Occupation Actress Years active 1942–1979 | Name Trudy Marshall Role Actress | |
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Full Name Gertrude Madeline Marshall Born February 14, 1920 ( 1920-02-14 ) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Died May 23, 2004, Century City, California, United States Spouse Phillip Raffin (m. 1944–1981), Leland Lindsay (m. 1940–1944) Children Deborah Raffin, William Raffin Parents Madeline Marshall, Frederick Marshall Movies The Fighting Sullivans, The Dancing Masters, Mark of the Gorilla, The Dolly Sisters, The Purple Heart Similar People Deborah Raffin, Michael Viner, Malcolm St Clair, Lloyd Bacon, Irving Cummings | ||
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Gertrude Madeline "Trudy" Marshall (February 14, 1920 – May 23, 2004) was an American actress and model.
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Life and career
Marshall was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Madeline (née Breedan) and Frederick Marshall. 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".
She 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 (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 the surviving sister Genevieve who joins the Navy after her brothers perish.
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 (1975). Marshall was the hostess of her own radio and TV show in the 1980s in which she interviewed stars who attended special Hollywood events.
