Trudy Marshall
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| Trudy Marshall | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 14, 1920 Brooklyn, New York |
| Died | May 23, 2004 Century City, Los Angeles, California |
Trudy Marshall (February 14, 1920[1] - May 23, 2004) was an American actress who was in such films as The Sullivans (1944), and The Fuller Brush Man (1948). She was the mother of actress Deborah Raffin.
Marshall was born Gertrude Marshall[1] in Brooklyn, New York. 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".
Marshall was signed by 20th Century-Fox in 1942 and groomed in bit parts. Her best known featured role was in the WWII war drama The Sullivans, the true story of a family who lost all five enlisted sons in the sinking of the USS Juneau off Guadalcanal in November of 1942. Trudy effectively played a surviving sister who joins the Navy after her brothers' death. Taking roles as a decorative ingenue for a time, Marshall later played the "other woman" in a few features. Her career did not survive, but her marriage did.
Semi-retired by the 1960s, she returned very infrequently to Hollywood. One of those times was in a brief role in the movie Once Is Not Enough (1975) which began the film career of her daughter actress Deborah Raffin, who, like her mother, started off as a model. Marshall was the hostess of her own radio and TV show in the 1980s in which she interviewed stars who attended special Hollywood events.
