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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 14, 1922
Died
May 23, 2004
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Gertrude Madeline Marshall
- Gertrude Madeline "Trudy" Marshall
Trudy Marshall
0.2 Popularity
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
3.0
Lady Trucker
Willa
1979
7.3
Starsky & Hutch
1975
5.0
Myrna
Once Is Not Enough
1975
5.3
Susan Newton
Married Too Young
1962
6.2
The Donna Reed Show
1958
0.0
1104 Sutton Road
1958
4.7
Frankie Mason (uncredited)
I'll See You in My Dreams
1951
3.6
Barbara Bentley
Mark of the Gorilla
1950
6.0
Anne Ridgeway
Barbary Pirate
1949
1.0
Carol Judson
Shamrock Hill
1949
Credits
Willa
as Lady Trucker
1979
3.0
Starsky & Hutch
1975
7.3
Once Is Not Enough
as Myrna
1975
5.0
Married Too Young
as Susan Newton
1962
5.3
The Donna Reed Show
1958
6.2
1104 Sutton Road
1958
0.0
I'll See You in My Dreams
as Frankie Mason (uncredited)
1951
4.7
Mark of the Gorilla
as Barbara Bentley
1950
3.6
Barbary Pirate
as Anne Ridgeway
1949
6.0
Shamrock Hill
as Carol Judson
1949
1.0
Disaster
as Jerry Hansford
1948
5.0
The Fuller Brush Man
as Sara Franzen
1948
6.0
Beyond Our Own
as Ann Rogers
1947
0.0
Key Witness
as Marge Andrews
1947
4.5
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
as Nina
1947
6.0
Too Many Winners
as Phyllis Hamilton
1947
5.5
Alias Mr. Twilight
as Corky Corcoran
1946
5.3
Boston Blackie and the Law
as Irene
1946
6.0
Dragonwyck
as Elizabeth Van Borden
1946
6.7
Talk About a Lady
as Toni Marlowe
1946
3.0
Sentimental Journey
as Ruth
1946
6.4
The Dolly Sisters
as Lenora Baldwin
1945
5.2
Circumstantial Evidence
as Agnes Hannon
1945
4.8
Roger Touhy, Gangster
as Gloria
1944
6.0
Ladies of Washington
as Carol Northrup
1944
5.5
The Purple Heart
as Mrs. Ross
1944
6.0
The Fighting Sullivans
as Genevieve 'Gen' Sullivan
1944
6.0
The Dancing Masters
as Trudy Harlan
1943
6.2
Heaven Can Wait
as Jane Van Cleve - Jack's Wife (uncredited)
1943
6.9
Coney Island
as Girl Friend
1943
6.1
Crash Dive
as Telephone Operator
1943
6.3
Springtime in the Rockies
as Marilyn Crothers (uncredited)
1942
6.7