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Marion Shilling
Actor
Born December 3, 1910Died November 6, 2004 (93 years)
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.
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.
Filmography
| 1936 | Cavalcade of the West · as Mary Christman |
| 1936 | Romance Rides the Range · as Carol Marland |
| 1936 | Idaho Kid · as Ruth Endicott |
| 1936 | The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand · as Verna Gironda |
| 1936 | I'll Name the Murderer · as Smitty |
| 1935 | Gun Play · as Madge Holt |
| 1935 | Rio Rattler · as Mary Adams |
| 1935 | The Keeper of the Bees · as Louise |
| 1935 | Captured in Chinatown · as Ann Parker |
| 1935 | Gun Smoke · as Jean Culverson |
| 1935 | Blazing Guns · as Betty Lou Rickard |
| 1935 | A Shot in the Dark · as Jean Coates |
| 1934 | The Westerner · as Juanita Barnes |
| 1934 | Thunder Over Texas · as Helen Mason |
| 1934 | Inside Information · as Anne Seton |
| 1934 | The Red Rider · as Marie Maxwell |
| 1934 | Fighting to Live · as Mary Carson |
| 1933 | Curtain at Eight · as Anice Cresmer |
| 1932 | A Parisian Romance · as Claudette |
| 1932 | A Man's Land · as Peggy Turner |
| 1932 | Rule 'Em and Weep · as Ramona |
| 1932 | Only Men Wanted · as Cast |
| 1931 | Forgotten Women · as Patricia Young |
| 1931 | Sundown Trail · as Dorothy 'dottie' Beals |
| 1931 | The Common Law · as Stephanie Brown |
| 1931 | Beyond Victory · as Ina |
| 1930 | Shadow of the Law · as Edith Wentworth |
| 1930 | Lord Byron of Broadway · as Nancy |
| 1929 | Wise Girls · as Ruth Bence |