| Trudy Marshall | |
|---|---|
| Born | Gertrude Marshall February 14, 1920 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Died | May 23, 2004 (aged 84) Century City, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1942–1979 |
| Spouse | Phillip J. Raffin (1944–1981) (his death) |
Trudy Marshall (February 14, 1920[1] – May 23, 2004) was an American actress.
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. She played a featured role was in the World War II war drama The Fighting Sullivans (1944), the true story of a family that lost all five enlisted sons in the sinking of the USS Juneau off Guadalcanal in November 1942. Marshall played a surviving sister Genevieve 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. She played a featured role in The Fuller Brush Man (1948).
Semi-retired by the 1960s, she returned very infrequently to Hollywood. She appeared in the movie Once Is Not Enough (1975) which launched the film career of her daughter Deborah Raffin.
Marshall was the hostess of her own radio and TV show in the 1980s in which she interviewed stars who attended special Hollywood events.