Marion Shilling
Biography
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.
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Movies (42)
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
as Self
1999
Cavalcade of the West
as Mary Christman
1936
Romance Rides the Range
as Carol Marland
1936
The Idaho Kid
as Ruth Endicott
1936
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
as Verna Gironda
1936
I'll Name the Murderer
as Smitty
1936
Gun Play
as Madge Holt
1935
Rio Rattler
as Mary Adams
1935
Society Fever
as Victoria Vandergriff
1935
The Keeper of the Bees
as Louise
1935
Captured in Chinatown
as Ann Parker
1935
Gun Smoke
as Jean Culverson
1935
Stone of Silver Creek
as Martha Mason
1935
Blazing Guns
as Betty Lou Rickard
1935
A Shot in the Dark
as Jean Coates
1935
The Westerner
as Juanita Barnes
1934
Elinor Norton
as Publisher's Staff
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
1934
Curtain at Eight
as Anice Cresmer
1933
The Heart Punch
as Kitty Doyle
1932
A Parisian Romance
as Claudette
1932
Niagara Falls
1932
A Man's Land
as Peggy Turner
1932
Gigolettes
as Marion
1932
Rule 'Em and Weep
as Ramona
1932
The County Fair
as Alice Ainsworth
1932
Shop Angel
as Dorothy Hayes
1932
Easy to Get
as Marion
1931
Forgotten Women
as Patricia Young
1931
Take 'em and Shake 'em
1931
Sundown Trail
as Dorothy 'Dottie' Beals
1931
The Common Law
as Stephanie Brown
1931
Young Donovan's Kid
as Kitty Costello
1931
Beyond Victory
as Ina
1931
On Your Back
as Jeanne Burke
1930
Shadow of the Law
as Edith Wentworth
1930
Swellhead
as Mamie Judd
1930
Lord Byron of Broadway
as Nancy
1930
Wise Girls
as Ruth Bence
1929