Trudy Marshall
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 (32 Appearances)
Willa
Starsky & Hutch
Once Is Not Enough
Married Too Young
The Donna Reed Show
1104 Sutton Road
I'll See You in My Dreams
Mark of the Gorilla
Barbary Pirate
Shamrock Hill
Disaster
The Fuller Brush Man
Beyond Our Own
Key Witness
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
Too Many Winners
Alias Mr. Twilight
Boston Blackie and the Law
Dragonwyck
Talk About a Lady
Sentimental Journey
The Dolly Sisters
Circumstantial Evidence
Roger Touhy, Gangster
Ladies of Washington
The Purple Heart
The Fighting Sullivans
The Dancing Masters
Heaven Can Wait
Coney Island
Crash Dive
Springtime in the Rockies
