Trudy Marshall

Trudy Marshall

  • Birthday: 1922-02-14
  • Deathday: 2004-05-23
  • Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
  • Also know as: Gertrude Madeline 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.

Filmography

Dragonwyck

1946

As Elizabeth Van Borden

Circumstantial Evidence

1945

As Agnes Hannon

The Purple Heart

1944

As Mrs. Ross

The Fighting Sullivans

1944

As Genevieve 'Gen' Sullivan

Key Witness

1947

As Marge Andrews

The Dancing Masters

1943

As Trudy Harlan

Ladies of Washington

1944

As Carol Northrup

Roger Touhy, Gangster

1944

As Gloria

Mark of the Gorilla

1950

As Barbara Bentley

Sentimental Journey

1946

As Ruth

Alias Mr. Twilight

1946

As Corky Corcoran

Too Many Winners

1947

As Phyllis Hamilton

Married Too Young

1962

As Susan Newton

The Fuller Brush Man

1948

As Sara Franzen

The Dolly Sisters

1945

As Lenora Baldwin

Coney Island

1943

As Girl Friend

Heaven Can Wait

1943

As Jane Van Cleve - Jack's Wife (uncredited)

Crash Dive

1943

As Telephone Operator

Barbary Pirate

1949

As Anne Ridgeway

Beyond Our Own

1947

As Ann Rogers

I'll See You in My Dreams

1951

As Frankie Mason (uncredited)

Disaster

1948

As Jerry Hansford

Shamrock Hill

1949

As Carol Judson

Talk About a Lady

1946

As Toni Marlowe

Once Is Not Enough

1975

As Myrna

Willa

1979

As Lady Trucker

Springtime in the Rockies

1942

As Marilyn Crothers (uncredited)

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