Trudy Marshall
Actor
- Born
- February 14, 1922 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Died
- May 23, 2004 (age 82)
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".
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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.
Known for
Heaven Can Wait
August 5, 1943
Dragonwyck
April 10, 1946
The Dancing Masters
November 19, 1943
Crash Dive
April 22, 1943
The Fighting Sullivans
February 3, 1944
Once Is Not Enough
June 20, 1975
I'll See You in My Dreams
December 6, 1951
The Purple Heart
February 25, 1944
Key Witness
October 9, 1947
Springtime in the Rockies
November 6, 1942
The Dolly Sisters
November 14, 1945
Coney Island
June 18, 1943
Acting30
- 1979Willa as Lady Trucker
- 1975Once Is Not Enough as Myrna
- 1962Married Too Young as Susan Newton
- 19581104 Sutton Road
- 1951I'll See You in My Dreams as Frankie Mason (uncredited)
- 1950Mark of the Gorilla as Barbara Bentley
- 1949Barbary Pirate as Anne Ridgeway
- 1949Shamrock Hill as Carol Judson
- 1948Disaster as Jerry Hansford
- 1948The Fuller Brush Man as Sara Franzen