Trudy Marshall
Known for ActingBorn 1922-02-14 — died 2004-05-23Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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".
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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.
Known for
Once Is Not Enough
1975 · as Myrna
Dragonwyck
1946 · as Elizabeth Van Borden
Heaven Can Wait
1943 · as Jane Van Cleve - Jack's Wife (uncredited)
Crash Dive
1943 · as Telephone Operator
The Purple Heart
1944 · as Mrs. Ross
Roger Touhy, Gangster
1944 · as Gloria
Coney Island
1943 · as Girl Friend
The Fuller Brush Man
1948 · as Sara Franzen
The Fighting Sullivans
1944 · as Genevieve 'Gen' Sullivan
Too Many Winners
1947 · as Phyllis Hamilton
The Dancing Masters
1943 · as Trudy Harlan
I'll See You in My Dreams
1951 · as Frankie Mason (uncredited)
Talk About a Lady
1946 · as Toni Marlowe
Sentimental Journey
1946 · as Ruth
Married Too Young
1962 · as Susan Newton
Barbary Pirate
1949 · as Anne Ridgeway
Circumstantial Evidence
1945 · as Agnes Hannon
Boston Blackie and the Law
1946 · as Irene