Trudy Marshall

Acting

Born February 14, 1922, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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

• 1979Willa — Lady Trucker
• 1975Once Is Not Enough — Myrna
• Starsky & Hutch
• 1962Married Too Young — Susan Newton
• 19581104 Sutton Road
• The Donna Reed Show
• 1951I'll See You in My Dreams — Frankie Mason (uncredited)
• 1950Mark of the Gorilla — Barbara Bentley
• 1949Barbary Pirate — Anne Ridgeway
• 1949Shamrock Hill — Carol Judson
• 1948Disaster — Jerry Hansford
• 1948The Fuller Brush Man — Sara Franzen
• 1947Beyond Our Own — Ann Rogers
• 1947Joe Palooka in the Knockout — Nina
• 1947Key Witness — Marge Andrews
• 1947Too Many Winners — Phyllis Hamilton
• 1946Alias Mr. Twilight — Corky Corcoran
• 1946Boston Blackie and the Law — Irene
• 1946Dragonwyck — Elizabeth Van Borden
• 1946Sentimental Journey — Ruth
• 1946Talk About a Lady — Toni Marlowe
• 1945Circumstantial Evidence — Agnes Hannon
• 1945The Dolly Sisters — Lenora Baldwin
• 1944Ladies of Washington — Carol Northrup
• 1944Roger Touhy, Gangster — Gloria
• 1944The Fighting Sullivans — Genevieve 'Gen' Sullivan
• 1944The Purple Heart — Mrs. Ross
• 1943Coney Island — Girl Friend
• 1943Crash Dive — Telephone Operator
• 1943Heaven Can Wait — Jane Van Cleve - Jack's Wife (uncredited)
• 1943The Dancing Masters — Trudy Harlan
• 1942Springtime in the Rockies — Marilyn Crothers (uncredited)