Trudy Marshall
Known for Acting
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
1946
as Elizabeth Van Borden
Heaven Can Wait
1943
as Jane Van Cleve - Jack's Wife (uncredited)
Roger Touhy, Gangster
1944
as Gloria
Too Many Winners
1947
as Phyllis Hamilton
The Fuller Brush Man
1948
as Sara Franzen
Once Is Not Enough
1975
as Myrna
Crash Dive
1943
as Telephone Operator
I'll See You in My Dreams
1951
as Frankie Mason (uncredited)
Willa
1979
as Lady Trucker
Married Too Young
1962
as Susan Newton
The Purple Heart
1944
as Mrs. Ross
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
1947
as Nina
Circumstantial Evidence
1945
as Agnes Hannon
Boston Blackie and the Law
1946
as Irene
Springtime in the Rockies
1942
as Marilyn Crothers (uncredited)
The Fighting Sullivans
1944
as Genevieve 'Gen' Sullivan
Mark of the Gorilla
1950
as Barbara Bentley
Barbary Pirate
1949
as Anne Ridgeway
Coney Island
1943
as Girl Friend
Key Witness
1947
as Marge Andrews