Marion Shilling
Acting • Born 1910-12-03 – Died 2004-11-06
Biography
Marion Shilling received a Golden Boot award at the 2002 awards ceremony. She passed away on November 6, 2004 at the Torrance, California Memorial Medical Centre. Shilling was born as Marion Schilling in Denver, Colorado in 1910 as per the Social Security Death Index under the name COOK, MARION S., although some biographers had formerly cited 1911 or 1914. She started her acting career as a stage actress, starring in stage plays such as Miss Lulu Betts and Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. In 1929 she received her first screen role in Wise Girls. After a couple of roles in other films, she starred opposite William Powell in the 1930 crime drama Shadow of the Law. That movie springboarded her into roles as a B-movie heroine. In 1931 she was one of thirteen girls selected as "WAMPAS Baby Stars", a list that included future Hollywood star Marian Marsh. From 1930 to 1936 she starred in forty two films, mostly westerns or mysteries. She often starred opposite Tom Keene and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams. In the 1934 film serial The Red Rider, she starred opposite early western film legend Buck Jones, with a supporting cast that included William Desmond and football legend Jim Thorpe.
Filmography
42 credits
A Man's Land
Movie • 1932
Peggy Turner
Cavalcade of the West
Movie • 1936
Mary Christman
Swellhead
Movie • 1930
Mamie Judd
Curtain at Eight
Movie • 1933
Anice Cresmer
Rio Rattler
Movie • 1935
Mary Adams
A Shot in the Dark
Movie • 1935
Jean Coates
The Keeper of the Bees
Movie • 1935
Louise
Captured in Chinatown
Movie • 1935
Ann Parker
Niagara Falls
Movie • 1932
Take 'em and Shake 'em
Movie • 1931
I'll Name the Murderer
Movie • 1936
Smitty
A Parisian Romance
Movie • 1932
Claudette
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
Movie • 1936
Verna Gironda
Sundown Trail
Movie • 1931
Dorothy 'Dottie' Beals
Thunder Over Texas
Movie • 1934
Helen Mason
The Idaho Kid
Movie • 1936
Ruth Endicott
Gun Play
Movie • 1935
Madge Holt
Fighting to Live
Movie • 1934
Mary Carson
Shop Angel
Movie • 1932
Dorothy Hayes
The Common Law
Movie • 1931
Stephanie Brown
Beyond Victory
Movie • 1931
Ina
Wise Girls
Movie • 1929
Ruth Bence
Gun Smoke
Movie • 1935
Jean Culverson
Elinor Norton
Movie • 1934
Publisher's Staff
Lord Byron of Broadway
Movie • 1930
Nancy
Shadow of the Law
Movie • 1930
Edith Wentworth
Romance Rides the Range
Movie • 1936
Carol Marland
Forgotten Women
Movie • 1931
Patricia Young
The Heart Punch
Movie • 1932
Kitty Doyle
The Red Rider
Movie • 1934
Marie Maxwell
Blazing Guns
Movie • 1935
Betty Lou Rickard
Stone of Silver Creek
Movie • 1935
Martha Mason
Society Fever
Movie • 1935
Victoria Vandergriff
Inside Information
Movie • 1934
Anne Seton
Rule 'Em and Weep
Movie • 1932
Ramona
On Your Back
Movie • 1930
Jeanne Burke
Gigolettes
Movie • 1932
Marion
The County Fair
Movie • 1932
Alice Ainsworth
Young Donovan's Kid
Movie • 1931
Kitty Costello
Easy to Get
Movie • 1931
Marion
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Movie • 1999
Self
The Westerner
Movie • 1934
Juanita Barnes