Acting
Marion Shilling
EN cinema · 42 credits
Born
3 December 1910
Died
6 November 2004 (aged 93)
Birthplace
Denver, Colorado, USA
Also known as Marion Helen Schilling
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
Filmography
Cavalcade of the West
as Mary Christman
I'll Name the Murderer
as Smitty
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
as Verna Gironda
The Idaho Kid
as Ruth Endicott
Romance Rides the Range
as Carol Marland
Rio Rattler
as Mary Adams
A Shot in the Dark
as Jean Coates
The Keeper of the Bees
as Louise
Captured in Chinatown
as Ann Parker
Gun Play
as Madge Holt
Gun Smoke
as Jean Culverson
Blazing Guns
as Betty Lou Rickard
Stone of Silver Creek
as Martha Mason
Society Fever
as Victoria Vandergriff
Thunder Over Texas
as Helen Mason
Fighting to Live
as Mary Carson
Elinor Norton
as Publisher's Staff
The Red Rider
as Marie Maxwell
Inside Information
as Anne Seton
The Westerner
as Juanita Barnes
Curtain at Eight
as Anice Cresmer
A Man's Land
as Peggy Turner
Shop Angel
as Dorothy Hayes
Heart Punch
1932
Heart Punch
as Kitty Doyle
Rule 'Em and Weep
as Ramona
Gigolettes
1932
Gigolettes
as Marion
The County Fair
as Alice Ainsworth
Sundown Trail
as Dorothy 'Dottie' Beals
The Common Law
as Stephanie Brown
Forgotten Women
as Patricia Young
Young Donovan's Kid
as Kitty Costello
Easy to Get
as Marion
Swellhead
as Mamie Judd
Shadow of the Law
as Edith Wentworth
On Your Back
as Jeanne Burke
Wise Girls
as Ruth Bence