Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1910-12-03
Day of Death
2004-11-06
Place of Birth
Denver, Colorado, USA
Marion Shilling
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.
Filmography (42)
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999
Cavalcade of the West
1936
Romance Rides the Range
1936
The Idaho Kid
1936
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
1936
I'll Name the Murderer
1936
Gun Play
1935
Rio Rattler
1935
Society Fever
1935
The Keeper of the Bees
1935
Captured in Chinatown
1935
Gun Smoke
1935
Stone of Silver Creek
1935
Blazing Guns
1935
