Marion Shilling
Known For
Acting
Born
1910-12-03 in Denver, Colorado, USA
Died
2004-11-06
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.
Most Known For
Gun Play
as Madge Holt
Swellhead
as Mamie Judd
Shop Angel
as Dorothy Hayes
Wise Girls
as Ruth Bence
Shadow of the Law
as Edith Wentworth
A Shot in the Dark
as Jean Coates
Thunder Over Texas
as Helen Mason
Curtain at Eight
as Anice Cresmer
Cavalcade of the West
as Mary Christman
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
as Verna Gironda
Gun Smoke
as Jean Culverson
The Red Rider
as Marie Maxwell
I'll Name the Murderer
as Smitty
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
as Self
Beyond Victory
as Ina
The Common Law
as Stephanie Brown
Rule 'Em and Weep
as Ramona
The Keeper of the Bees
as Louise
Stone of Silver Creek
as Martha Mason
Elinor Norton
as Publisher's Staff