Person Details
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Aliases: Gertrude Madeline Marshall , Gertrude Madeline "Trudy" Marshall
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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Movie Involvements: 22
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Dragonwyck
(1946) Elizabeth Van BordenThe Purple Heart
(1944) Mrs. RossJacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough
(1975) MyrnaWilla
(1979) Lady TruckerCrash Dive
(1943) Telephone OperatorThe Fighting Sullivans
(1944) Genevieve 'Gen' SullivanCircumstantial Evidence
(1945) Agnes HannonThe Dolly Sisters
(1945) Lenora BaldwinActing
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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1979 | Lady Trucker | |
1975 | N/A | |
Myrna | ||
1962 | Susan Newton | |
1958 | N/A | |
1951 | Frankie Mason (uncredited) | |
1950 | Barbara Bentley | |
1949 | Anne Ridgeway | |
Carol Judson | ||
1948 | Jerry Hansford | |
Sara Franzen | ||
1947 | Ann Rogers | |
Marge Andrews | ||
Nina | ||
Phyllis Hamilton | ||
1946 | Corky Corcoran | |
Irene | ||
Elizabeth Van Borden | ||
Toni Marlowe | ||
Ruth | ||
1945 | Lenora Baldwin | |
Agnes Hannon | ||
1944 | Gloria | |
Carol Northrup | ||
Mrs. Ross | ||
Genevieve 'Gen' Sullivan | ||
1943 | Trudy Harlan | |
Jane Van Cleve - Jack's Wife (uncredited) | ||
Girl Friend | ||
Telephone Operator | ||
1942 | Marilyn Crothers (uncredited) | |
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |