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Trudy Marshall is a Actor American born on 14 february 1922 at Brooklyn (USA)

Trudy Marshall

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Birth name Gertrude Madeline Marshall
Nationality USA
Birth 14 february 1922 at Brooklyn (USA)
Death 23 may 2004 (at 82 years) at Century City (USA)

Gertrude Madeline "Trudy" Marshall (February 14, 1920 – May 23, 2004) was an American actress and model.

Biography

Elle naît dans le quartier de Brooklyn à New York en 1920. Au début des années 1940, elle travaille comme mannequin pour l'agence d'Harry Conover et pose notamment comme modèle pour des publicités pour les marques de cigarettes Old Gold, Chesterfield et Lucky Strike.

Signée par la société de production 20th Century Fox en 1942, elle débute au cinéma la même année et obtient plusieurs rôles de figuration. En 1943, elle tient son premier rôle important en partageant l'affiche de la comédie Maîtres de ballet (The Dancing Masters) de Malcolm St. Clair avec le duo comique Laurel et Hardy.

En 1944, elle joue le rôle de la sœur de la famille Sullivan dans le film de guerre J'avais cinq fils (The Sullivans) de Lloyd Bacon qui s'inspire fortement de l'histoire des cinq frères Sullivan qui périrent au combat lorsque le croiseur léger USS Juneau (CL-52) sur lequel ils servaient tous les cinq fut coulé le 13 novembre 1942 lors de la bataille navale de Guadalcanal par des sous-marins japonais. Elle tourne également aux côtés d'Anthony Quinn et de Sheila Ryan dans le film d'espionnage Ladies of Washington de Louis King et tient un petit rôle dans le film noir Roger Touhy, Gangster de Robert Florey consacré à l'histoire du criminel Roger Touhy. Elle se marie la même année avec Phil Raffin, un homme d'affaires. Ensemble, ils auront plusieurs enfants, dont l'actrice Deborah Raffin

En 1945, elle devait jouée avec Fred MacMurray et June Haver dans la comédie Drôle d'histoire (Where Do We Go from Here?) de Gregory Ratoff mais Darryl F. Zanuck lui préfère l'actrice Joan Leslie. Elle joue à la place un court rôle dans le film de guerre Prisonniers de Satan (The Purple Heart) de Lewis Milestone. Elle apparaît ensuite dans deux productions notables de l'époque pour la Fox, la biographie musicale Les Dolly Sisters (The Dolly Sisters) d'Irving Cummings consacré aux deux sœurs du même nom et le drame Voyage sentimental (Sentimental Journey) de Walter Lang issu d'une nouvelle de la romancière Nelia Gardener White.

L'année suivante, elle prend notamment part à des films policiers, comme Alias Mr. Twilight de John Sturges ou Boston Blackie and the Law de D. Ross Lederman qui est consacré aux aventures du détective privé Boston Blackie et dans lequel elle a pour partenaires Chester Morris, Richard Lane et Constance Dowling .

En 1947, elle incarne le personnage de Phillys Hamilton, la secrétaire du détective privé Mike Shayne joué par Hugh Beaumont dans le film policier Too Many Winners de William Beaudine, cinquième et dernier film d'une série produite par la compagnie PRC. Elle tourne notamment ensuite aux côtés de Red Skelton et Janet Blair dans la comédie Bien faire... et la séduire (The Fuller Brush Man) de S. Sylvan Simon.

En 1950, elle côtoie Johnny Weissmuller sur le tournage de l'un nombreux films d'actions consacrés au personnage de Jungle Jim, Jim la Jungle dans l'antre des gorilles (Mark of the Gorilla) de William Berke. L'année suivante, elle obtient un court rôle dans la comédie musicale La Femme de mes rêves (I'll See You in My Dreams) de Michael Curtiz ou elle tombe amoureuse de Frank Lovejoy. Après avoir jouée la petite sœur de Susan Hayward dans le film biographie Le Général invincible (The President's Lady ) d'Henry Levin, elle se retire pour élever sa famille.

