Marion Shilling
Known for Acting · 42 credits
- Born
- 1910-12-03
- Died
- 2004-11-06
- Place of birth
- Denver, Colorado, USA
- Also known as
- Marion Helen Schilling
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.
Known For
Movies (42)
Wise Girls
1929
as Ruth Bence
Lord Byron of Broadway
1930
as Nancy
Cavalcade of the West
1936
as Mary Christman
Fighting to Live
1934
as Mary Carson
Shop Angel
1932
as Dorothy Hayes
Swellhead
1930
as Mamie Judd
Gun Play
1935
as Madge Holt
I'll Name the Murderer
1936
as Smitty
A Parisian Romance
1932
as Claudette
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999
as Self
The Red Rider
1934
as Marie Maxwell
Curtain at Eight
1933
as Anice Cresmer
The Common Law
1931
as Stephanie Brown
Elinor Norton
1934
as Publisher's Staff
Beyond Victory
1931
as Ina
A Shot in the Dark
1935
as Jean Coates
Young Donovan's Kid
1931
as Kitty Costello
Captured in Chinatown
1935
as Ann Parker
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
1936
as Verna Gironda
Inside Information
1934
as Anne Seton
The Keeper of the Bees
1935
as Louise
Rule 'Em and Weep
1932
as Ramona
Shadow of the Law
1930
as Edith Wentworth
Sundown Trail
1931
as Dorothy 'Dottie' Beals
Romance Rides the Range
1936
as Carol Marland
A Man's Land
1932
as Peggy Turner
Forgotten Women
1931
as Patricia Young
On Your Back
1930
as Jeanne Burke
Thunder Over Texas
1934
as Helen Mason
The Westerner
1934
as Juanita Barnes
Society Fever
1935
as Victoria Vandergriff
Gun Smoke
1935
as Jean Culverson
The Heart Punch
1932
as Kitty Doyle
Gigolettes
1932
as Marion
The Idaho Kid
1936
as Ruth Endicott
Blazing Guns
1935
as Betty Lou Rickard
Stone of Silver Creek
1935
as Martha Mason
Take 'em and Shake 'em
1931
Easy to Get
1931
as Marion
Niagara Falls
1932
The County Fair
1932
as Alice Ainsworth
Rio Rattler
1935
as Mary Adams
About Marion Shilling
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 Girl… With 42 credits spanning from 1929 to 1999, Marion Shilling has appeared in 42 films and 0 TV shows.
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Most Popular Marion Shilling Movies
- Wise Girls (1929) — as Ruth Bence
- Lord Byron of Broadway (1930) — as Nancy
- Cavalcade of the West (1936) — as Mary Christman
- Fighting to Live (1934) — as Mary Carson
- Shop Angel (1932) — as Dorothy Hayes
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