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.

Known For

Willa 1979 ★ 5.0
Starsky & Hutch 1975 ★ 7.3
Once Is Not Enough 1975 ★ 5.2
Married Too Young 1962 ★ 5.4
The Donna Reed Show 1958 ★ 6.5
1104 Sutton Road 1958
I'll See You in My Dreams 1951 ★ 4.9
The Fuller Brush Man 1948 ★ 6.3
Too Many Winners 1947 ★ 6.0
Key Witness 1947 ★ 4.8
Joe Palooka in the Knockout 1947 ★ 8.0
Dragonwyck 1946 ★ 6.6
Sentimental Journey 1946 ★ 6.4
Talk About a Lady 1946 ★ 5.0
Circumstantial Evidence 1945 ★ 5.2
The Dolly Sisters 1945 ★ 5.7
Roger Touhy, Gangster 1944 ★ 7.0
The Purple Heart 1944 ★ 6.1
The Fighting Sullivans 1944 ★ 6.3
Heaven Can Wait 1943 ★ 6.9
Crash Dive 1943 ★ 6.4
Coney Island 1943 ★ 6.3
The Dancing Masters 1943 ★ 6.2
Springtime in the Rockies 1942 ★ 6.9