Marcia Mae Jones
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 1, 1924
- Died
- September 2, 2007 (aged 83)
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography
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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Filmography
That's Sexploitation!
Movie · as archive footage
Shirley Temple: The Biggest Little Star
Movie · as Self
Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
Movie · as Self
Simon & Simon
TV · 1 ep
The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe
Movie · as Sarah
The Way We Were
Movie · as Peggy Vanderbilt
A Great American Tragedy
Movie · as Claire
The Streets of San Francisco
TV · 1 ep
Cannon
TV · 2 eps
Live a Little, Love a Little
Movie · as Woman #1 (uncredited)
Family Affair
TV · 1 ep
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
TV · as Waitress · 1 ep
Mister Ed
TV · 1 ep
My Three Sons
TV · 3 eps
Meet the Family
Movie · as Candy
The Yellow Haired Kid
Movie · as Amy
The Star
Movie · as Waitress (uncredited)
Chicago Calling
Movie · as Peggy (as Marsha Jones)
Life with Buster Keaton
Movie
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
TV · 1 ep
Racket Squad
TV · 1 ep
Hi-Jacked
Movie · as Jean Harper (as Marsha Jones)
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Movie · as Katie O'Grady
Arson, Inc.
Movie · as Betty - Fender's Secretary
Tucson
Movie · as Polly Johnson
Street Corner
Movie · as Lois Marsh
The Fabulous Fraud
Movie · as Blind Girl
Trouble Preferred
Movie · as Virginia Evans
Snafu
Movie · as Martha
Lady in the Death House
Movie · as Suzy Kirk Logan
Nine Girls
Movie · as Shirley Berke
The Youngest Profession
Movie · as Vera Bailey
Nobody's Darling
Movie · as Lois
Top Man
Movie · as Erna Lane
Secrets of a Co-Ed
Movie · as Blonde Co-Ed in Black Outfit [Script Name: Laura Wright]
The Gang's All Here
Movie · as Patsy Wallace
Let's Go Collegiate
Movie · as Bess Martin
Nice Girl?
Movie · as Jane's Friend at Benefit
The Old Swimmin' Hole
Movie · as Betty Elliott
Anne of Windy Poplars
Movie · as Jen Pringle
Tomboy
Movie · as Pat Kelly
Haunted House
Movie · as Millie Henshaw
The Little Princess
Movie · as Lavinia
First Love
Movie · as Marcia Parker
The Flying Irishman
Movie · as Teenager
Meet Dr. Christian
Movie · as Marilee
Mad About Music
Movie · as Olga
Barefoot Boy
Movie · as Pige Blaine
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Movie · as Mary Sawyer
Lady Behave!
Movie · as Patricia Cormack
Mountain Justice
Movie · as Bethie Harkins
Heidi
Movie · as Klara Sesemann
Two Wise Maids
Movie · as Geraldine 'Jerry ' Karns
The Life of Emile Zola
Movie · as Helen Richards
These Three
Movie · as Rosalie Wells
A Dog of Flanders
Movie · as Little Girl at Party (uncredited)
This Is the Life
Movie · as Child
Imitation of Life
Movie · as Peola's Frontrow Classmate (uncredited)
Mush and Milk
Movie
Employees' Entrance
Movie · as Flower Girl at Wedding (uncredited)
Doctor Bull
Movie · as Ruth
Birthday Blues
Movie · as Girl with Whistle
What Price Hollywood?
Movie · as Flower Girl at Wedding (uncredited)
Night Nurse
Movie · as Nanny Ritchey (uncredited)
The Champ
Movie · as Mary Lou Carleton
Street Scene
Movie
King of Jazz
Movie · as Child ('Bridal Veil') (uncredited)
The Bishop Murder Case
Movie · as Hungry Child in Park (uncredited)
Mannequin
Movie · as Joan Herrick as a baby (uncredited)