Marion Shilling

Marion Shilling

1910-12-03 – 2004-11-06 (age 93) Denver, Colorado, USA
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Biography

Marion Shilling received a Golden Boot award at the 2002 awards ceremony.

She passed away on November 6, 2004 at the Torrance, California Memorial Medical Centre.

Shilling was born as Marion Schilling in Denver, Colorado in 1910 as per the Social Security Death Index under the name COOK, MARION S., although some biographers had formerly cited 1911 or 1914. She started her acting career as a stage actress, starring in stage plays such as Miss Lulu Betts and Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. In 1929 she received her first screen role in Wise Girls. After a couple of roles in other films, she starred opposite William Powell in the 1930 crime drama Shadow of the Law. That movie springboarded her into roles as a B-movie heroine.

In 1931 she was one of thirteen girls selected as "WAMPAS Baby Stars", a list that included future Hollywood star Marian Marsh. From 1930 to 1936 she starred in forty two films, mostly westerns or mysteries. She often starred opposite Tom Keene and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams. In the 1934 film serial The Red Rider, she starred opposite early western film legend Buck Jones, with a supporting cast that included William Desmond and football legend Jim Thorpe.

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Known For

Niagara Falls
Rio Rattler
Rio Rattler

1935

as Mary Adams

Gun Play
Gun Play

1935

as Madge Holt

Swellhead
Swellhead

1930

as Mamie Judd

The Common Law
The Common Law

1931

as Stephanie Brown

Lord Byron of Broadway
Young Donovan's Kid
Young Donovan's Kid

1931

as Kitty Costello

Shadow of the Law
Shadow of the Law

1930

as Edith Wentworth

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A Parisian Romance

1932

as Claudette

The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
I'll Name the Murderer
Blazing Guns
Blazing Guns

1935

as Betty Lou Rickard

Cavalcade of the West
Cavalcade of the West

1936

as Mary Christman

Curtain at Eight
Curtain at Eight

1933

as Anice Cresmer

Sundown Trail
Sundown Trail

1931

as Dorothy 'Dottie' Beals

Wise Girls
Wise Girls

1929

as Ruth Bence

Fighting to Live
Fighting to Live

1934

as Mary Carson

The County Fair
The County Fair

1932

as Alice Ainsworth

Society Fever
Society Fever

1935

as Victoria Vandergriff