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Edith Fellows is a Actor American born on 20 may 1923 at Boston (USA)

Edith Fellows

Edith Fellows
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Birth name Edith Marilyn Fellows
Nationality USA
Birth 20 may 1923 at Boston (USA)
Death 26 june 2011 (at 88 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)

Edith Marilyn Fellows (May 20, 1923 – June 26, 2011) was an American actress who became a child star in the 1930s. Best known for playing orphans and street urchins, Fellows was an expressive actress with a good singing voice. She made her screen debut at the age of five in Charley Chase's film short Movie Night (1929). Her first credited role in a feature film was The Rider of Death Valley (1932). By 1935, she had appeared in over twenty films. Her performance opposite Claudette Colbert and Melvyn Douglas in She Married Her Boss (1935) won her a seven-year contract with Columbia Pictures, the first such contract offered to a child.

Fellows appeared in a series of leading roles for Columbia, including Tugboat Princess (1936), Little Miss Roughneck (1938), and The Little Adventuress (1938). Her performance as the precocious orphan alongside Bing Crosby in Pennies from Heaven (1936) won her critical acclaim. In 1942, she appeared in two Gene Autry films, Heart of the Rio Grande and Stardust on the Sage, which highlighted her fine singing voice. Her acting career was interrupted in the 1940s by serious personal problems, her own life becoming more Dickensian than the characters she portrayed on screen. In the 1980s, she returned to acting with sporadic roles in television series. Between 1929 and 1995, Fellows appeared in over seventy films and television programs.

Usually with

Robert F. McGowan
Robert F. McGowan
(3 films)
Hal Roach
Hal Roach
(3 films)
Bess Flowers
Bess Flowers
(4 films)
Dickie Moore
Dickie Moore
(4 films)
Edward LeSaint
Edward LeSaint
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Edith Fellows (31 films)

