Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 14, 1922
Died
May 23, 2004
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Credits
32 titles
Trudy Marshall
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.
Known For
Filmography
Willa
Lady Trucker
Starsky & Hutch
Once Is Not Enough
Myrna
Married Too Young
Susan Newton
The Donna Reed Show
1104 Sutton Road
I'll See You in My Dreams
Frankie Mason (uncredited)
Mark of the Gorilla
Barbara Bentley
Barbary Pirate
Anne Ridgeway
Shamrock Hill
Carol Judson
Disaster
Jerry Hansford
The Fuller Brush Man
Sara Franzen
Beyond Our Own
Ann Rogers
Key Witness
Marge Andrews
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
Nina
Too Many Winners
Phyllis Hamilton
Alias Mr. Twilight
Corky Corcoran
Boston Blackie and the Law
Irene
Dragonwyck
Elizabeth Van Borden
Talk About a Lady
Toni Marlowe
Sentimental Journey
Ruth
The Dolly Sisters
Lenora Baldwin
Circumstantial Evidence
Agnes Hannon
Roger Touhy, Gangster
Gloria
Ladies of Washington
Carol Northrup
The Purple Heart
Mrs. Ross
The Fighting Sullivans
Genevieve 'Gen' Sullivan
The Dancing Masters
Trudy Harlan
Heaven Can Wait
Jane Van Cleve - Jack's Wife (uncredited)
Coney Island
Girl Friend
Crash Dive
Telephone Operator
Springtime in the Rockies
Marilyn Crothers (uncredited)