Joan Marsh

Joan Marsh was an American actress who began as a child in silent films and later worked in Hollywood sound films. Born in Porterville, California, to silent-film photographer Charles Rosher, she made an uncredited appearance in The Mad Maid of the Forest, which he was filming, and then appeared in Hearts Aflame and A Little Princess before becoming known through Mary Pickford pictures like Daddy-Long-Legs (1919) and Pollyanna (1920). She left the screen in 1921 and returned in Universal's King of Jazz, singing with Bing Crosby. In 1931 she was selected as a WAMPAS baby star. After a brief time at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ended in 1932, she freelanced in featured roles, most notably as W. C. Fields's daughter in You're Telling Me! (1934). She sang on the CBS radio program Flying Red Horse Tavern in 1936, and later appeared in the East Side Kids films Mr. Muggs Steps Out (1943) and Follow the Leader (1944) before retiring.