Edith Fellows

**Edith Marilyn Fellows** (20 ga Mayu, 1923 &#x2013; 26 ga Yuni, 2011)  'yar wasan kwaikwayo ce ta Amurka wadda ta zama tauraruwar yara a shekarun 1930. An fi saninta da rawar marayu da 'yan mata masu launin fata a titi, Fellows 'yar wasan kwaikwayo ce mai bayyana ra'ayi tare da muryar waƙa mai kyau.  Ta fara fitowa a fim ɗinta tana da shekaru biyar a cikin gajeren fim ɗin Charley Chase *Movie Night* (1929). Matsayinta na farko da aka yaba a fim ɗin shine *[[The Rider of Death Valley]]* (1932). Zuwa 1935, ta fito a fina-finai sama da ashirin. Fim ɗinta tare da Claudette Colbert da Melvyn Douglas a cikin *[[She Married Her Boss]]* (1935) ya lashe mata kwangilar shekaru bakwai tare da Columbia Pictures,  kwangilar farko da aka bai wa yaro. 

Fellows sun fito a cikin jerin manyan ayyuka na Columbia, ciki har da *Tugboat Princess* (1936), *Little Miss Roughneck* (1938), da *The Little Adventuress* (1938).  Fim ɗinta a matsayin maraya mai tsufa tare da Bing Crosby a cikin *Pennies from Heaven* (1936) ya sami yabo mai zafi. A shekarar 1942, ta fito a cikin fina-finai biyu na Gene Autry, *Heart of the Rio Grande* da *Stardust on the Sage*, wanda ya nuna muryarta mai kyau ta rera waƙa. Aikinta na wasan kwaikwayo ya katse a shekarun 1940 saboda matsalolin da suka shafi rayuwa, rayuwarta ta zama Dickensian fiye da haruffan da ta nuna a allon.  A shekarun 1980, ta koma yin wasan kwaikwayo na lokaci-lokaci a cikin shirye-shiryen talabijin. Tsakanin 1929 da 1995, Fellows ta fito a cikin fina-finai sama da saba'in da shirye-shiryen talabijin. &#x5B; ** &#x5D;

## Shekarun farko
An haifi Edith Marilyn Fellows a ranar 20 ga Mayu, 1923, a Boston, Massachusetts, ɗa ɗaya tilo ga Willis da Harriet Fellows. Mahaifiyarta ta yi watsi da ita 'yan watanni bayan haihuwarta. Tana da shekaru biyu, ta ƙaura zuwa Charlotte, North Carolina, tare da mahaifinta da kakarta ta uba, Elizabeth Fellows. 

Tun tana ƙarama, ta ɗauki darussan rawa don gyara tafiyarta mai yatsan kurciya. Tana da shekaru huɗu, wani mai son hazaka ya gan ta, wanda ya shirya gwajin allo na Hollywood akan dala hamsin. Ita da kakarta sun yi tafiya zuwa Hollywood ta jirgin ƙasa don gano an yi musu zamba.  Yayin da kakarta ke aiki a matsayin mai tsaftace gida, ta zauna tare da wani iyali na gida wanda ɗansu yana aiki a matsayin ƙarin fim. Wata rana ta raka shi zuwa situdiyo. Ba tare da an tambaye ta ba, ta fara rawa da waƙa a gaban daraktan da ya ruɗe. Lokacin da yaron ya yi rashin lafiya 'yan kwanaki bayan haka, situdiyon ya aika da saƙon "Aika yarinyar."  Ba da daɗewa ba aka saka ta a cikin fim ɗin ɗan barkwanci Charley Chase mai suna *Movie Night* (1929), inda ta taka rawar ƙawar 'yar Charley a wani fim na iyali da ke zuwa fina-finai.  

Ba da daɗewa ba aka sake samun wasu fina-finai a fim, ciki har da *Daddy Long Legs* (1931), *The Rider of Death Valley* (1932), wasan barkwanci guda biyu na Our Gang, *Shivering Shakespeare* (1930) da *Mush and Milk* (1933), da *Jane Eyre* (1934) a Monogram Pictures, inda ta taka rawar Mr. Rochester's ward, wata mai son aure da ke ƙoƙarin haɗa mai kula da ita da Jane.  A wannan shekarar, Fellows ta fito tare da W.&nbsp;C Fields a cikin *Mrs Wiggs na Cabbage Patch*, suna taka rawar Australia Wiggs, ɗaya daga cikin yara biyar da mahaifiyarsu mai talauci ta rene ta a wani gari mai cunkoso.  A shekarar 1935, ta yi fina-finai sama da ashirin kuma ta shirya don samun nasara. 

## Tauraron yaro
A shekarar 1935, Fellows ta fito a cikin fim ɗin Gregory La Cava mai suna *She Married Her Boss* (1935) a matsayin 'yar Melvyn Douglas mai yaudara wadda aka horar da ita lokacin da Claudette Colbert ta "fito da hasken rana" da goga. Waƙarta ta sa ta sami kwangilar shekaru bakwai da Columbia Pictures kuma ta zama tauraruwa tana da shekaru goma sha biyu.  Tare da fina-finanta na farko na Columbia, *One-Way Ticket*, *And So They Were Married*, da *Tugboat Princess,* an ci gaba da buga ta a matsayin maraya ko urchin na titi. A kaka ta 1936, shahararta ta samu taimako sosai daga rawar da ta taka tare da Bing Crosby a cikin *fim ɗin Pennies from Heaven*, inda ta taka rawa marainiya mai tauri, wacce Crosby ke waƙar da ke kare ta.  Yayin da a cikin fina-finan da suka gabata, an shawo kan halinta mai ƙarfi da bugun sauri, a cikin wannan fim ɗin, ta "hutu da rawar Crosby, musamman waƙar taken da aka rera mata a lokacin tsawa."  A cikin sharhinsa a cikin *Jaridar New York Times*, Frank S. Nugent ya ware rubuce-rubucen ayyukan Fellows:

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