Elle revient de manière épisodique au cinéma et à la télévision au cours des années suivantes, jouant notamment dans l'adaptation par Richard Quine d'un roman de John Fante, Pleine de vie (Full of Life), en 1956. En 1975, elle apparaît pour la dernière fois au cinéma dans un rôle de figuration dans le drame romantique Une fois ne suffit pas (Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough) de Guy Green dans lequel joue également sa fille Deborah Raffin.

En 1982, son mari Phil Raffin décède. Elle décède en 2004 dans le quartier de Century City à Los Angeles à l'âge de 84 ans et repose dans le Hillside Memorial Park situé dans la même ville.

Best films

The Fighting Sullivans (1944)
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Filmography of Trudy Marshall (23 films)

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Actress

Once Is Not Enough, 2h1
Directed by Guy Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, David Janssen, George Hamilton, Melina Mercouri, Gary Conway
Roles Myrna
Rating46% 2.3170952.3170952.3170952.3170952.317095
In the film version, Mike Wayne (Kirk Douglas) is a middle-aged motion-picture producer whose career has fallen on hard times. Try as he might, Mike no longer can get a new Hollywood project made.
Full of Life, 1h31
Directed by Richard Quiney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about writers
Actors Judy Holliday, Richard Conte, Esther Minciotti, Eleanor Audley, Joe De Santis, Trudy Marshall
Roles Nora Gregory
Rating63% 3.196773.196773.196773.196773.19677
Writer Nick (Richard Conte) and his wife Emily (Judy Holliday) are expecting their first child. When a necessary home repair proves too costly to afford, Nick must swallow his pride and visit his father, a proud immigrant stonemason with whom he has a difficult relationship, and ask him to do the work. Confronting the issues of religion and family tradition which have separated father and son causes Nick and Emily to reevaluate their lives and the things they value most.
I'll See You in My Dreams, 1h50
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Doris Day, Danny Thomas, Frank Lovejoy, Patrice Wymore, James Gleason, Mary Wickes
Roles Frankie Mason (uncredited)
Rating67% 3.3890153.3890153.3890153.3890153.389015
Gus Kahn (Danny Thomas) is the prolific tunesmith, whose fortunes take an upswing in 1908 when he meets and falls in love with Grace LeBoy (Doris Day). Kahn's career ascends to spectacular heights via such hits as Pretty Baby, My Buddy, Toot Toot Tootsie and "Makin' Whoopee, only to go into eclipse when he loses his savings in the 1929 stock-market crash.
The Fuller Brush Man, 1h33
Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Actors Red Skelton, Janet Blair, Don McGuire, Hillary Brooke, Adele Jergens, Trudy Marshall
Roles Sara Franzen
Rating67% 3.392163.392163.392163.392163.39216
Success doesn't exactly stare the unfortunate street cleaner Red Jones (Red Skelton) in the eye, and when he decides to propose to his sweetheart Ann Elliot (Janet Blair), who is a secretary at the Fuller Brush company, she demands that he makes something more of himself before she can accept the offer. She suggests he should follow the example of a salesman and friend of hers, Keenan Wallick (Don McGuire), who works at her company. Red gets a chance to prove himself worthy sooner than he had expected when he is fired from his job as a cleaner by his boss, Gordon Trist (Nicholas Joy), because he accidentally sets a trash can on fire in the line of duty, and smashes Trist's car window. Ann gets him a chance to show his skills as a door-to-door salesman for the Fuller Brush company, and he is teamed up with her friend Keenan. Both Ann and Red are unaware that Keenan himself had a romantic interest in Ann, and wants to get Red out of the way as soon as possible, so he can pursue Ann without competition. Keenan assigns Red a list of the hardest homes, and Red fails tremendously with his task of selling to an almost impossible potential customer. He has a comical run-in with a troublesome small boy, and a beautiful model at another home tries to seduce him. Seeing how unsuccessful Red's sales attempts are, Keenan comes up with the idea of a bet - the winner gets to pursue Ann without interference of the other man - which he suggests to Red. The bet is that Red won't be able to sell a single brush to the households on their run. Red takes the bet, and the next household on their run is the mansion of his old boss Gordon Trist. After Red tries to hide from Gordon