Trudy Marshall
Born: 1922-02-14 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Died: 2004-05-23
Known For: Acting
Biography
Gertrude Madeline "Trudy" Marshall was an American actress and model. A popular magazine cigarette girl during her modeling days for Harry Conover, Marshall was at different times "The Old Gold Girl", "The Chesterfield Girl", and "The Lucky Strike Girl". Marshall was signed by 20th Century-Fox in 1942 and groomed in bit parts. She played a featured role in the World War II war drama The Fighting Sullivans, the true story of a family that lost all five enlisted sons in the sinking of the USS Juneau off Guadalcanal in November 1942. Marshall played the surviving sister Genevieve. Taking roles as a decorative ingenue for a time, Marshall later played the "other woman" in a few features. Semi-retired by the 1960s, she returned very infrequently to Hollywood. She appeared in the movie Once Is Not Enough with her daughter Deborah Raffin. Marshall was the hostess of her own radio and TV show in the 1980s in which she interviewed stars who attended special Hollywood event.
Filmography
1979
- Willa as Lady Trucker
1975
- Starsky & Hutch
- Once Is Not Enough as Myrna
1962
- Married Too Young as Susan Newton
1951
- I'll See You in My Dreams as Frankie Mason (uncredited)
1950
- Mark of the Gorilla as Barbara Bentley
1949
- Barbary Pirate as Anne Ridgeway
- Shamrock Hill as Carol Judson
1948
- The Fuller Brush Man as Sara Franzen
- Disaster as Jerry Hansford
1947
- Joe Palooka in the Knockout as Nina
- Beyond Our Own as Ann Rogers
- Too Many Winners as Phyllis Hamilton
- Key Witness as Marge Andrews
1946
- Dragonwyck as Elizabeth Van Borden
- Talk About a Lady as Toni Marlowe
- Boston Blackie and the Law as Irene
- Alias Mr. Twilight as Corky Corcoran
- Sentimental Journey as Ruth
1945
- Circumstantial Evidence as Agnes Hannon
- The Dolly Sisters as Lenora Baldwin
1944
- The Fighting Sullivans as Genevieve 'Gen' Sullivan
- The Purple Heart as Mrs. Ross
- Roger Touhy, Gangster as Gloria
- Ladies of Washington as Carol Northrup
1943
- Heaven Can Wait as Jane Van Cleve - Jack's Wife (uncredited)
- Crash Dive as Telephone Operator
- Coney Island as Girl Friend
- The Dancing Masters as Trudy Harlan
1942
- Springtime in the Rockies as Marilyn Crothers (uncredited)