

Cast & creator
Best known for The Donna Reed Show, Starsky & Hutch, Dragonwyck
Gertrude Madeline "Trudy" Marshall was an American actress and model. A popular magazine cigarette girl during her modeling days for Harry Conover, Marshall 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. She played a featured role in the World War II war drama The Fighting 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 the surviving sister Genevieve. 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. She appeared in the movie Once Is Not Enough with her daughter Deborah Raffin. Marshall was the hostess of her own radio and TV show in the 1980s in which she interviewed stars who attended special Hollywood event.
Also known as: Gertrude Madeline Marshall, Gertrude Madeline "Trudy" Marshall
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1942–1979 · acting roles
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Elizabeth Van Borden
1946
Jane Van Cleve - Jack's Wife (uncredited)
1943
Myrna
1975
Frankie Mason (uncredited)
1951
Toni Marlowe
1946
Sara Franzen
1948
Telephone Operator
1943
Girl Friend
1943
Trudy Harlan
1943
Marilyn Crothers (uncredited)
1942
Lady Trucker
1979
Irene
1946
Mrs. Ross
1944
Agnes Hannon
1945
Phyllis Hamilton
1947
Gloria
1944
Anne Ridgeway
1949
Genevieve 'Gen' Sullivan
1944
Barbara Bentley
1950
Marge Andrews
1947
Corky Corcoran
1946
Nina
1947
Lenora Baldwin
1945
Ruth
1946
Jerry Hansford
1948
Susan Newton
1962

Carol Northrup
1944
Carol Judson
1949
Ann Rogers
1947