Trudy Marshall
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Trudy Marshall was an American actress.
Marshall was born Gertrude Marshall in Brooklyn, New York. A popular magazine cigarette girl during her modeling days for Harry Conover, she 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 was in the World War II war drama The Fighting Sullivans
(1944), 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 a surviving sister Genevieve who joins the Navy after her brothers' death. Taking roles as a decorative ingenue for a time, Marshall later played the "other woman" in a few features. She played a featured role in The Fuller Brush Man
(1948).
Semi-retired by the 1960s, she returned very infrequently to Hollywood. She appeared in the movie Once Is Not Enough
(1975) which launched the film career of 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 events.
Marshall was born Gertrude Marshall in Brooklyn, New York. A popular magazine cigarette girl during her modeling days for Harry Conover, she 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 was in the World War II war drama The Fighting Sullivans
The Fighting Sullivans
The Fighting Sullivans, originally released as The Sullivans, is a 1944 American biographical war film directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Edward Doherty, Mary C. McCall Jr. and Jules Schermer...
(1944), the true story of a family that lost all five enlisted sons in the sinking of the USS Juneau
USS Juneau (CL-52)
The first USS Juneau was a United States Navy Atlanta-class light cruiser sunk at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in November 1942. In total 687 men, including the five Sullivan brothers, were killed in action as a result of its sinking....
off Guadalcanal
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, sometimes referred to as the Third and Fourth Battles of Savo Island, the Battle of the Solomons, The Battle of Friday the 13th, or, in Japanese sources, as the , took place from 12–15 November 1942, and was the decisive engagement in a series of naval battles...
in November 1942. Marshall played a surviving sister Genevieve who joins the Navy after her brothers' death. Taking roles as a decorative ingenue for a time, Marshall later played the "other woman" in a few features. She played a featured role in The Fuller Brush Man
The Fuller Brush Man
The Fuller Brush Man is a 1948 comedy film starring Red Skelton as a door-to-door salesman for the Fuller Brush Company who becomes a murder suspect.-Cast:*Red Skelton as Red Jones*Janet Blair as Ann Elliott*Don McGuire as Keenan Wallick...
(1948).
Semi-retired by the 1960s, she returned very infrequently to Hollywood. She appeared in the movie Once Is Not Enough
Once Is Not Enough
Once Is Not Enough is a 1973 novel by Jacqueline Susann. It was the #2 best-selling novel of 1973 in the United States. It was made into a 1975 film Once Is Not Enough, Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough, directed by Guy Green and starring Kirk Douglas, Deborah Raffin, David Janssen and Brenda...
(1975) which launched the film career of her daughter Deborah Raffin
Deborah Raffin
Deborah Iona Raffin is an American film and television actress.Raffin was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Trudy Marshall, a Brooklyn-born former movie actress, and Phillip Jordan Raffin, a restaurateur and meat/brokerage executive.She appeared in several 1970s Hollywood films...
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Marshall was the hostess of her own radio and TV show in the 1980s in which she interviewed stars who attended special Hollywood events.