Trudy Marshall

Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Born
February 14, 1922 (82 years old)
Died
May 23, 2004
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Popular Genres
Drama Romance Comedy
Career Span
1942 – 1979

Trudy Marshall

1 win
10 nominations
1 Oscar
30 credits

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.

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Personal Info

Born
Feb 14, 1922
From
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Acting
Career
1942 – 1979

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Featured in Trailers

Heaven Can Wait
Dragonwyck
The Fighting Sullivans
Once Is Not Enough
Coney Island
The Dancing Masters
Crash Dive

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