Edith Fellows
Biografia
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.
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man
Film • 1999
jako Self
Ostry dyżur
Serial • 1994
jako Sadie Hubbell
Kochaj mnie dzieciaku
Film • 1987
jako Mrs. Long, Judy's Mother
Wzgórza mają oczy II
Film • 1985
jako Mrs. Wilson
Grace Kelly
Film • 1983
jako Edith Head
St. Elsewhere
Serial • 1982
jako Mrs. Sabin
Cagney & Lacey
Serial • 1982
jako Mrs. Isbecki
Between Two Brothers
Film • 1982
jako Victim's Wife
Hollywood’s Children
Film • 1982
jako Self
The Brady Brides
Serial • 1981
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
Film • 1968
jako Self (clip from "Pennies from Heaven")
Lilith
Film • 1964
jako Patient (uncredited)
Criminal Investigator
Film • 1942
jako Ellen
Stardust on the Sage
Film • 1942
jako Judy Drew
Heart of the Rio Grande
Film • 1942
jako Connie Lane
Girls' Town
Film • 1942
jako Sue Norman
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4
Film • 1942
jako Self
Her First Beau
Film • 1941
jako Milly Lou
Her First Romance
Film • 1940
jako Linda Strong
Nobody's Children
Film • 1940
jako Pat
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Film • 1940
jako Polly Pepper
Out West with the Peppers
Film • 1940
jako Polly Pepper
Five Little Peppers at Home
Film • 1940
jako Polly Pepper
Music in My Heart
Film • 1940
jako Mary O'Malley
Pride of the Blue Grass
Film • 1939
jako Midge Griner
Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Film • 1939
jako Polly Pepper
The Little Adventuress
Film • 1938
jako Pinky Horton
City Streets
Film • 1938
jako Winnie Brady
Little Miss Roughneck
Film • 1938
jako Foxine LaRue
Life Begins with Love
Film • 1937
jako Dodie Martin
Pennies from Heaven
Film • 1936
jako Patsy Smith
Tugboat Princess
Film • 1936
jako 'Princess' Judy
And So They Were Married
Film • 1936
jako Brenda Farnham
One Way Ticket
Film • 1935
jako Ellen
She Married Her Boss
Film • 1935
jako Annabel Barclay
The Keeper of the Bees
Film • 1935
jako Jean Marie Meredith / Little Scout
Dinky
Film • 1935
jako Sally
Kid Millions
Film • 1934
jako Little Girl in Ice Cream Number (uncredited)
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Film • 1934
jako Australia Wiggs
Jane Eyre
Film • 1934
jako Adele Rochester
His Greatest Gamble
Film • 1934
jako Alice (as a child)
Cross Streets
Film • 1934
jako Little Sister
This Side of Heaven
Film • 1934
jako Felicia - Minister's Daughter (uncredited)
Two Alone
Film • 1934
jako Rogers' Daughter (uncredited)
Mush and Milk
Film • 1933
jako Edith
The Penguin Pool Murder
Film • 1932
jako Little Girl at Aquarium (uncredited)
Law and Lawless
Film • 1932
jako Betty Kelley
Birthday Blues
Film • 1932
jako Girl with String in Mouth
Divorce In The Family
Film • 1932
jako Little Girl with Kite
The Rider of Death Valley
Film • 1932
jako Betty Joyce
Emma
Film • 1932
jako Gypsy as a Child (uncredited)
Huckleberry Finn
Film • 1931
jako Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Daddy Long Legs
Film • 1931
jako Orphan (uncredited)
Second Hand Kisses
Film • 1931
jako Orphan girl
Cimarron
Film • 1931
jako (uncredited)
Shivering Shakespeare
Film • 1930
jako Girls Scared of Elephant
Madame X
Film • 1929
jako Child at Puppet Show (uncredited)
Movie Night
Film • 1929
jako Daughter