Marion Shilling

Known for ActingBorn 1910-12-03Died 2004-11-06Denver, Colorado, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Heart Punch

Rule 'Em and Weep

Take 'em and Shake 'em

Young Donovan's Kid

Gun Smoke

Beyond Victory

Swellhead

Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl

Romance Rides the Range

Blazing Guns

Stone of Silver Creek

Fighting to Live

The Westerner

Niagara Falls

Forgotten Women

On Your Back

Sundown Trail

Rio Rattler

A Man's Land

The Idaho Kid

Society Fever

The Red Rider

Shop Angel

The County Fair

Thunder Over Texas

Shadow of the Law

Elinor Norton

Inside Information

Curtain at Eight

A Shot in the Dark

The Keeper of the Bees

Gun Play

The Common Law

Wise Girls

The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand

Cavalcade of the West

I'll Name the Murderer

Captured in Chinatown

A Parisian Romance

Lord Byron of Broadway

Gigolettes

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