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Marcia Mae Jones
Los Angeles, California, USA
Marcia Mae Jones was born on August 1, 1924, to an acting family. Her mother, Freda Jones, was an actress, and all three of her siblings - Margaret Jones, Macon Jones, and Marvin…
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Marcia Mae Jones was born on August 1, 1924, to an acting family. Her mother, Freda Jones, was an actress, and all three of her siblings - Margaret Jones, Macon Jones, and Marvin Jones - were child actors. But Marcia Mae had the most successful career, and she was the only one of her siblings to become a child star. She made her acting debut when just six months old, when director James Cruze saw her in her baby carriage and immediately cast her as the baby in his film Mannequin (1926). Her first major role was in Night Nurse (1931), in which she played a sick child that a sinister hospital staff was trying to murder. By age 10, Marcia Mae had appeared in several dramatic films. In 1936, she played a terrified victim of school bullying in These Three (1936), a role that brought her much attention. In 1937, she played the crippled Klara in Heidi (1937). The film starred two other child actors, Delmar Watson and Shirley Temple. Despite a four-year age difference, Marcia Mae and Shirley acted well with each other, and they appeared together again in The Little Princess (1939). Besides Shirley Temple and Delmar Watson, Marcia Mae worked with several other child stars of the 1930s, including Jane Withers, Bonita Granville, Jackie Moran, Sybil Jason, and her favorite, Jackie Cooper. Marcia Mae's film career began to slow down in the early 1950s, after which she largely appeared in television roles. Her adult life was marred by the suicide of her second husband, Bill Davenport, and problems with alcohol. She eventually conquered her alcohol dependency and became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Marcia Mae Jones died on 2 September 2007 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.
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2013
That's Sexploitation!
Movie archive footage
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1996
Shirley Temple: The Biggest Little Star
Movie Self
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1993
Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
Movie Self
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1981
Simon & Simon
TV show
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1974
The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe
Movie Sarah
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1973
The Way We Were
Movie Peggy Vanderbilt
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1972
A Great American Tragedy
Movie Claire
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1972
The Streets of San Francisco
TV show
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1971
Cannon
TV show
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1968
Live a Little, Love a Little
Movie Woman #1 (uncredited)
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1966
Family Affair
TV show
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1964
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
TV show Waitress
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1961
Mister Ed
TV show
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1960
My Three Sons
TV show
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1954
Meet the Family
Movie Candy
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1952
The Star
Movie Waitress (uncredited)
More credits
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1952
The Yellow Haired Kid
Movie Amy
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1951
Chicago Calling
Movie Peggy (as Marsha Jones)
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1951
Racket Squad
TV show
- 1951
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1951
Life with Buster Keaton
Movie
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1950
Hi-Jacked
Movie Jean Harper (as Marsha Jones)
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1950
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Movie Katie O'Grady
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1949
Arson, Inc.
Movie Betty - Fender's Secretary
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1949
Tucson
Movie Polly Johnson
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1948
Trouble Preferred
Movie Virginia Evans
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1948
Street Corner
Movie Lois Marsh
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1948
The Fabulous Fraud
Movie Blind Girl
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1945
Snafu
Movie Martha
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1944
Lady in the Death House
Movie Suzy Kirk Logan
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1944
Nine Girls
Movie Shirley Berke
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1943
Top Man
Movie Erna Lane
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1943
Nobody's Darling
Movie Lois
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1943
The Youngest Profession
Movie Vera Bailey
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1942
Secrets of a Co-Ed
Movie Blonde Co-Ed in Black Outfit [Script Name: Laura Wright]
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1941
Let's Go Collegiate
Movie Bess Martin
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1941
The Gang's All Here
Movie Patsy Wallace
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1941
Nice Girl?
Movie Jane's Friend at Benefit
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1940
The Old Swimmin' Hole
Movie Betty Elliott
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1940
Haunted House
Movie Millie Henshaw
