Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1922-02-14
Day of Death
2004-05-23
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Trudy Marshall
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 (30)
Willa
1979
Once Is Not Enough
1975
Married Too Young
1962
1104 Sutton Road
1958
I'll See You in My Dreams
1951
Mark of the Gorilla
1950
Barbary Pirate
1949
Shamrock Hill
1949
Disaster
1948
The Fuller Brush Man
1948
Beyond Our Own
1947
Key Witness
1947
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
1947
Too Many Winners
1947
