Edith Fellows
Edythe Fellows
- Туған күні:
- 1923-05-20
- Қайтыс болған күні:
- 2011-06-26
- Туған жері:
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Өмірбаяны
Edith Fellows was born on May 20, 1923, in Boston, Massachusetts. When she was a year old, she and her father and grandmother moved to Charlotte, North Carolina. As a toddler, Edith was pigeon-toed and had trouble walking, and one doctor suggested that dance lessons might cure this condition. At age four, Edith entered Henderson's School of Dance, where she was spotted by a man claiming to be a talent scout, who told her grandmother that he could get Edith into show business for a fifty-dollar fee. The dance school raised the money, but when Edith and her grandmother arrived in Hollywood, they discovered that the address the man had given them did not exist, and they realized he was a fraud. Stranded in Hollywood with no means to return to North Carolina, Edith's grandmother began doing housework to earn a living. While she worked, she left Edith with a neighbor and her young son. One day Edith was taken along when the neighbor's son had an audition for the film Movie Night (1929), and she ended up getting the part. Although she never become a child star, Edith appeared in many popular films of the 1930s, most notably Pennies from Heaven (1936). She also proved herself to be a very versatile actress, playing roles ranging from a spoiled rich girl, as in Heart of the Rio Grande (1942), to a poor orphan girl, as in Pennies from Heaven. Edith was even given her own series, The Five Little Peppers, while under contract to Columbia, and she made four of the Pepper films (the first was Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1939)) in two years. Between 1929 and 1954, Edith appeared in some fifty films, mostly in juvenile roles due to her short 4' 10" stature. But her career suddenly slowed down in the mid-1950s. Between 1955 and 1980, she appeared in only one film, Lilith (1964), in which she had a bit part. During this time, Edith chose to focus on her family life; she had married producer Freddie Fields in 1946, and their only child, daughter Kathy, was born in 1947. But Edith and Fields divorced in 1955, and the end of her marriage, coupled with other factors, caused Edith to have a nervous breakdown. She recovered, and in 1981, she returned to acting in numerous supporting roles on television. In 1985, fellow former child actor Jackie Cooper announced plans to make a TV movie based on Edith's life, but this project never happened.
Фильмографиясы
Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man
1999
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Self
Под настроение
1987
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Mrs. Long, Judy's Mother
У холмов есть глаза 2
1985
TMDb 4.3 / 10
Mrs. Wilson
Grace Kelly
1983
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Edith Head
Between Two Brothers
1982
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Victim's Wife
Hollywood’s Children
1982
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Self
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
1968
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Self (clip from "Pennies from Heaven")
Лилит
1964
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Patient (uncredited)
Criminal Investigator
1942
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Ellen
Stardust on the Sage
1942
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Judy Drew
Heart of the Rio Grande
1942
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Connie Lane
Girls' Town
1942
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Sue Norman
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4
1942
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Self
Her First Beau
1941
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Milly Lou
Her First Romance
1940
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Linda Strong
Nobody's Children
1940
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Pat
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
1940
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Polly Pepper
Out West with the Peppers
1940
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Polly Pepper
Five Little Peppers at Home
1940
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Polly Pepper
Музыка в сердце моём
1940
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Mary O'Malley
Pride of the Blue Grass
1939
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Midge Griner
Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
1939
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Polly Pepper
The Little Adventuress
1938
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Pinky Horton
City Streets
1938
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Winnie Brady
Little Miss Roughneck
1938
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Foxine LaRue
Life Begins with Love
1937
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Dodie Martin
Pennies from Heaven
1936
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Patsy Smith
Tugboat Princess
1936
TMDb 8.0 / 10
'Princess' Judy
And So They Were Married
1936
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Brenda Farnham
One Way Ticket
1935
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Ellen
She Married Her Boss
1935
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Annabel Barclay
The Keeper of the Bees
1935
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Jean Marie Meredith / Little Scout
Dinky
1935
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Sally
Kid Millions
1934
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Little Girl in Ice Cream Number (uncredited)
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1934
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Australia Wiggs
Jane Eyre
1934
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Adele Rochester
His Greatest Gamble
1934
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Alice (as a child)
Cross Streets
1934
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Little Sister
This Side of Heaven
1934
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Felicia - Minister's Daughter (uncredited)
Two Alone
1934
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Rogers' Daughter (uncredited)
Mush and Milk
1933
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Edith
The Penguin Pool Murder
1932
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Little Girl at Aquarium (uncredited)
Law and Lawless
1932
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Betty Kelley
Грустный день рождения
1932
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Girl with String in Mouth
Divorce In The Family
1932
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Little Girl with Kite
The Rider of Death Valley
1932
TMDb 8.5 / 10
Betty Joyce
Эмма
1932
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Gypsy as a Child (uncredited)
Huckleberry Finn
1931
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Daddy Long Legs
1931
TMDb 4.7 / 10
Orphan (uncredited)
Second Hand Kisses
1931
Orphan girl
Симаррон
1931
TMDb 5.5 / 10
(uncredited)
Страсти вокруг Шекспира
1930
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Girls Scared of Elephant
Madame X
1929
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Child at Puppet Show (uncredited)
Movie Night
1929
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Daughter