and the groundskeeper, Gordon recognizes Red and sends him packing, but his wife comes after Red and buys ten brushes from him. Red returns to Anna and Keenan with high spirit, until he realizes he forgot to collect the payment money from Mrs Trist. When Red comes back to the Trist home, he overhears a conversation between his former boss, Keenan, Gregory Cruckston (Donald Curtis) and a few other persons, as they discuss their involvement in a racketeering operation. Red is caught eavesdropping and knocked unconscious after he is brought into the house. When he comes back to life, Gordon has been murdered in the dark, and everyone present in the house is arrested by police lieutenant Quint (Arthur Space), all suspected of murder. Red is released since there is no evidence pointing to him being the killer, and when he comes home he discovers Mrs Trist (Hillary Brooke) waiting for him with the money. Soon after, Anna arrives to his home, and shortly after that Freddie Trist (Ross Ford), Gordon's son, with two armed gangsters. The gangsters hold everyone hostage as they search in vain for the murder weapon that killed Gordon. Ann and Red concludes that the weapon must have been a Fuller brush, molded into a knife-looking object. Cruckston stops them from telling policeman Quint about the weapon, and it turns out Cruckston, who is Gordon's partner in crime, is the murderer. Ann and Red escape from him and his gangsters. Cruckston is arrested and Red is the hero of the day, winning Ann's heart in the process.
Key Witness, 1h7
Directed by D. Ross Lederman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors John Beal, Trudy Marshall, Barbara Read, Wilton Graff, Charles Trowbridge, Harry Hayden
Roles Marge Andrews
Rating57% 2.8911352.8911352.8911352.8911352.891135
A man runs away to avoid suspicion of murder and ends up in more trouble.
Too Many Winners, 1h1
Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Noir, Crime
Actors Hugh Beaumont, Trudy Marshall, Ralph Dunn, Claire Carleton, Grandon Rhodes, John Hamilton
Roles Phyllis Hamilton
Rating61% 3.0892053.0892053.0892053.0892053.089205
Le détective privé Michael Shayne (Hugh Beaumont) se retrouve embarqué dans une affaire de faux billets ayant pour cadre l'hippodrome local. Il fait tour à tour la rencontre du propriétaire du journal local, Gil Madden (Ben Welden ), de la riche Mayme Martin (Claire Carleton), du directeur de la piste John Hardeman (Grandon Rhodes), de l'imprimeur Ben Edwards (Byron Foulger) et d'un tas d'autres personnages et ce sous l'œil du détective Pete Rafferty (Ralph Dunn ) et secondé par sa secrétaire Phyllis Hamilton (Trudy Marshall).
Dragonwyck
Dragonwyck (1946)
, 1h43
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Historical, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Children's films
Actors Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price, Anne Revere, Glenn Langan, Spring Byington
Roles Elizabeth Van Borden
Rating68% 3.446383.446383.446383.446383.44638
The setting for the story is a farm in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1844. Farmer's daughter Miranda Wells (Gene Tierney) is brought up by her strait-laced low church parents, Ephraim (Walter Huston) and Abigail (Anne Revere). Miranda, a budding young woman, lives on the farm with her family, but often escapes everyday life on the farm through daydreams of a more romantic location and lifestyle, filled with luxury and flair.
Sentimental Journey, 1h34
Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, William Bendix, Cedric Hardwicke, Mischa Auer, Glenn Langan
Roles Ruth
Rating63% 3.1956453.1956453.1956453.1956453.195645
A Broadway producer Bill (John Payne) and his actress-wife Julie (Maureen O'Hara) are unable to have children, Julie adopts orphaned girl Hitty (Connie Marshall). Shortly afterward, Julie dies of a heart attack, leaving Hitty in the care of the sullen Bill, who can't seem to "connect" with the girl. Eventually Hitty wins Bill's heart, but not without the implicit celestial intervention of the departed Julie.
Boston Blackie and the Law, 1h9
Directed by D. Ross Lederman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Chester Morris, Trudy Marshall, Constance Dowling, Richard Lane, George E. Stone, Frank Sully
Roles Irene
Rating62% 3.1450753.1450753.1450753.1450753.145075
When Boston Blackie performs magic tricks at a Thanksgiving Day party for the inmates of a women's prison, Dinah Moran (Constance Dowling) volunteers to enter a booth. She disappears after he draws the curtain, but as a former magician's assistant, uses the opportunity to escape. Police Inspector Farraday (Richard Lane) takes Blackie into custody as an accomplice, but Blackie easily gets away himself.
