Acting · Los Angeles, California, USA · Born August 1, 1924
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.
MovieThat's Sexploitation!
2013
as archive footage
Shirley Temple: The Biggest Little Star
1996
as Self
MovieShirley Temple: America's Little Darling
1993
as Self
TVSimon & Simon
1981
MovieThe Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe
1974
as Sarah
MovieThe Way We Were
1973
as Peggy Vanderbilt
MovieA Great American Tragedy
1972
as Claire
TVThe Streets of San Francisco
1972
TVCannon
1971
MovieLive a Little, Love a Little
1968
as Woman #1 (uncredited)
TVFamily Affair
1966
TVGomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1964
as Waitress
TVMister Ed
1961
TVMy Three Sons
1960
Meet the Family
1954
as Candy
MovieThe Star
1952
as Waitress (uncredited)
MovieThe Yellow Haired Kid
1952
as Amy
MovieChicago Calling
1951
as Peggy (as Marsha Jones)
TVRacket Squad
1951
TVThe Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
MovieLife with Buster Keaton
1951
MovieHi-Jacked
1950
as Jean Harper (as Marsha Jones)
MovieThe Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
1950
as Katie O'Grady
MovieArson, Inc.
1949
as Betty - Fender's Secretary
MovieTucson
1949
as Polly Johnson
MovieTrouble Preferred
1948
as Virginia Evans
MovieStreet Corner
1948
as Lois Marsh
MovieThe Fabulous Fraud
1948
as Blind Girl
MovieSnafu
1945
as Martha
MovieLady in the Death House
1944
as Suzy Kirk Logan
MovieNine Girls
1944
as Shirley Berke
MovieTop Man
1943
as Erna Lane
MovieNobody's Darling
1943
as Lois
MovieThe Youngest Profession
1943
as Vera Bailey
MovieSecrets of a Co-Ed
1942
as Blonde Co-Ed in Black Outfit [Script Name: Laura Wright]
MovieLet's Go Collegiate
1941
as Bess Martin
MovieThe Gang's All Here
1941
as Patsy Wallace
MovieNice Girl?
1941
as Jane's Friend at Benefit
MovieThe Old Swimmin' Hole
1940
as Betty Elliott
MovieHaunted House
1940
as Millie Henshaw
MovieAnne of Windy Poplars
1940
as Jen Pringle
MovieTomboy
1940
as Pat Kelly
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1939
as Marilee
MovieFirst Love
1939
as Marcia Parker
MovieThe Flying Irishman
1939
as Teenager
MovieThe Little Princess
1939
as Lavinia
MovieBarefoot Boy
1938
as Pige Blaine
MovieMad About Music
1938
as Olga
MovieThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1938
as Mary Sawyer
MovieLady Behave!
1937
as Patricia Cormack
MovieHeidi
1937
as Klara Sesemann
MovieThe Life of Emile Zola
1937
as Helen Richards
MovieMountain Justice
1937
as Bethie Harkins
MovieTwo Wise Maids
1937
as Geraldine 'Jerry ' Karns
MovieThese Three
1936
as Rosalie Wells
MovieThis Is the Life
1935
as Child
MovieA Dog of Flanders
1935
as Little Girl at Party (uncredited)
MovieImitation of Life
1934
as Peola's Frontrow Classmate (uncredited)
MovieDoctor Bull
1933
as Ruth
MovieMush and Milk
1933
MovieEmployees' Entrance
1933
as Flower Girl at Wedding (uncredited)
MovieBirthday Blues
1932
as Girl with Whistle
MovieWhat Price Hollywood?
1932
as Flower Girl at Wedding (uncredited)
MovieThe Champ
1931
as Mary Lou Carleton
MovieStreet Scene
1931
MovieNight Nurse
1931
as Nanny Ritchey (uncredited)
MovieKing of Jazz
1930
as Child ('Bridal Veil') (uncredited)
MovieThe Bishop Murder Case
1929
as Hungry Child in Park (uncredited)
MovieMannequin
1926
as Joan Herrick as a baby (uncredited)
