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Marion Shilling

Marion Shilling

Actor · Born 1910-12-03 · 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.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. The Common Law (1931) — Stephanie Brown
  2. Shadow of the Law (1930) — Edith Wentworth
  3. The Keeper of the Bees (1935) — Louise
  4. Curtain at Eight (1933) — Anice Cresmer
  5. Cavalcade of the West (1936) — Mary Christman
  6. Captured in Chinatown (1935) — Ann Parker
  7. Lord Byron of Broadway (1930) — Nancy
  8. I'll Name the Murderer (1936) — Smitty
  9. A Parisian Romance (1932) — Claudette
  10. The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand (1936) — Verna Gironda
  11. Wise Girls (1929) — Ruth Bence
  12. A Shot in the Dark (1935) — Jean Coates
  13. Sundown Trail (1931) — Dorothy 'Dottie' Beals
  14. Inside Information (1934) — Anne Seton
  15. Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl (1999) — Self
  16. Thunder Over Texas (1934) — Helen Mason
  17. The Idaho Kid (1936) — Ruth Endicott
  18. Gigolettes (1932) — Marion
  19. Easy to Get (1931) — Marion
  20. A Man's Land (1932) — Peggy Turner
  21. Rio Rattler (1935) — Mary Adams
  22. Gun Play (1935) — Madge Holt
  23. Elinor Norton (1934) — Publisher's Staff
  24. The Red Rider (1934) — Marie Maxwell
  25. Society Fever (1935) — Victoria Vandergriff
  26. Swellhead (1930) — Mamie Judd
  27. Niagara Falls (1932)
  28. Take 'em and Shake 'em (1931)
  29. Fighting to Live (1934) — Mary Carson
  30. Shop Angel (1932) — Dorothy Hayes
  31. Beyond Victory (1931) — Ina
  32. Gun Smoke (1935) — Jean Culverson
  33. Romance Rides the Range (1936) — Carol Marland
  34. Forgotten Women (1931) — Patricia Young
  35. The Heart Punch (1932) — Kitty Doyle
  36. Blazing Guns (1935) — Betty Lou Rickard
  37. Stone of Silver Creek (1935) — Martha Mason
  38. Rule 'Em and Weep (1932) — Ramona
  39. On Your Back (1930) — Jeanne Burke
  40. The County Fair (1932) — Alice Ainsworth