| Full Name Marion Tanner Role Actress Name Marion Marshall | Years active 1947–75 Occupation actress Grandchildren Riley Wagner-Lewis | |
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| Born June 8, 1929 (age 86) (1929-06-08) Los Angeles, California, U.S. Children Katie Wagner, Joshua Donen, Peter Donen Spouse Robert Wagner (m. 1963–1971), Stanley Donen (m. 1952–1959), Allen M. Davey (m. 1945–1948) Movies I Was a Male War Bride, Sailor Beware, The Stooge, That's My Boy, Gunn Similar People Robert Wagner, Katie Wagner, Jill St John, Natalie Wood, Stanley Donen | ||
Marion Marshall (born Marian Lepriel Tanner; June 8, 1929) is a retired American actress.
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Career
Marshall's first film appearances were in the 20th Century Fox films Gentleman's Agreement and Daisy Kenyon in 1947 (although they were both uncredited). She went on to play roles (many minor) in over 25 more films until 1967.
Marshall had a small but significant role in his I Was a Male War Bride (1949). She was featured prominently in three Martin and Lewis comedy films, The Stooge, Sailor Beware and That's My Boy, with stars Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Among her television appearances, she guest starred twice on Perry Mason in 1959. She played murderer Irene Bedford in "The Case of the Shattered Dream," and title character Ginny Hobart in "The Case of the Spurious Sister".
Personal life
She married three times, her first husband being the cameraman Allen Davey. Her second husband (from 1952 until 1959) was director Stanley Donen, with whom she had two sons, Peter (born December 20, 1953) and Joshua (born August 10, 1955).
In 1963, she married actor Robert Wagner, with whom she had one child, television presenter Katie Wagner, before they divorced in 1970.