Alias Mr. Twilight, 1h9
Directed by John Sturges
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Lloyd Corrigan, Trudy Marshall, Gigi Perreau, Rosalind Ivan, Al Bridge, Jeff York
Roles Corky Corcoran
Rating59% 2.9573252.9573252.9573252.9573252.957325
Five-year-old Susan Holden celebrates her birthday with a group of people, including her loving grandfather Geoffrey Holden, who is also her guardian ever since her parents were killed in a car accident a few years ago. Present at the party is also Susan's nurse, the very pretty Miss Corcoran "Corky", and her police investigator boyfriend, Tim Quaine. Tim is specialized in crimes involving confidence men. Geoffrey, who hasn't met Corky's boyfriend before, is a bit discouraged when he learns about Tim's profession, since he and his partner in crime, Sam Havemayer, travel the country as con men, specializing in swindling jewelry stores.
Circumstantial Evidence, 1h8
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Michael O'Shea, Lloyd Nolan, Trudy Marshall, Ruth Ford, Reed Hadley, Roy Roberts
Roles Agnes Hannon
Rating53% 2.676132.676132.676132.676132.67613
Three witnesses swear they saw Joe Reynolds murder grumpy baker Kenny (Ben Welden) with a hatchet. Joe claims Kenny's fatal head wound was the result of a fall as they argued—the baker hit his head on an oven as he fell—but the eyewitness testimony prevails and Joe is sentenced to death in the electric chair. His buddy Sam Lord has an uphill struggle to prove his innocence.
The Dolly Sisters, 1h54
Directed by Irving Cummings
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Betty Grable, June Haver, John Payne, S.Z. Sakall, Reginald Gardiner, Frank Latimore
Roles Lenora Baldwin
Rating61% 3.097453.097453.097453.097453.09745
In 1904, Uncle Latsie (S. Z. Sakall) comes to New York from Hungary with two little nieces, who immediately take to cafe dancing. In 1912, they're still at it, but to pay Uncle's card debts they decide to go into vaudeville. Singer Harry Fox (John Payne), whom they meet en route, schemes to get them an audition with the great Hammerstein, but their resulting success takes them far out of Harry's league. Lots of songs with a little story.
The Fighting Sullivans, 1h52
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle, Trudy Marshall, John Alvin, Roy Roberts
Roles Genevieve 'Gen' Sullivan
Rating74% 3.74153.74153.74153.74153.7415
The Irish-American, Catholic Sullivan brothers are introduced through a progression of baptisms: George Thomas in 1914, Francis "Frank" Henry in 1916, Joseph Eugene in 1918, Madison "Matt" Abel in 1919, and Albert Leo in 1922 in their hometown of Waterloo, Iowa. There is also sister Genevieve, nicknamed "Gen", making the Sullivans a happy family of eight. As the boys grow, they are doted upon by their mother and sister Genevieve and given stern but loving guidance by their father, who is a railroad freight conductor. Each day, the boys climb the water tower by the tracks and wave to their father as he passes by on the train. The brothers are shown getting into their fair share of trouble growing up: a fight, a near drowning (after which their mother makes them promise not to set foot on a boat again until they are adults), and accidentally flooding the kitchen.
The Purple Heart, 1h39
Directed by Lewis Milestone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Prison films, Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Documentary films about World War II, Children's films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger, Don "Red" Barry, Trudy Marshall, Sam Levene
Roles Mrs. Ross
Rating64% 3.24523.24523.24523.24523.2452
In April 1942, after a raid on Japan, eight American aircrew made up of the crews from two North American B-25 Mitchell bombers, are captured. Capt. Harvey Ross (Dana Andrews), becomes the leader of the captives. Initially, the men are picked up by a local government official who is a Chinese collaborator in a Wang Jingwei controlled section of China. The Chinese official delivers the Americans to the Imperial Japanese Army to be put on trial at the Shanghai Police Headquarters. Although international observers and correspondents are allowed to witness the trial, the commanding officer, General Mitsubi (Richard Loo) refuses to allow Karl Kappel (Torben Meyer), the Swiss Consul to contact Washington.