Brenda Marshall
Date of birth: 1915-09-29
Place of birth: Negros, Philippines
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Ardis Ankerson Gaines
Biography
Brenda Marshall (September 29, 1915 – July 30, 1992) was an American film actress. Born Ardis Ankerson in Negros, Philippines, Marshall made her first film appearance in the 1939 Espionage Agent. The following year, she played the leading lady to Errol Flynn in The Sea Hawk. After divorcing actor Richard Gaines in 1940, she married the actor William Holden in 1941 and her own career quickly slowed. She starred opposite James Cagney in the 1942 film Captains of the Clouds. The Constant Nymph (1943) was a popular success but she virtually retired after this, appearing in only four more inconsequential films. Among these, she played scientist Nora Goodrich in the grade-B 1946 cult classic Strange Impersonation. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brenda Marshall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Strange Impersonation
1946-03-16
A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her sche
Captains of the Clouds
1942-02-12
Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and t
The Sea Hawk
1940-08-10
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with D
You Can't Escape Forever
1942-10-10
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpi
Background to Danger
1943-07-03
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
Whispering Smith
1948-12-09
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and be
Footsteps in the Dark
1941-03-08
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police att
Highway West
1941-08-07
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
The Smiling Ghost
1941-09-06
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hir
The Constant Nymph
1943-06-23
The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. W
Espionage Agent
1939-09-30
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplo
The Man Who Talked Too Much
1940-07-16
A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients a
East of the River
1940-11-09
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing co
Paris After Dark
1943-10-15
Andre Marbel is the upper-class doctor who is able to continue his practice above suspicion even tho
Money and the Woman
1940-08-17
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
South of Suez
1940-11-16
Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from t
Singapore Woman
1941-05-17
A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.
The Iroquois Trail
1950-06-15
An American scout and his Indian friend help the English troops against the French during the French
Blackwell's Island
1939-01-24
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
Breakdowns of 1941
1941-11-14
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.
Wings Up
1943-05-27
Clark Gable stars in this propaganda short about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Force