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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Dragonwyck
as Elizabeth Van Borden
1946
Circumstantial Evidence
as Agnes Hannon
1945
I'll See You in My Dreams
as Frankie Mason (uncredited)
1951
The Purple Heart
as Mrs. Ross
1944
The Fighting Sullivans
as Genevieve 'Gen' Sullivan
1944
Disaster
as Jerry Hansford
1948
Key Witness
as Marge Andrews
1947
Boston Blackie and the Law
as Irene
1946
The Dancing Masters
as Trudy Harlan
1943
Ladies of Washington
as Carol Northrup
1944
Roger Touhy, Gangster
as Gloria
1944
Springtime in the Rockies
as Marilyn Crothers (uncredited)
1942
Mark of the Gorilla
as Barbara Bentley
1950
Sentimental Journey
as Ruth
1946
Alias Mr. Twilight
as Corky Corcoran
1946
Shamrock Hill
as Carol Judson
1949
Once Is Not Enough
as Myrna
1975
Talk About a Lady
as Toni Marlowe
1946
Too Many Winners
as Phyllis Hamilton
1947
Married Too Young
as Susan Newton
1962
