Marion Shilling
Actor
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.
Filmography
Shadow of the Law
as Edith Wentworth 1930
The Keeper of the Bees
as Louise 1935
Curtain at Eight
as Anice Cresmer 1933
Cavalcade of the West
as Mary Christman 1936
Captured in Chinatown
as Ann Parker 1935
I'll Name the Murderer
as Smitty 1936
A Parisian Romance
as Claudette 1932
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
as Verna Gironda 1936
Wise Girls
as Ruth Bence 1929
Lord Byron of Broadway
as Nancy 1930
A Shot in the Dark
as Jean Coates 1935
Sundown Trail
as Dorothy 'Dottie' Beals 1931
Inside Information
as Anne Seton 1934
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
as Self 1999
The Idaho Kid
as Ruth Endicott 1936
Gigolettes
as Marion 1932