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