Acting
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.
Simon & Simon
1981 · TV
My Three Sons
1960 · TV
Cannon
1971 · TV
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1964 · TV
The Streets of San Francisco
1972 · TV
Family Affair
1966 · TV
Mister Ed
1961 · TV
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951 · TV
Racket Squad
1951 · TV
The Way We Were
1973 · Movie
Heidi
1937 · Movie
The Star
1952 · Movie
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1938 · Movie
The Little Princess
1939 · Movie
Night Nurse
1931 · Movie
The Champ
1931 · Movie
Imitation of Life
1934 · Movie
The Life of Emile Zola
1937 · Movie
These Three
1936 · Movie
Mannequin
1926 · Movie
Live a Little, Love a Little
1968 · Movie
Tomboy
1940 · Movie
Nine Girls
1944 · Movie
King of Jazz
1930 · Movie
Street Scene
1931 · Movie
Anne of Windy Poplars
1940 · Movie
Employees' Entrance
1933 · Movie
Nobody's Darling
1943 · Movie
Street Corner
1948 · Movie
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
1950 · Movie
First Love
1939 · Movie
The Gang's All Here
1941 · Movie
Snafu
1945 · Movie
Hi-Jacked
1950 · Movie
A Dog of Flanders
1935 · Movie
What Price Hollywood?
1932 · Movie
Doctor Bull
1933 · Movie
Nice Girl?
1941 · Movie
Top Man
1943 · Movie
That's Sexploitation!
2013 · Movie
Lady Behave!
1937 · Movie
Mountain Justice
1937 · Movie
A Great American Tragedy
1972 · Movie
Chicago Calling
1951 · Movie
Meet Dr. Christian
1939 · Movie
Trouble Preferred
1948 · Movie
The Flying Irishman
1939 · Movie
The Bishop Murder Case
1929 · Movie
Mad About Music
1938 · Movie
The Youngest Profession
1943 · Movie
The Old Swimmin' Hole
1940 · Movie
Tucson
1949 · Movie
This Is the Life
1935 · Movie
Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
1993 · Movie
Lady in the Death House
1944 · Movie
Let's Go Collegiate
1941 · Movie
Haunted House
1940 · Movie
The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe
1974 · Movie
Barefoot Boy
1938 · Movie
Arson, Inc.
1949 · Movie
Two Wise Maids
1937 · Movie
Secrets of a Co-Ed
1942 · Movie
Birthday Blues
1932 · Movie
Life with Buster Keaton
1951 · Movie
The Fabulous Fraud
1948 · Movie
Mush and Milk
1933 · Movie
The Yellow Haired Kid
1952 · Movie
