Trudy Marshall

Trudy Marshall

1922-02-14 – 2004-05-23 (age 82) Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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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.

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Known For

Heaven Can Wait
Heaven Can Wait

1943

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

Crash Dive
Crash Dive

1943

as Telephone Operator

Once Is Not Enough
Once Is Not Enough

1975

as Myrna

Dragonwyck
Dragonwyck

1946

as Elizabeth Van Borden

Talk About a Lady
Talk About a Lady

1946

as Toni Marlowe

Married Too Young
Married Too Young

1962

as Susan Newton

Coney Island
Coney Island

1943

as Girl Friend

Roger Touhy, Gangster
Willa
Willa

1979

as Lady Trucker

Alias Mr. Twilight
Alias Mr. Twilight

1946

as Corky Corcoran

Circumstantial Evidence
Circumstantial Evidence

1945

as Agnes Hannon

I'll See You in My Dreams
I'll See You in My Dreams

1951

as Frankie Mason (uncredited)

Springtime in the Rockies
Springtime in the Rockies

1942

as Marilyn Crothers (uncredited)

The Fuller Brush Man
The Fuller Brush Man

1948

as Sara Franzen

Joe Palooka in the Knockout
The Fighting Sullivans
The Fighting Sullivans

1944

as Genevieve 'Gen' Sullivan

Too Many Winners
Too Many Winners

1947

as Phyllis Hamilton

Key Witness
Key Witness

1947

as Marge Andrews

Boston Blackie and the Law
Ladies of Washington
Ladies of Washington

1944

as Carol Northrup