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- A bitter custody battle ensued, and accounts of it saturated newspapers nationwide in the summer of 1936. Edith’s mother claimed that the girl had been abducted by her grandmother, a charge that the authorities of the period took seriously in the wake of the Lindbergh kidnapping four years before.
Columbia now gave her a seven-year contract, and her mother reappeared to sue for custody, a case driven, said Fellows later, by "my money, past,present and future." In court, she testified:...
- Tom Vallance
Jul 2, 2011 · Edith Fellows, a child star of the 1930s who was known for playing orphans and urchins but whose own life was more Dickensian than that of any character she portrayed, died on June 26 in Los...
Jun 30, 2011 · LOS ANGELES – Edith Fellows, a child actress who was the subject of a famous 1936 custody case, has died. She was 88. Her daughter, Kathy Fields Lander, tells the Los Angeles Times that...
Child actress Edith Fellows had made about 30 films when she starred at 13 in a heart-wrenching high-profile, 1936 custody case driven, she later said, by "my money - past, present and future." Abandoned as an infant by her mother, she was being raised by her paternal grandmother, who brought Edith, then 4, to Hollywood from South Carolina ...
- David Lobosco
Jun 30, 2011 · Child actress Edith Fellows had made about 30 films by the age of 13 when she starred in a heart-wrenching, high-profile 1936 custody case, which was driven, she later said, by “my money —...
Jun 30, 2011 · LOS ANGELES — Child actress Edith Fellows had made about 30 films when she starred at 13 in a heart-wrenching high-profile, 1936 custody case driven, she Bangor, ME 54
Jun 30, 2011 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — Edith Fellows, a child actress who was the subject of a famous 1936 custody case, has died. She was 88. Her daughter, Kathy Fields Lander, tells the Los Angeles Times...
