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.
Known For
The Donna Reed Show
Starsky & Hutch
Once Is Not Enough
Dragonwyck
Heaven Can Wait
Crash Dive
Coney Island
I'll See You in My Dreams
All Movies (30)
- Willa1979 · as Lady Trucker
- Once Is Not Enough1975 · as Myrna
- Married Too Young1962 · as Susan Newton
- 1104 Sutton Road1958
- I'll See You in My Dreams1951 · as Frankie Mason (uncredited)
- Mark of the Gorilla1950 · as Barbara Bentley
- Barbary Pirate1949 · as Anne Ridgeway
- Shamrock Hill1949 · as Carol Judson
- Disaster1948 · as Jerry Hansford
- The Fuller Brush Man1948 · as Sara Franzen
- Beyond Our Own1947 · as Ann Rogers
- Key Witness1947 · as Marge Andrews
- Joe Palooka in the Knockout1947 · as Nina
- Too Many Winners1947 · as Phyllis Hamilton
- Alias Mr. Twilight1946 · as Corky Corcoran
- Boston Blackie and the Law1946 · as Irene
- Dragonwyck1946 · as Elizabeth Van Borden
- Talk About a Lady1946 · as Toni Marlowe
- Sentimental Journey1946 · as Ruth
- The Dolly Sisters1945 · as Lenora Baldwin
- Circumstantial Evidence1945 · as Agnes Hannon
- Roger Touhy, Gangster1944 · as Gloria
- Ladies of Washington1944 · as Carol Northrup
- The Purple Heart1944 · as Mrs. Ross
- The Fighting Sullivans1944 · as Genevieve 'Gen' Sullivan
- The Dancing Masters1943 · as Trudy Harlan
- Heaven Can Wait1943 · as Jane Van Cleve - Jack's Wife (uncredited)
- Coney Island1943 · as Girl Friend
- Crash Dive1943 · as Telephone Operator
- Springtime in the Rockies1942 · as Marilyn Crothers (uncredited)