Marion Shilling
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1910-12-03
Day of Death
2004-11-06 (93 years old)
Place of Birth
Denver, Colorado, USA
Marion Shilling
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
Acting
(1999)
(1936)
Cavalcade of the West
as Mary Christman
(1936)
The Idaho Kid
as Ruth Endicott
(1936)
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
as Verna Gironda
(1936)
Romance Rides the Range
as Carol Marland
(1936)
I'll Name the Murderer
as Smitty
(1935)
Rio Rattler
as Mary Adams
(1935)
The Keeper of the Bees
as Louise
(1935)
A Shot in the Dark
as Jean Coates
(1935)
Gun Play
as Madge Holt
(1935)
Captured in Chinatown
as Ann Parker
(1935)
Blazing Guns
as Betty Lou Rickard
(1935)
Stone of Silver Creek
as Martha Mason
(1935)
Society Fever
as Victoria Vandergriff
(1935)
Gun Smoke
as Jean Culverson
(1934)
Inside Information
as Anne Seton
(1934)
The Red Rider
as Marie Maxwell
(1934)
Elinor Norton
as Publisher's Staff
(1934)
Fighting to Live
as Mary Carson
(1934)
Thunder Over Texas
as Helen Mason
(1934)
The Westerner
as Juanita Barnes
(1933)
Curtain at Eight
as Anice Cresmer
(1932)
A Parisian Romance
as Claudette
(1932)
A Man's Land
as Peggy Turner
(1932)
The Heart Punch
as Kitty Doyle
(1932)
Gigolettes
as Marion
(1932)
The County Fair
as Alice Ainsworth
(1932)
(1932)
Shop Angel
as Dorothy Hayes
(1932)
Rule 'Em and Weep
as Ramona
(1931)
The Common Law
as Stephanie Brown
(1931)
Easy to Get
as Marion
(1931)
Sundown Trail
as Dorothy 'Dottie' Beals
(1931)
Young Donovan's Kid
as Kitty Costello
(1931)
Beyond Victory
as Ina
(1931)
Forgotten Women
as Patricia Young
(1931)
(1930)
Shadow of the Law
as Edith Wentworth
(1930)
Lord Byron of Broadway
as Nancy
(1930)
Swellhead
as Mamie Judd
(1930)
On Your Back
as Jeanne Burke
(1929)
Wise Girls
as Ruth Bence