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Edith Fellows‌

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Birthday

calendar1923-05-20

Popularity

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Edith Fellows

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Edith Fellows

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1923-05-20

Popularity

star3.1

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.

Movie Credits

Lilith

Lilith‌
star6.5
calendar 1964

Grace Kelly

Grace Kelly‌
star6.4
calendar 1983

Tugboat Princess

Tugboat Princess‌
star0.0
calendar 1936

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch‌
star6.0
calendar 1934

This Side of Heaven

This Side of Heaven‌
star7.0
calendar 1934

Heart of the Rio Grande

Heart of the Rio Grande‌
star8.0
calendar 1942

Music in My Heart

Music in My Heart‌
star6.1
calendar 1940

Stardust on the Sage

Stardust on the Sage‌
star5.0
calendar 1942

Mush and Milk

Mush and Milk‌
star6.8
calendar 1933

Criminal Investigator

Criminal Investigator‌
star4.0
calendar 1942

Cross Streets

Cross Streets‌
star5.8
calendar 1934

The Keeper of the Bees

The Keeper of the Bees‌
star6.0
calendar 1935

And So They Were Married

And So They Were Married‌
star5.6
calendar 1936

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre‌
star4.9
calendar 1934

Pennies from Heaven

Pennies from Heaven‌
star6.8
calendar 1936

The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell

The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell‌
star5.2
calendar 1968

Nobody's Children

Nobody's Children‌
star0.0
calendar 1940

His Greatest Gamble

His Greatest Gamble‌
star5.0
calendar 1934

Five Little Peppers And How They Grew

Five Little Peppers And How They Grew‌
star6.3
calendar 1939

Five Little Peppers at Home

Five Little Peppers at Home‌
star6.3
calendar 1940

Five Little Peppers in Trouble

Five Little Peppers in Trouble‌
star6.7
calendar 1940

Out West with the Peppers

Out West with the Peppers‌
star5.7
calendar 1940

Dinky

Dinky‌
star6.7
calendar 1935

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4‌
star0.0
calendar 1942

Law and Lawless

Law and Lawless‌
star7.0
calendar 1932

City Streets

City Streets‌
star0.0
calendar 1938

Girls' Town

Girls' Town‌
star0.0
calendar 1942

The Rider of Death Valley

The Rider of Death Valley‌
star7.0
calendar 1932

In the Mood

In the Mood‌
star5.5
calendar 1987

Second Hand Kisses

Second Hand Kisses‌
star0.0
calendar 1931

The Hills Have Eyes Part 2

The Hills Have Eyes Part 2‌
star4.4
calendar 1985

Movie Night

Movie Night‌
star6.0
calendar 1929

Divorce In The Family

Divorce In The Family‌
star6.0
calendar 1932

Shivering Shakespeare

Shivering Shakespeare‌
star5.7
calendar 1930

Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man

Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man‌
star7.0
calendar 1999

Pride of the Blue Grass

Pride of the Blue Grass‌
star6.0
calendar 1939

Daddy Long Legs

Daddy Long Legs‌
star4.0
calendar 1931

Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn‌
star8.0
calendar 1931

Her First Romance

Her First Romance‌
star6.5
calendar 1940

She Married Her Boss

She Married Her Boss‌
star7.0
calendar 1935

Kid Millions

Kid Millions‌
star6.5
calendar 1934

Emma

Emma‌
star6.4
calendar 1932

One Way Ticket

One Way Ticket‌
star5.0
calendar 1935

Little Miss Roughneck

Little Miss Roughneck‌
star0.0
calendar 1938

Cimarron

Cimarron‌
star5.5
calendar 1931

Two Alone

Two Alone‌
star7.0
calendar 1934

Birthday Blues

Birthday Blues‌
star6.5
calendar 1932

Madame X

Madame X‌
star6.0
calendar 1929

Life Begins with Love

Life Begins with Love‌
star5.0
calendar 1937

Her First Beau

Her First Beau‌
star5.0
calendar 1941

Penguin Pool Murder

Penguin Pool Murder‌
star5.5
calendar 1932

Hollywood’s Children

Hollywood’s Children‌
star0.0
calendar 1982

Tv Credits

The Brady Brides

The Brady Brides‌
star7.5
calendar 1981

ER

ER‌
star7.8
calendar 1994