1922-02-14 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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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Willa | Lady Trucker | 1979-03-17 |
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Once Is Not Enough | Myrna | 1975-06-20 |
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Married Too Young | Susan Newton | 1962-01-01 |
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I'll See You in My Dreams | Frankie Mason (uncredited) | 1951-12-06 |
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Mark of the Gorilla | Barbara Bentley | 1950-01-12 |
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Barbary Pirate | Anne Ridgeway | 1949-11-10 |
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Shamrock Hill | Carol Judson | 1949-02-01 |
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Disaster | Jerry Hansford | 1948-12-03 |
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The Fuller Brush Man | Sara Franzen | 1948-06-01 |
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Beyond Our Own | Ann Rogers | 1947-11-16 |
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Joe Palooka in the Knockout | Nina | 1947-09-20 |
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Too Many Winners | Phyllis Hamilton | 1947-05-24 |
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Key Witness | Marge Andrews | 1947-10-09 |
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Sentimental Journey | Ruth | 1946-03-06 |
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Alias Mr. Twilight | Corky Corcoran | 1946-12-24 |
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Talk About a Lady | Toni Marlowe | 1946-03-28 |
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Dragonwyck | Elizabeth Van Borden | 1946-04-19 |
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Boston Blackie and the Law | Irene | 1946-12-12 |
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Circumstantial Evidence | Agnes Hannon | 1945-04-20 |
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The Dolly Sisters | Lenora Baldwin | 1945-11-14 |
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Ladies of Washington | Carol Northrup | 1944-05-25 |
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The Fighting Sullivans | Genevieve 'Gen' Sullivan | 1944-02-03 |
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The Purple Heart | Mrs. Ross | 1944-02-25 |
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Roger Touhy, Gangster | Gloria | 1944-06-03 |
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Crash Dive | Telephone Operator | 1943-04-22 |
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Coney Island | Girl Friend | 1943-06-18 |
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Heaven Can Wait | Jane Van Cleve - Jack's Wife (uncredited) | 1943-08-05 |
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The Dancing Masters | Trudy Harlan | 1943-11-19 |
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Springtime in the Rockies | Marilyn Crothers (uncredited) | 1942-11-06 |
