Trudy Marshall
Date of birth: 1922-02-14
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Gertrude Madeline Marshall, Gertrude Madeline "Trudy" 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.
Movie Credits
Dragonwyck
1946-04-19
For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, se
Circumstantial Evidence
1945-04-20
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an
I'll See You in My Dreams
1951-12-06
Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.
The Purple Heart
1944-02-25
This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war.
The Fighting Sullivans
1944-02-03
The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depressi
Disaster
1948-12-03
A construction worker wanted by the authorities is vindicated by virtue of his heroism when an airpl
Key Witness
1947-10-09
A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.
Boston Blackie and the Law
1946-12-12
Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate an opportunity to escape
The Dancing Masters
1943-11-19
The Dancing Masters is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team running a ba
Ladies of Washington
1944-05-25
The new boarder at a Washington, D.C. rooming house for women likes the fast life, but her recreatio
Roger Touhy, Gangster
1944-06-03
Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most po
Springtime in the Rockies
1942-11-06
Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky ta
Mark of the Gorilla
1950-01-12
Nazis dressed to look like Great Apes are looking for gold, and Jungle Jim must stop them.
Sentimental Journey
1946-03-06
An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she
Alias Mr. Twilight
1946-12-24
Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his b
Shamrock Hill
1949-02-01
A young girl holds a special place in her heart for a place called Shamrock HIll, and she tries to s
Once Is Not Enough
1975-06-20
An over-the-hill movie producer marries a wealthy, spiteful woman and closeted lesbian just to pleas
Talk About a Lady
1946-03-28
A country girl, wanting to break into show-business, comes to New York City and, by her actions, man
Too Many Winners
1947-05-24
Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track.
Married Too Young
1962-01-01
Two high-school sweethearts get married, then find that married life isn't what they thought it woul
Willa
1979-03-17
A truck-stop waitress, determined to make a better life for her young children after being abandoned
The Fuller Brush Man
1948-06-01
Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make goo
1104 Sutton Road
1958-01-01
Self-improvement film funded by a paper company. In the story a dissatisfied factory worker imagines
The Dolly Sisters
1945-11-14
Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with
Coney Island
1943-06-18
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at f
Crash Dive
1943-04-22
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant ra
Heaven Can Wait
1943-08-05
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is
Barbary Pirate
1949-11-10
U.S. agent Major Tom Blake is sent to Tripoli to uncover who it is in Washington that is tipping off
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
1947-09-20
The third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby
Beyond Our Own
1947-11-16
This latter-day parable focuses on two brothers. Peter Rogers is an ambitious, hard-driving attorney