Acting

32

Woman

14 Feb 1922

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Trudy Marshall

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.

Heaven Can Wait

5 August 1943

Starsky & Hutch

10 September 1975

Dragonwyck

19 April 1946

The Dancing Masters

19 November 1943

Crash Dive

22 April 1943

The Fighting Sullivans

3 February 1944

Once Is Not Enough

20 June 1975

The Donna Reed Show

24 September 1958

I'll See You in My Dreams

6 December 1951

The Purple Heart

25 February 1944