Known for her roles in movies such as “The Champ” and “Heidi” as well as her final film appearance in “The Way We Were” in 1979, Marcia Mae Jones has lost her battle to an infection which was brought on by a bout of pneumonia.
“Former child actress Marcia Mae Jones, who was best known for starring in films like The Champ and Heidi, has died aged 83.
She made her film debut aged two in the Manhattan melodrama Mannequin, and her acting career spanned 47 years.
Jones’s last major film appearance was in the 1973 movie, The Way We Were.
She died at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in California from an infection which had been bought on by pneumonia, said her son, Tom Chic.
Although she never achieved the stardom of fellow child stars Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney, Jones played important roles in such films as The Garden of Allah, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and These Three.”
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