1910-12-03 Denver, Colorado, USA
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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Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl | Self | 1999-06-14 |
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I'll Name the Murderer | Smitty | 1936-01-26 |
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Romance Rides the Range | Carol Marland | 1936-09-01 |
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The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand | Verna Gironda | 1936-04-17 |
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The Idaho Kid | Ruth Endicott | 1936-08-05 |
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Cavalcade of the West | Mary Christman | 1936-10-01 |
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Blazing Guns | Betty Lou Rickard | 1935-02-03 |
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Gun Smoke | Jean Culverson | 1935-05-01 |
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A Shot in the Dark | Jean Coates | 1935-01-31 |
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Gun Play | Madge Holt | 1935-12-02 |
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Rio Rattler | Mary Adams | 1935-08-01 |
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The Keeper of the Bees | Louise | 1935-07-14 |
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Captured in Chinatown | Ann Parker | 1935-07-13 |
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Stone of Silver Creek | Martha Mason | 1935-04-14 |
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Society Fever | Victoria Vandergriff | 1935-07-15 |
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Elinor Norton | Publisher's Staff | 1934-11-02 |
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Inside Information | Anne Seton | 1934-09-24 |
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Thunder Over Texas | Helen Mason | 1934-10-18 |
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Fighting to Live | Mary Carson | 1934-04-06 |
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The Westerner | Juanita Barnes | 1934-12-10 |
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The Red Rider | Marie Maxwell | 1934-07-16 |
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Curtain at Eight | Anice Cresmer | 1933-10-01 |
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Rule 'Em and Weep | Ramona | 1932-05-02 |
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The Heart Punch | Kitty Doyle | 1932-10-17 |
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Shop Angel | Dorothy Hayes | 1932-03-19 |
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Niagara Falls | 1932-06-27 | |
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Gigolettes | Marion | 1932-05-23 |
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A Man's Land | Peggy Turner | 1932-06-10 |
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The County Fair | Alice Ainsworth | 1932-03-31 |
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A Parisian Romance | Claudette | 1932-10-01 |
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Young Donovan's Kid | Kitty Costello | 1931-06-06 |
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Easy to Get | Marion | 1931-12-07 |
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Beyond Victory | Ina | 1931-04-03 |
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The Common Law | Stephanie Brown | 1931-07-17 |
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Sundown Trail | Dorothy 'Dottie' Beals | 1931-09-11 |
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Take 'em and Shake 'em | 1931-09-28 | |
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Forgotten Women | Patricia Young | 1931-11-25 |
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Lord Byron of Broadway | Nancy | 1930-02-28 |
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Shadow of the Law | Edith Wentworth | 1930-06-06 |
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On Your Back | Jeanne Burke | 1930-09-14 |
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The Swellhead | Mamie Judd | 1930-03-20 |
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Wise Girls | Ruth Bence | 1929-09-21 |
