4 (1942)
References
- ^ Margalit Fox (July 2, 2011). "Edith Fellows, a 1930s Child Star Trailed by Dickensian Woes, Dies at 88". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/arts/edith-fellows-child-star-shadowed-by-dickensian-troubles-dies-at-88.html?ref=deathsobituaries.
- ^ a b "Edith Fellows". NY Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/person/23038/Edith-Fellows. Retrieved 2011-07-02.
- ^ Notice of death of Edith Fellows in Variety