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 f...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man
1999
as Self
In the 1942 film "This Gun For Hire," he was only a supporting actor. But his portrayal of a cold, ruthless killer with a core of gentle sadness had a...
In the Mood
1987
as Mrs. Long, Judy's Mother
When 15-year-old Sonny Wisecarver has an affair with his older neighbor Francine and then runs off to marry her, a stern judge has the union annulled....
The Hills Have Eyes Part 2
1985
as Mrs. Wilson
A motocross team on their way to trial a new super-fuel head out across the desert lead by Rachel, who, unbeknownst to the rest of the group, is a sur...
Grace Kelly
1983
as Edith Head
The fairy tale story of the actress who became a princess is told in this biography that traces her rise from Philadelphia socialite to Hollywood movi...
Between Two Brothers
1982
as Victim's Wife
Bob Frazer is a prominent attorney who compulsively tries to make amends with his younger, less polished brother, Russ, who runs the family business a...
Hollywood’s Children
1982
as Self
A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell).
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
1968
as Self (clip from "Pennies from Heaven")
Sgt. O'Farrell an Army soldier on an island in the South Pacific during World War II is trying to bring the two basics of life to his fellow serviceme...
Lilith
1964
as Patient (uncredited)
Vincent Bruce, a war veteran, begins working as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a private psychiatric facility for wealthy people where he ...
Criminal Investigator
1942
as Ellen
A reporter investigates the murder of a showgirl, who was the widow of a millionaire. While digging in to the mysterious murder of a showgirl (Vivian...
Stardust on the Sage
1942
as Judy Drew
A singing cowboy (Gene Autry) and his partner (Bill Henry) thwart a foreman who wants their mine.
Heart of the Rio Grande
1942
as Connie Lane
As foreman of a dude ranch, Gene has two problems. One is a guest, the spoiled daughter of a millioniare, and the other is the disgruntled ex-foreman ...
Girls' Town
1942
as Sue Norman
A West Coast version of "Stage Door", set at a Hollywood boarding house for young women hoping for movie careers.
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4
1942
as Self
Fourth film in the Hedda Hopper series.
Her First Beau
1941
as Milly Lou
15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also...
Her First Romance
1940
as Linda Strong
A bookish co-ed is pranked into attending a formal dance, but her stepsister refuses to help her prepare. With support from a cook and her cousin, she...
Nobody's Children
1940
as Pat
A radio host broadcasts a show about children living in an orphanage.
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
1940
as Polly Pepper
The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.
Out West with the Peppers
1940
as Polly Pepper
When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But a...
Five Little Peppers at Home
1940
as Polly Pepper
The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner bec...
Music in My Heart
1940
as Mary O'Malley
A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.
Pride of the Blue Grass
1939
as Midge Griner
A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.
Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
1939
as Polly Pepper
The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children. ...
City Streets
1938
as Winnie Brady
When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle" Joe Carmine. Joe convinces Father Ryan to let him ...
Little Miss Roughneck
1938
as Foxine LaRue
Sad-eyed, uniquely talented child actress Edith Fellows was Columbia's "answer" to Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and Deanna Durbin. In Little Miss Roug...
Life Begins with Love
1937
as Dodie Martin
A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune. He d...
Pennies from Heaven
1936
as Patsy Smith
Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a...
Tugboat Princess
1936
as 'Princess' Judy
When her parents are drowned at sea, "Princess" Judy is adopted by a soft-hearted old sea captain, Captain Zack, and brought to live on his tugboat.
And So They Were Married
1936
as Brenda Farnham
A bitter widow and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm. Although both have no intention ...
One Way Ticket
1935
as Ellen
A convict marries the warder's daughter after his escape and she eventually persuades him to finish his sentence.
She Married Her Boss
1935
as Annabel Barclay
A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his sp...
The Keeper of the Bees
1935
as Jean Marie Meredith / Little Scout
A severely traumatized World War I veteran, believing that he's living on borrowed time, comes upon a peaceful little village and meets an old man cal...
Dinky
1935
as Sally
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
Kid Millions
1934
as Little Girl in Ice Cream Number (uncredited)
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1934
as Australia Wiggs
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never be...
Jane Eyre
1934
as Adele Rochester
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee...
His Greatest Gamble
1934
as Alice (as a child)
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
Cross Streets
1934
as Little Sister
A man falls in love with a young woman, only to discover that she's the daughter of an ex-girlfriend who jilted him almost 20 years before.
This Side of Heaven
1934
as Felicia - Minister's Daughter (uncredited)
A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
Two Alone
1934
as Rogers' Daughter (uncredited)
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they...
Mush and Milk
1933
as Edith
When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park.
The Penguin Pool Murder
1932
as Little Girl at Aquarium (uncredited)
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank ...
Law and Lawless
1932
as Betty Kelley
Montana and sidekick Pancho hire on at the Lopez rancho to fight Daggett and his outlaw gang. But Lopez's foreman Barnes is one of Daggett's men and h...
Birthday Blues
1932
as Girl with String in Mouth
Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present.
Divorce In The Family
1932
as Little Girl with Kite
A child struggles to come to terms with his parents' divorce. Director Charles Reisner's 1932 drama stars Jackie Cooper, Lewis Stone, Conrad Nagel, Lo...
The Rider of Death Valley
1932
as Betty Joyce
Rigby, Larribee, and Grant each have one third of Bill Joyce's map locating his gold mine. The three plus Joyce's sister Helen head for the mine. An a...
Emma
1932
as Gypsy as a Child (uncredited)
After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.
Huckleberry Finn
1931
as Schoolgirl (uncredited)
A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences li...
Daddy Long Legs
1931
as Orphan (uncredited)
Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds h...
Second Hand Kisses
1931
as Orphan girl
Knockabout comedy in which woman marries widower each having a child of their own which the other knows nothing about.
Cimarron
1931
as (uncredited)
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his fa...
Shivering Shakespeare
1930
as Girls Scared of Elephant
The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis. Things go ...
Madame X
1929
as Child at Puppet Show (uncredited)
A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing her...
Movie Night
1929
as Daughter
A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...