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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 20, 1923
Died
June 26, 2011
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As
- Edythe Fellows
Edith Fellows
0.1 Popularity
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 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
7.0
Self
Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man
1999
7.8
Sadie Hubbell
ER
1994
5.5
Mrs. Long, Judy's Mother
In the Mood
1987
4.3
Mrs. Wilson
The Hills Have Eyes Part 2
1985
6.3
Edith Head
Grace Kelly
1983
6.9
Mrs. Isbecki
Cagney & Lacey
1982
0.0
Victim's Wife
Between Two Brothers
1982
0.0
Self
Hollywood’s Children
1982
7.5
The Brady Brides
1981
6.1
Self (clip from "Pennies from Heaven")
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
1968
Credits
Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man
as Self
1999
7.0
ER
as Sadie Hubbell
1994
7.8
In the Mood
as Mrs. Long, Judy's Mother
1987
5.5
The Hills Have Eyes Part 2
as Mrs. Wilson
1985
4.3
Grace Kelly
as Edith Head
1983
6.3
Cagney & Lacey
as Mrs. Isbecki
1982
6.9
Between Two Brothers
as Victim's Wife
1982
0.0
Hollywood’s Children
as Self
1982
0.0
The Brady Brides
1981
7.5
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
as Self (clip from "Pennies from Heaven")
1968
6.1
Lilith
as Patient (uncredited)
1964
6.4
Criminal Investigator
as Ellen
1942
4.0
Stardust on the Sage
as Judy Drew
1942
5.0
Heart of the Rio Grande
as Connie Lane
1942
8.0
Girls' Town
as Sue Norman
1942
0.0
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4
as Self
1942
0.0
Her First Beau
as Milly Lou
1941
5.0
Her First Romance
as Linda Strong
1940
6.5
Nobody's Children
as Pat
1940
0.0
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
as Polly Pepper
1940
6.7
Out West with the Peppers
as Polly Pepper
1940
5.7
Five Little Peppers at Home
as Polly Pepper
1940
6.3
Music in My Heart
as Mary O'Malley
1940
6.2
Pride of the Blue Grass
as Midge Griner
1939
6.0
Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
as Polly Pepper
1939
6.2
City Streets
as Winnie Brady
1938
0.0
Little Miss Roughneck
as Foxine LaRue
1938
0.0
Life Begins with Love
as Dodie Martin
1937
5.0
Pennies from Heaven
as Patsy Smith
1936
6.9
Tugboat Princess
as 'Princess' Judy
1936
0.0
And So They Were Married
as Brenda Farnham
1936
5.8
One Way Ticket
as Ellen
1935
5.0
She Married Her Boss
as Annabel Barclay
1935
7.0
The Keeper of the Bees
as Jean Marie Meredith / Little Scout
1935
6.0
Dinky
as Sally
1935
6.7
Kid Millions
as Little Girl in Ice Cream Number (uncredited)
1934
6.5
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
as Australia Wiggs
1934
6.0
Jane Eyre
as Adele Rochester
1934
4.9
His Greatest Gamble
as Alice (as a child)
1934
5.0
Cross Streets
as Little Sister
1934
5.8
This Side of Heaven
as Felicia - Minister's Daughter (uncredited)
1934
7.0
Two Alone
as Rogers' Daughter (uncredited)
1934
7.0
Mush and Milk
as Edith
1933
6.8
The Penguin Pool Murder
as Little Girl at Aquarium (uncredited)
1932
5.6
Law and Lawless
as Betty Kelley
1932
4.0
Birthday Blues
as Girl with String in Mouth
1932
6.5
Divorce In The Family
as Little Girl with Kite
1932
6.0
The Rider of Death Valley
as Betty Joyce
1932
7.0
Emma
as Gypsy as a Child (uncredited)
1932
6.4
Huckleberry Finn
as Schoolgirl (uncredited)
1931
8.0
Daddy Long Legs
as Orphan (uncredited)
1931
4.0
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Second Hand Kisses
as Orphan girl
1931
0.0
Cimarron
as (uncredited)
1931
5.6
Shivering Shakespeare
as Girls Scared of Elephant
1930
5.7
Madame X
as Child at Puppet Show (uncredited)
1929
6.1
Movie Night
as Daughter
1929
6.0