Marion Shilling

Marion Shilling

1910-12-03 – 2004-11-06 (age 93) Denver, Colorado, USA
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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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Known For

The Common Law
The Common Law

1931

as Stephanie Brown

The Red Rider
The Red Rider

1934

as Marie Maxwell

Elinor Norton
Elinor Norton

1934

as Publisher's Staff

Shadow of the Law
Shadow of the Law

1930

as Edith Wentworth

Curtain at Eight
Curtain at Eight

1933

as Anice Cresmer

Beyond Victory
Beyond Victory

1931

as Ina

The Keeper of the Bees
Gun Play
Gun Play

1935

as Madge Holt

Sundown Trail
Sundown Trail

1931

as Dorothy 'Dottie' Beals

Lord Byron of Broadway
Fighting to Live
Fighting to Live

1934

as Mary Carson

Niagara Falls
Romance Rides the Range
Romance Rides the Range

1936

as Carol Marland

The County Fair
The County Fair

1932

as Alice Ainsworth

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A Parisian Romance

1932

as Claudette

Young Donovan's Kid
Young Donovan's Kid

1931

as Kitty Costello

Cavalcade of the West
Cavalcade of the West

1936

as Mary Christman

Wise Girls
Wise Girls

1929

as Ruth Bence

Captured in Chinatown
Captured in Chinatown

1935

as Ann Parker