Edith Fellows

Edith Fellows

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.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1923-05-20
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As: Edythe Fellows

Movies List of Edith Fellows

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Lilith

1964 Movie
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Grace Kelly

1983 Movie
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Tugboat Princess

1936 Movie
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This Side of Heaven

1934 Movie
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Music in My Heart

1940 Movie
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Stardust on the Sage

1942 Movie
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Mush and Milk

1933 Movie
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Criminal Investigator

1942 Movie
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Cross Streets

1934 Movie
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Jane Eyre

1934 Movie
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Pennies from Heaven

1936 Movie
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Nobody's Children

1940 Movie
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His Greatest Gamble

1934 Movie
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Dinky

1935 Movie
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Law and Lawless

1932 Movie
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City Streets

1938 Movie
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Girls' Town

1942 Movie
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In the Mood

1987 Movie
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Second Hand Kisses

1931 Movie
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Movie Night

1929 Movie
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Divorce In The Family

1932 Movie
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Shivering Shakespeare

1930 Movie
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Daddy Long Legs

1931 Movie
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Huckleberry Finn

1931 Movie
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Her First Romance

1940 Movie
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She Married Her Boss

1935 Movie
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Kid Millions

1934 Movie
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Emma

1932 Movie
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One Way Ticket

1935 Movie
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Little Miss Roughneck

1938 Movie
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Cimarron

1931 Movie
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Two Alone

1934 Movie
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Birthday Blues

1932 Movie
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Madame X

1929 Movie
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Life Begins with Love

1937 Movie
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Her First Beau

1941 Movie
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Penguin Pool Murder

1932 Movie
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Between Two Brothers

1982 Movie