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Aliases: Marion Helen Schilling

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Denver, Colorado, USA

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Movie Involvements: 30

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

The Common Law
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6

The Common Law

(1931) Stephanie Brown
Shadow of the Law
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7

Shadow of the Law

(1930) Edith Wentworth
Forgotten Women
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0

Forgotten Women

(1931) Patricia Young
A Shot in the Dark
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5

A Shot in the Dark

(1935) Jean Coates
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
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5
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
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8
Curtain at Eight
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6

Curtain at Eight

(1933) Anice Cresmer
Captured in Chinatown
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4

Captured in Chinatown

(1935) Ann Parker

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1999 Self
1936 Mary Christman
Carol Marland
Ruth Endicott
Verna Gironda
Smitty
1935 Madge Holt
Mary Adams
Victoria Vandergriff
Louise
Ann Parker
Jean Culverson
Martha Mason
Betty Lou Rickard
Jean Coates
1934 Publisher's Staff
Helen Mason
Anne Seton
Marie Maxwell
Mary Carson
1933 Anice Cresmer
1932 Kitty Doyle
Claudette
N/A
Peggy Turner
Marion
Alice Ainsworth
1931 Marion
Patricia Young
N/A
Dorothy 'Dottie' Beals
Stephanie Brown
Kitty Costello
Ina
1930 Jeanne Burke
Edith Wentworth
Mamie Judd
Nancy
1929 Ruth Bence
Year Character Movie/Tv

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