Trudy Marshall
Actor
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.
Filmography
Dragonwyck
as Elizabeth Van Borden 1946
The Dancing Masters
as Trudy Harlan 1943
Crash Dive
as Telephone Operator 1943
The Fighting Sullivans
as Genevieve 'Gen' Sullivan 1944
Once Is Not Enough
as Myrna 1975
I'll See You in My Dreams
as Frankie Mason (uncredited) 1951
The Purple Heart
as Mrs. Ross 1944
Key Witness
as Marge Andrews 1947
Springtime in the Rockies
as Marilyn Crothers (uncredited) 1942
The Dolly Sisters
as Lenora Baldwin 1945
Mark of the Gorilla
as Barbara Bentley 1950
Coney Island
as Girl Friend 1943
Circumstantial Evidence
as Agnes Hannon 1945
Boston Blackie and the Law
as Irene 1946
Alias Mr. Twilight
as Corky Corcoran 1946
The Fuller Brush Man
as Sara Franzen 1948