Marcia Mae Jones | |
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.jpg) Jones inLet's Go Collegiate (1941) | |
| Born | Marcia Mae Jones (1924-08-01)August 1, 1924 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died | September 2, 2007(2007-09-02) (aged 83) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1926–1983 |
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| Children | 2 |
Marcia Mae Jones (August 1, 1924 – September 2, 2007) was an American film and television actress whose prolific career spanned 57 years.
Jones was the youngest of four children born to actress Freda Jones. All three of her siblings, Margaret, Macon, and Marvin Jones, were also child actors. Their relationship was strained by their unequal status in the film world. "I constantly heard, 'You've got to be quiet; Marcia Mae has to learn her lines.' It was Marcia Mae this and Marcia Mae that. That's where the jealousy from my siblings came from. They blamed me for it, when it was my mother who was doing it."[1]
Jones made her film debut at the age of two in the 1926 filmMannequin. She appeared in films such asKing of Jazz (1930),Street Scene (1931),[2] andNight Nurse (1931) before rising to child stardom in the 1930s with roles inThe Champ (1931) and, alongsideShirley Temple inHeidi (1937) andThe Little Princess (1939).[3] She also starred in films such asThe Garden of Allah (1936),These Three (1936), andThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938).
Jones blossomed into a wide-eyed, blonde, wholesome-looking teenager, and worked steadily in motion pictures through her late teens. She appeared inFirst Love (1939), in support ofDeanna Durbin. In 1940,Monogram Pictures signed her to co-star withJackie Moran in a few rustic romances; when this series lapsed, both Jones and Moran joined Monogram's popular action-comedy series starringFrankie Darro.
As a young adult, she continued to work in motion pictures, notably inNine Girls (1944) andArson, Inc. (1948). Like many familiar faces of the 1940s, she appeared on numerous television programs. In 1951 she appeared as comic foil toBuster Keaton in Keaton's filmed TV series. She went on to work in such top-rated shows asThe Cisco Kid,The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok,The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show,Peyton Place, andGeneral Hospital. Her last major role was in theBarbra Streisand filmThe Way We Were in 1973.[4]
Jones was married to Robert Chic and had two sons with him. Her second marriage was to television writer Bill Davenport.[2]
On September 2, 2007, Jones died in Woodland Hills, California, of complications of pneumonia. She was 83.[5]
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