Marion Shilling
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Marion Shilling received a Golden Boot award at the 2002 awards ceremony. She passed away on November 6, 2004 at the Torrance, California Memorial Medical Centre. Shilling was born as Marion Schilling in Denver, Colorado in 1910 as per the Social Security Death Index under the name COOK, MARION S., although some biographers had formerly cited 1911 or 1914. She started her acting career as a stage actress, starring in stage plays such as Miss Lulu Betts and Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. In 1929 she received her first screen role in Wise Girls. After a couple of roles in other films, she starred opposite William Powell in the 1930 crime drama Shadow of the Law. That movie springboarded her into roles as a B-movie heroine. In 1931 she was one of thirteen girls selected as "WAMPAS Baby Stars", a list that included future Hollywood star Marian Marsh. From 1930 to 1936 she starred in forty two films, mostly westerns or mysteries. She often starred opposite Tom Keene and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams. In the 1934 film serial The Red Rider, she starred opposite early western film legend Buck Jones, with a supporting cast that included William Desmond and football legend Jim Thorpe.
Known for
Credits
Wise Girls (1929)
as Ruth Bence
Lord Byron of Broadway (1930)
as Nancy
Cavalcade of the West (1936)
as Mary Christman
Fighting to Live (1934)
as Mary Carson
Shop Angel (1932)
as Dorothy Hayes
Swellhead (1930)
as Mamie Judd
Gun Play (1935)
as Madge Holt
I'll Name the Murderer (1936)
as Smitty
A Parisian Romance (1932)
as Claudette
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl (1999)
as Self
The Red Rider (1934)
as Marie Maxwell
Curtain at Eight (1933)
as Anice Cresmer
The Common Law (1931)
as Stephanie Brown
Elinor Norton (1934)
as Publisher's Staff
Beyond Victory (1931)
as Ina
A Shot in the Dark (1935)
as Jean Coates
Young Donovan's Kid (1931)
as Kitty Costello
Captured in Chinatown (1935)
as Ann Parker
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand (1936)
as Verna Gironda
Inside Information (1934)
as Anne Seton
The Keeper of the Bees (1935)
as Louise
Rule 'Em and Weep (1932)
as Ramona
Shadow of the Law (1930)
as Edith Wentworth
Sundown Trail (1931)
as Dorothy 'Dottie' Beals
Romance Rides the Range (1936)
as Carol Marland
A Man's Land (1932)
as Peggy Turner
Forgotten Women (1931)
as Patricia Young
On Your Back (1930)
as Jeanne Burke
Thunder Over Texas (1934)
as Helen Mason
The Westerner (1934)
as Juanita Barnes
Society Fever (1935)
as Victoria Vandergriff
Gun Smoke (1935)
as Jean Culverson
The Heart Punch (1932)
as Kitty Doyle
Gigolettes (1932)
as Marion
The Idaho Kid (1936)
as Ruth Endicott
Blazing Guns (1935)
as Betty Lou Rickard
Stone of Silver Creek (1935)
as Martha Mason
Take 'em and Shake 'em (1931)
Actor
Easy to Get (1931)
as Marion
Niagara Falls (1932)
Actor
The County Fair (1932)
as Alice Ainsworth
Rio Rattler (1935)
as Mary Adams