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Trudy Marshall

Trudy Marshall

Birthday: 1922-02-14 | Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1962
Married Too Young

as    Susan Newton

1948
The Fuller Brush Man

as    Sara Franzen

1947
Key Witness

as    Marge Andrews

1947
Too Many Winners

as    Phyllis Hamilton

1946
Alias Mr. Twilight

as    Corky Corcoran

1945
Circumstantial Evidence

as    Agnes Hannon

1945
The Dolly Sisters

as    Lenora Baldwin

1944
The Fighting Sullivans

as    Genevieve 'Gen' Sullivan

1944
The Purple Heart

as    Mrs. Ross

1943
The Dancing Masters

as    Trudy Harlan