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Marcia Mae Jones

Jones' first husband was an officer in the Merchant Marines. The couple had son Denny in 1945, followed by Tim in 1947. Her second husband was screenwriter Bill Davenport.
She was originally cast to play Becky Thatcher in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938), but after a growth spurt, the studio thought she was too tall for the role and recast her as Mary Sawyer.
Interviewed in "Growing Up on the Set: Interviews with 39 Former Child Actors of Classic Film and Television" by Tom Goldrup and Jim Goldrup (McFarland, 2002).
The daughter of actress and persistent stage mother Freda Jones, and sister of Margaret Jones, Marvin Jones, and Macon Jones, Marcia developed personal and emotional problems later in life, which triggered a severe alcohol problem. She later received a degree in religious science and conquered her dependency.
Was in three Oscar Best Picture nominees: The Champ (1931), Imitation of Life (1934), and The Life of Emile Zola (1937); the last of these won Best Picture.

[on her parents] I wasn't allowed to do what most kids were allowed to do. My mother pushed me, but my father was kind of in awe of me. He really didn't know quite what to do with it all. But my mother was definitely a motion picture mother. She loved the motion picture.
[on her education] Schooling brought me a lot of confusion when I was very small because I was still in public school. When I was in school I wanted to be back acting, and when I was acting I wanted to be back in public school. Later on we had schooling on the lot. For Shirley Temple it worked great, for Jane Withers it worked great, but I was one of those kids who didn't like school.
[on her family] I don't know if I could have done as well as my mother did had the tables been reversed, but she did love me way too much and it did cause trouble and jealousy with my brothers and sister. I can understand today how they must have felt. It was always, "Marcia Mae has to go to work, Marcia Mae's making the money".