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Edith Fellows
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Edith Fellows
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1923-05-20,Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Gender
Female
Biography
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.

Filmography

6.5

Lilith
1964-10-01

6.4

Grace Kelly
1983-02-21

Tugboat Princess

0

Tugboat Princess
1936-10-15

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

6

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1934-10-28

This Side of Heaven

7

This Side of Heaven
1934-02-02

Heart of the Rio Grande

8

Heart of the Rio Grande
1942-03-11

Music in My Heart

6.1

Music in My Heart
1940-01-04

Stardust on the Sage

5

Stardust on the Sage
1942-05-25

6.8

Mush and Milk
1933-05-27

Criminal Investigator

4

Criminal Investigator
1942-10-23

5.8

Cross Streets
1934-07-05

The Keeper of the Bees

6

The Keeper of the Bees
1935-07-14

And So They Were Married

5.6

And So They Were Married
1936-05-10

4.9

Jane Eyre
1934-08-15

Pennies from Heaven

6.833

Pennies from Heaven
1936-11-25

The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell

5.2

The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
1968-05-08

Nobody's Children

0

Nobody's Children
1940-12-12

His Greatest Gamble

5

His Greatest Gamble
1934-08-10

Five Little Peppers And How They Grew

6.2

Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
1939-08-22

Five Little Peppers at Home

6.3

Five Little Peppers at Home
1940-02-08

Five Little Peppers in Trouble

6.7

Five Little Peppers in Trouble
1940-09-01

Out West with the Peppers

5.7

Out West with the Peppers
1940-06-30

6.7

Dinky
1935-05-11

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4

0

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4
1942-01-01

Law and Lawless

7

Law and Lawless
1932-11-29

0

City Streets
1938-07-01

0

Girls' Town
1942-03-06

The Rider of Death Valley

7

The Rider of Death Valley
1932-04-23

5.5

In the Mood
1987-09-16

Second Hand Kisses

0

Second Hand Kisses
1931-03-29

The Hills Have Eyes Part 2

4.43

The Hills Have Eyes Part 2
1985-08-02

6

Movie Night
1929-05-11

Divorce In The Family

6

Divorce In The Family
1932-08-27

Shivering Shakespeare

5.7

Shivering Shakespeare
1930-01-25

Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man

7

Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man
1999-03-04

Pride of the Blue Grass

6

Pride of the Blue Grass
1939-10-06

Daddy Long Legs

4

Daddy Long Legs
1931-06-05

Huckleberry Finn

8

Huckleberry Finn
1931-08-07

Her First Romance

6.5

Her First Romance
1940-12-25

She Married Her Boss

7

She Married Her Boss
1935-09-19

6.5

Kid Millions
1934-11-10

6.5

Emma
1932-01-02

5

One Way Ticket
1935-11-25

Little Miss Roughneck

0

Little Miss Roughneck
1938-01-23

5.5

Cimarron
1931-01-26

7

Two Alone
1934-01-26

6.5

Birthday Blues
1932-11-12

5.857

Madame X
1929-08-17

Life Begins with Love

5

Life Begins with Love
1937-10-06

5

Her First Beau
1941-05-08

Penguin Pool Murder

5.5

Penguin Pool Murder
1932-12-09

Hollywood’s Children

0

Hollywood’s Children
1982-02-24

Between Two Brothers

0

Between Two Brothers
1982-03-09

The Brady Brides

7.5

The Brady Brides
1981-02-06

7.814

ER
1994-09-19