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.
Marion Shilling Biography / Wiki
| Name | Marion Shilling |
| Also Know | Marion Helen Schilling |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Denver, Colorado, USA |
| Date of Birth | December 03, 1910 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 93 |
| Deathday | 2004-11-06 |
Marion Shilling Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Captured in Chinatown | Ann Parker | 1935-07-13 | A feud between two gangs in Chinatown breaks out into a tong war…. |
| Fighting to Live | Mary Carson | 1934-04-06 | When attacked by two dogs, Joe Gilmore leaves them on the desert to die. Later one of the dogs saves John Blake from drowning. Men arrive claiming the… |
| Forgotten Women | Patricia Young | 1931-11-25 | Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article re… |
| I’ll Name the Murderer | Smitty | 1936-01-26 | Gossip columnist Tommy Tilton, who excels in slinging nonsense about, is not a timid bluffer when it comes to coaxing out a murderer…. |
| A Parisian Romance | Claudette | 1932-10-01 | The Baron is an aging, cynical lady’s man. He has a key-chain with about 50 keys to different women’ apartments in Paris. He selects one at random to … |
| Sundown Trail | Dorothy ‘Dottie’ Beals | 1931-09-11 | Dorothy, and her big city lawyer boyfriend, return to the Lazy ‘B’ ranch to read her late father’s will. For Dorothy to inherit everything, she must s… |
| The Idaho Kid | Ruth Endicott | 1936-08-05 | Idaho, returning to the area he left as a boy, gets in the middle of a range feud. He takes the side of Endicott. On the other side is Hollister who i… |
| Gun Play | Madge Holt | 1935-12-02 | A cowboy comes to the aid of a lady rancher threatened by Mexican bandits who believe there is a treasure buried on her land…. |
| Gun Smoke | Jean Culverson | 1935-05-01 | Parker, seeking revenge on Culverson, is bringing in a flood of sheep. Branning signs on at the Culverson ranch to help fight them off. Standing in hi… |
| Shadow of the Law | Edith Wentworth | 1930-06-06 | John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the sha… |
| Thunder Over Texas | Helen Mason | 1934-10-18 | A cowboy tries to protect a young woman whose father was murdered because he had railroad maps that showed the location of a proposed new line. Now th… |
| The Heart Punch | Kitty Doyle | 1932-10-17 | During a boxing match a fighter accidentally kills his opponent in the ring. Afterwards he finds himself falling in love with the dead man’s sister…. |
| Blazing Guns | Betty Lou Rickard | 1935-02-03 | After Slug Raton takes Brady’s horse, hat, and gun, the Sheriff arrests Grady thinking he is the outlaw. Slug’s men chase them to Ricard’s ranch which… |
| Inside Information | Anne Seton | 1934-09-24 | Lloyd Wilson, trusted employee of an investment firm, is suspected of theft when $20,000 in security bonds is stolen from his office. Tarzan, the Famo… |
| Gigolettes | Marion | 1932-05-23 | Desperate for cash, three friends take a job running a run-down night club…. |
| The County Fair | Alice Ainsworth | 1932-03-31 | A Kentucky horse owner hires an ex-jockey, who is now working as a waiter, to train his thoroughbred race horse for an upcoming race. However, a gambl… |
| Young Donovan’s Kid | Kitty Costello | 1931-06-06 | A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children…. |
| Easy to Get | Marion | 1931-12-07 | In the third of Pathe’s Gay Girls comedy series, Harry Myers is a married man who strings one of them along until his wife Isabel Withers, comes along… |
| A Man’s Land | Peggy Turner | 1932-06-10 | Tex Mason and Peggy Turner each inherit one half of the Triple X Ranch. Thomas wants the ranch and he has Triple X hand Joe let his men rustle their c… |
| Niagara Falls | 1932-06-27 | Three girls try to evade the landlady while trying to find work…. | |
| Take ’em and Shake ’em | 1931-09-28 | Take ’em and Shake ’em is a 1931 Comedy short…. | |
| Cavalcade of the West | Mary Christman | 1936-10-01 | Two brothers are separated when young. One becomes the pony express rider Clint Knox and the other the outlaw Ace Carter…. |
| A Shot in the Dark | Jean Coates | 1935-01-31 | An amateur sleuth solves three murders at his son’s New England college…. |
| Rio Rattler | Mary Adams | 1935-08-01 | A dying Marshal gives his identification papers to Tom. After Tom arrives in town, the papers drop and are found during a fight so Tom decides to assu… |
| The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand | Verna Gironda | 1936-04-17 | 15-Chapter Serial about a scientist that discovers a formula for making synthetic gold and the people that want it…. |
| Romance Rides the Range | Carol Marland | 1936-09-01 | Baritone singer Barry Glendon, completing a successful season in opera, departs for his ranch in the west over the objections of his manager Tony. Arr… |
| The Red Rider | Marie Maxwell | 1934-07-16 | “Red” Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, “Silent” Slade from the hangman’s noo… |
| The Swellhead | Mamie Judd | 1930-03-20 | A young fighter, Bill Hickey, achieves success through the help and support of his friends and, once he does, he gets a big case of ‘swellhead.’ And t… |
| Lord Byron of Broadway | Nancy | 1930-02-28 | A talented songwriter gets his inspiration for songs from others and not from within himself. He is oblivious that he may harm other people when he us… |
| Stone of Silver Creek | Martha Mason | 1935-04-14 | In perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the tough but goodhearted proprietor of the Bonanza, the onl… |
| Beyond Victory | Ina | 1931-04-03 | Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind…. |
| On Your Back | Jeanne Burke | 1930-09-14 | On Your Back is a 1930 American drama film directed by Guthrie McClintic and written by Howard J. Green. The film stars Irene Rich, Raymond Hackett, H… |
| Wise Girls | Ruth Bence | 1929-09-21 | Early MGM talkie about a retired businessman, his headstrong daughter, and the comical complications that result when she marries in haste…. |
| Society Fever | Victoria Vandergriff | 1935-07-15 | A mother starts to get worried when she finds out that some wealthy friends have been invited to dinner with her somewhat screwball family…. |
| The Keeper of the Bees | Louise | 1935-07-14 | A severely traumatized World War I veteran, believing that he’s living on borrowed time, comes upon a peaceful little village and meets an old man cal… |
| The Common Law | Stephanie Brown | 1931-07-17 | When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty’s recent past as another man’s mistress?… |
| Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl | Self | 1999-06-14 | Clara Bow: Discovering the ‘It’ Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances…. |
| Curtain at Eight | Anice Cresmer | 1933-10-01 | An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? … |
| Elinor Norton | Publisher’s Staff | 1934-11-02 | A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her hus… |
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