Trudy Marshall

Trudy Marshall

Birthday: 1922-02-14

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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.

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Dragonwyck
Dragonwyck

A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be go...

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Circumstantial Evidence
Circumstantial Evidence

A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an...

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I'll See You in My Dreams
I'll See You in My Dreams

Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression....

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The Purple Heart
The Purple Heart

This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war....

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The Fighting Sullivans
The Fighting Sullivans

The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depressi...

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Disaster
Disaster

A construction worker wanted by the authorities is vindicated by virtue of his heroism when an airpl...

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Key Witness
Key Witness

A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit....

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Boston Blackie and the Law
Boston Blackie and the Law

Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate an opportunity to escape...

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The Dancing Masters
The Dancing Masters

The Dancing Masters is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team running a ba...

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Ladies of Washington
Ladies of Washington

The new boarder at a Washington, D.C. rooming house for women likes the fast life, but her recreatio...

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Roger Touhy, Gangster
Roger Touhy, Gangster

Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most po...

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Springtime in the Rockies
Springtime in the Rockies

Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky ta...

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Mark of the Gorilla
Mark of the Gorilla

Nazis dressed to look like Great Apes are looking for gold, and Jungle Jim must stop them....

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Sentimental Journey
Sentimental Journey

An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she...

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Alias Mr. Twilight
Alias Mr. Twilight

Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his b...

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Shamrock Hill
Shamrock Hill

A young girl holds a special place in her heart for a place called Shamrock HIll, and she tries to s...

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Once Is Not Enough
Once Is Not Enough

An over-the-hill movie producer marries a wealthy, spiteful woman and closeted lesbian just to pleas...

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Talk About a Lady
Talk About a Lady

A country girl, wanting to break into show-business, comes to New York City and, by her actions, man...

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Too Many Winners
Too Many Winners

Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track....

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Married Too Young
Married Too Young

Two high-school sweethearts get married, then find that married life isn't what they thought it woul...

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Willa
Willa

A truck-stop waitress, determined to make a better life for her young children after being abandoned...

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The Fuller Brush Man
The Fuller Brush Man

Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make goo...

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1104 Sutton Road
1104 Sutton Road

Self-improvement film funded by a paper company. In the story a dissatisfied factory worker imagines...

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The Dolly Sisters
The Dolly Sisters

Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with...

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Coney Island
Coney Island

Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at f...

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Heaven Can Wait
Heaven Can Wait

Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is ...

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Crash Dive
Crash Dive

A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant ra...

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Barbary Pirate
Barbary Pirate

U.S. agent Major Tom Blake is sent to Tripoli to uncover who it is in Washington that is tipping off...

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Joe Palooka in the Knockout
Joe Palooka in the Knockout

The third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby ...

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Beyond Our Own
Beyond Our Own

This latter-day parable focuses on two brothers. Peter Rogers is an ambitious, hard-driving attorney...

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