- Trudy Marshall
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name = Trudy Marshall
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birthdate =February 14 ,1920
birthplace =Brooklyn, New York
deathdate =May 23 ,2004
deathplace =Century City, Los Angeles, California Trudy Marshall (
February 14 ,1920 -May 23 ,2004 ) was an American actress who was in such films as "The Sullivans " (1944), and "The Fuller Brush Man " (1948). She was the mother of actressDeborah Raffin .Marshall was born Gertrude Marshall [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/trudy-marshall-730567.html Trudy Marshall - Obituaries, News - Independent.co.uk ] ] in
Brooklyn, New York . A popular magazine cigarette girl during her modeling days forHarry Conover , she was at different times "The Old Gold Girl," "The Chesterfield Girl", and "The Lucky Strike Girl".Marshall was signed by
20th Century-Fox in 1942 and groomed in bit parts. Her best known featured role was in the World War II war drama "The Sullivans", the true story of a family that lost all five enlisted sons in the sinking of the USS "Juneau" off Guadalcanal in November 1942. Marshall played a surviving sister who joins the Navy after her brothers' death. Taking roles as a decorative ingenue for a time, Marshall later played the "other woman" in a few features.Semi-retired by the 1960s, she returned very infrequently to Hollywood. One of those times was in a brief role in the movie "Once Is Not Enough" (1975) which launched the film career of her daughter Deborah, who, like her mother, started off as a model. Marshall was the hostess of her own radio and TV show in the 1980s in which she interviewed stars who attended special Hollywood events.
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