Marcia Mae Jones
Marcia Mae Jones as "Mary Lou" and Jackie Cooper as "Dink Purcell" in King Vidor's American Pre-Code film 'The Champ' (1931), starring Wallace Beery as "Andy 'Champ' Purcell", and also featuring Irene Rich as "Linda Purcell", Roscoe Ates as "Sponge", Edward Brophy as "Tim", Hale Hamilton as "Tony", and Jesse Scott as "Jonah".
Beery won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance (sharing the prize with Fredric March for 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'), screenwriter Frances Marion won the Academy Award for Best Story, and the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and for Best Director.for King Vidor. In February of 2020, the film was shown at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, as part of a retrospective dedicated to King Vidor's career.
Marcia Mae Jones (August 1, 1924 – September 2, 2007) was an American film and television actress whose prolific career spanned 57 years, from childhood into adulthood.
My favourite performance of Marcia Mae Jones' was as the young girl "Rosalie Wells" in William Wyler's American drama film 'These Three' (1936). The screenplay by Lillian Hellman was adapted from her own 1934 Broadway play 'The Children's Hour'. The Film starred Miriam Hopkins as "Martha Dobie", Merle Oberon as "Karen Wright", Joel McCrea as "Dr. Joseph Cardin", and it featured in supporting roles, Catherine Doucet as "Mrs. Lily Mortar", Alma Kruger as "Mrs. Amelia Tilford", Bonita Granville as "Mary Tilford", who was nominated for and Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for her performance, Carmencita Johnson as "Evelyn Munn", Mary Anne Durkin as "Joyce Walton", Margaret Hamilton as "Agatha", and Walter Brennan as a taxi driver.
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