- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- August 1, 1924
- Place of Birth
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Died
- September 2, 2007
Marcia Mae Jones
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 …
Filmography
movieThat's Sexploitation!
2013 · archive footage
Shirley Temple: The Biggest Little Star
movieShirley Temple: The Biggest Little Star
1996 · Self
movieShirley Temple: America's Little Darling
1993 · Self
tvSimon & Simon
1981
movieThe Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe
1974 · Sarah
movieThe Way We Were
1973 · Peggy Vanderbilt
movieA Great American Tragedy
1972 · Claire
tvThe Streets of San Francisco
1972
tvCannon
1971
movieLive a Little, Love a Little
1968 · Woman #1 (uncredited)
tvFamily Affair
1966
tvGomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1964 · Waitress
tvMister Ed
1961
tvMy Three Sons
1960
Meet the Family
movieMeet the Family
1954 · Candy
movieThe Star
1952 · Waitress (uncredited)
movieThe Yellow Haired Kid
1952 · Amy
movieChicago Calling
1951 · Peggy (as Marsha Jones)
tvRacket Squad
1951
tvThe Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
movieLife with Buster Keaton
1951
movieHi-Jacked
1950 · Jean Harper (as Marsha Jones)
movieThe Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
1950 · Katie O'Grady
movieArson, Inc.
1949 · Betty - Fender's Secretary
movieTucson
1949 · Polly Johnson
movieTrouble Preferred
1948 · Virginia Evans
movieStreet Corner
1948 · Lois Marsh
movieThe Fabulous Fraud
1948 · Blind Girl
movieSnafu
1945 · Martha
movieLady in the Death House
1944 · Suzy Kirk Logan
movieNine Girls
1944 · Shirley Berke
movieTop Man
1943 · Erna Lane
movieNobody's Darling
1943 · Lois
movieThe Youngest Profession
1943 · Vera Bailey
movieSecrets of a Co-Ed
1942 · Blonde Co-Ed in Black Outfit [Script Name: Laura Wright]
movieLet's Go Collegiate
1941 · Bess Martin
movieThe Gang's All Here
1941 · Patsy Wallace
movieNice Girl?
1941 · Jane's Friend at Benefit
movieThe Old Swimmin' Hole
1940 · Betty Elliott
movieHaunted House
1940 · Millie Henshaw
movieAnne of Windy Poplars
1940 · Jen Pringle
movieTomboy
1940 · Pat Kelly
movieMeet Dr. Christian
1939 · Marilee
movieFirst Love
1939 · Marcia Parker
movieThe Flying Irishman
1939 · Teenager
movieThe Little Princess
1939 · Lavinia
movieBarefoot Boy
1938 · Pige Blaine
movieMad About Music
1938 · Olga
movieThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1938 · Mary Sawyer
movieLady Behave!
1937 · Patricia Cormack
movieHeidi
1937 · Klara Sesemann
movieThe Life of Emile Zola
1937 · Helen Richards
movieMountain Justice
1937 · Bethie Harkins
movieTwo Wise Maids
1937 · Geraldine 'Jerry ' Karns
movieThese Three
1936 · Rosalie Wells
movieThis Is the Life
1935 · Child
movieA Dog of Flanders
1935 · Little Girl at Party (uncredited)
movieImitation of Life
1934 · Peola's Frontrow Classmate (uncredited)
movieDoctor Bull
1933 · Ruth
movieMush and Milk
1933
movieEmployees' Entrance
1933 · Flower Girl at Wedding (uncredited)
movieBirthday Blues
1932 · Girl with Whistle
movieWhat Price Hollywood?
1932 · Flower Girl at Wedding (uncredited)
movieThe Champ
1931 · Mary Lou Carleton
movieStreet Scene
1931
movieNight Nurse
1931 · Nanny Ritchey (uncredited)
movieKing of Jazz
1930 · Child ('Bridal Veil') (uncredited)
movieThe Bishop Murder Case
1929 · Hungry Child in Park (uncredited)
movieMannequin
1926 · Joan Herrick as a baby (uncredited)