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
all 41
Movies 41
self 1
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl (1999)
Cavalcade of the West (1936)
Romance Rides the Range (1936)
The Idaho Kid (1936)
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand (1936)
I'll Name the Murderer (1936)
Gun Play (1935)
Rio Rattler (1935)
Society Fever (1935)
The Keeper of the Bees (1935)
Captured in Chinatown (1935)
Gun Smoke (1935)
Stone of Silver Creek (1935)
Blazing Guns (1935)
A Shot in the Dark (1935)
The Westerner (1934)
Elinor Norton (1934)
Thunder Over Texas (1934)
Inside Information (1934)
The Red Rider (1934)
Fighting to Live (1934)
Curtain at Eight (1933)
The Heart Punch (1932)
A Parisian Romance (1932)
Niagara Falls (1932)
A Man's Land (1932)
Gigolettes (1932)
The County Fair (1932)
Shop Angel (1932)
Easy to Get (1931)
Forgotten Women (1931)
Take 'em and Shake 'em (1931)
Sundown Trail (1931)
The Common Law (1931)
Young Donovan's Kid (1931)
Beyond Victory (1931)
On Your Back (1930)
Shadow of the Law (1930)
Swellhead (1930)
Lord Byron of Broadway (1930)
Wise Girls (1929)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1910-12-03
Deathday2004-11-06 (93 years old)
Birth PlaceDenver, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsMarion Helen Schilling
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