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