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