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Actress

The Hills Have Eyes Part 2
The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 (1985)
, 1h26
Directed by Wes Craven
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Transport films, Motocyclette, Serial killer films
Actors Michael Berryman, Kevin Spirtas, Joe Bob Briggs, John Bloom, Penny Johnson, John Laughlin
Roles Mrs. Wilson
Rating38% 1.9117451.9117451.9117451.9117451.911745
The film begins with Bobby Carter and his psychiatrist discussing the events of the first film, which took place eight years ago. Bobby is still traumatized by those events, but he and Rachel (formerly known as Ruby) now own a biker team, and have also invented a super fuel that can power bikes. The team is due to race in the same desert where the original massacre took place, and Bobby's psychiatrist tries to convince him to go, but he decides against it, and Rachel takes his place. The team consisting of the blind Cass, her boyfriend Roy, Harry, Hulk, Foster, Jane and Sue meet up at a bus and set off. Along the way, they pick up Beast from the dog pound, the dog previously owned by the Carters, who now belongs to Rachel.
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968)
, 1h32
Directed by Frank Tashlin
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Jeffrey Hunter, Mako Iwamatsu, Henry Wilcoxon, Dick Sargent
Roles Self (clip from "Pennies from Heaven")
Rating58% 2.9022352.9022352.9022352.9022352.902235
Master Sergeant Dan O'Farrell is a G.I. on an island somewhere in the South Pacific during World War II, bemoaning the consequences of a ship torpedoed while ferrying to the island a desperately needed cargo of beer.
Lilith
Lilith (1964)
, 1h54
Directed by Robert Rossen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Kim Hunter, Jessica Walter, Anne Meacham
Roles Patient (uncredited)
Rating67% 3.395193.395193.395193.395193.39519
Set in a private mental institution, Chestnut Lodge in Rockville, Maryland, the film tells of a trainee occupational therapist, a troubled ex-soldier named Vincent Bruce (Beatty), who becomes dangerously obsessed with seductive, artistic, schizophrenic patient Lilith Arthur (Seberg). Bruce makes progress helping Lilith emerge from seclusion and leave the institutional grounds for a day in the country, and accompanies her on other excursions in which she is alone with him. She attempts to seduce him, and eventually Bruce tells Lilith he is in love with her. Lilith also seduces an older female patient, and enchants a couple of young boys on one her outings. Bruce triggers the suicide of another patient (Fonda) out of jealousy over the patient's crush on Lilith. This brings up memories in Lilith of her brother's suicide, which she implies was due to an incestuous relationship which she initiated, and she goes on a destructive rampage in her room and winds up in a catatonic state. Bruce presents himself to his superiors for psychiatric help.
Heart of the Rio Grande
Heart of the Rio Grande (1942)
, 1h10
Directed by William Morgan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Musical, Western
Actors Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Fay McKenzie, Edith Fellows, Pierre Watkin, William Haade
Roles Connie Lane
Rating64% 3.2318353.2318353.2318353.2318353.231835
Spoiled teenager Connie Lane (Edith Fellows) has no desire to join her classmates on a two-month vacation at the Smoke River Dude Ranch. Even her caring teacher, Alice Bennett (Fay McKenzie), is unable to persuade her. Connie runs off to her father, business tycoon Randolph Lane (Pierre Watkin), and pleads with him not to send her away. Preoccupied with business matters and too busy to notice how spoiled his daughter has become, Lane dismisses her and sends her away to spend the summer with her classmates at the ranch.
Stardust on the Sage
Stardust on the Sage (1942)
, 1h5
Directed by Betty Burbridge, William Morgan
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, William Henry, Edith Fellows, Louise Currie, Emmett Vogan
Roles Judy Drew
Rating63% 3.1766253.1766253.1766253.1766253.176625
The Rawhide Mining Company is looking for investors to support their hydraulic mining operations in the area. Radio promotions have drawn the interest of local ranchers. Singing cowboy and cattleman Gene Autry (Gene Autry) opposes the company and warns his fellow ranchers not to invest in it—too many local mines have already failed. After saving teenager Judy Drew (Edith Fellows) by stopping her runaway carriage, Gene meets her sister, Nancy Drew (Louise Currie), who runs the local radio station which features a show sponsored by the mining company. Nancy is pleased to see "progressive ranchers" supporting the mining company and tries to elicit Gene's endorsement, but he remains unimpressed.
Music in My Heart
Music in My Heart (1940)
, 1h10
Directed by Joseph Santley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Tony Martin, Rita Hayworth, Edith Fellows, Alan Mowbray, Eric Blore, George Tobias
Roles Mary O'Malley
Rating60% 3.0010953.0010953.0010953.0010953.001095
Une jeune fille de chœur fiancée à un millionnaire tombe pour la star de son dernier musicale.
City Streets
City Streets (1938)
, 1h8
Directed by Albert S. Rogell
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Leo Carrillo, Edith Fellows, Tommy Bond, Mary Gordon, Helen Jerome Eddy, Joe King
Roles Winnie Brady
Rating64% 3.2266853.2266853.2266853.2266853.226685
Pennies from Heaven
Pennies from Heaven (1936)
, 1h23
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod, Jo Swerling
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Bing Crosby, Madge Evans, Edith Fellows, Donald Meek, John Gallaudet, Nana Bryant
Roles Patsy Smith
Rating64% 3.2468153.2468153.2468153.2468153.246815
In prison, Larry Poole (Bing Crosby), a self-described troubadour, is approached by an inmate named Hart (John Gallaudet) who is on his way to the electric chair. Hart asks Larry to deliver a letter to a family called Smith near Middletown, New Jersey. After finding the family, which consists of a grandfather (Donald Meek) and a young girl named Patsy (Edith Fellows), Poole tells them that the letter holds a key, reveals that the condemned man had unintentionally killed Patsy's father and that he is giving the Smith family his old house and former hideout, the only thing he has to give as atonement.
The Keeper of the Bees
The Keeper of the Bees (1935)
, 1h15
Directed by Christy Cabanne
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Actors Neil Hamilton, Emma Dunn, Edith Fellows, Hobart Bosworth, Helen Jerome Eddy, Marion Shilling
Roles Jean Marie Meredith / Little Scout
Rating64% 3.2074053.2074053.2074053.2074053.207405
Differences from novel
She Married Her Boss
She Married Her Boss (1935)
, 1h25
Directed by Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Dixon, Raymond Walburn, Clara Kimball Young, Katharine Alexander
Roles Annabel Barclay
Rating64% 3.2468953.2468953.2468953.2468953.246895
It tells the story of a secretary who married her boss, however she has a hard time living up to him.