Trudy Marshall
Acting • Born 1922-02-14 – Died 2004-05-23
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
32 credits
Dragonwyck
Movie • 1946
Elizabeth Van Borden
Circumstantial Evidence
Movie • 1945
Agnes Hannon
I'll See You in My Dreams
Movie • 1951
Frankie Mason (uncredited)
The Purple Heart
Movie • 1944
Mrs. Ross
The Fighting Sullivans
Movie • 1944
Genevieve 'Gen' Sullivan
Disaster
Movie • 1948
Jerry Hansford
Key Witness
Movie • 1947
Marge Andrews
Boston Blackie and the Law
Movie • 1946
Irene
The Dancing Masters
Movie • 1943
Trudy Harlan
Ladies of Washington
Movie • 1944
Carol Northrup
Roger Touhy, Gangster
Movie • 1944
Gloria
Springtime in the Rockies
Movie • 1942
Marilyn Crothers (uncredited)
Mark of the Gorilla
Movie • 1950
Barbara Bentley
Sentimental Journey
Movie • 1946
Ruth
Alias Mr. Twilight
Movie • 1946
Corky Corcoran
Shamrock Hill
Movie • 1949
Carol Judson
Once Is Not Enough
Movie • 1975
Myrna
Talk About a Lady
Movie • 1946
Toni Marlowe
Too Many Winners
Movie • 1947
Phyllis Hamilton
Married Too Young
Movie • 1962
Susan Newton
Willa
Movie • 1979
Lady Trucker
The Fuller Brush Man
Movie • 1948
Sara Franzen
1104 Sutton Road
Movie • 1958
The Dolly Sisters
Movie • 1945
Lenora Baldwin
Coney Island
Movie • 1943
Girl Friend
Heaven Can Wait
Movie • 1943
Jane Van Cleve - Jack's Wife (uncredited)
Crash Dive
Movie • 1943
Telephone Operator
Barbary Pirate
Movie • 1949
Anne Ridgeway
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
Movie • 1947
Nina
Beyond Our Own
Movie • 1947
Ann Rogers
Starsky & Hutch
TV • 1975
The Donna Reed Show
TV • 1958