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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. While playing in Dracula on stage with Bela Lugosi, she developed a blood-curdling scream so effective, when she was working in Hollywood, she was asked to dub screams for Constance Bennett and Shilling's idol ...
Creamy-complexioned brunette Marion Shilling was a beauty inclined to be overlooked when recalling those fairly well-known "B" leading ladies of the 1930s. Born in 1910, the Denver-born actress started her career promisingly enough with a featured role in MGM's Wise Girls (1929).
Graceful, charming, beautiful, intelligent—all describe Marion Shilling, co-star to ten ‘30s B-Western heroes. Born Marion Helen Schilling, Dec. 3, 1910, in Denver, CO, her original aspirations were not theatrical.
Dec 3, 2004 · Marion Shilling, 93, a 1930s leading lady who appeared opposite Buck Jones, Hoot Gibson, Tim McCoy and other B-movie heroes, died of natural causes Nov. 6 at Torrance Memorial Medical Center.
Nov 6, 2004 · 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.
A favorite Western heroine of the early 1930s, dark-eyed Marion Shilling hailed from Denver, Colorado (born there December 3, 1910, 1911 or 1914, depending on the source) and paid her dues on the stage in 'Miss Lulu Betts', 'Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch', 'Lord Byron of Broadway', and, notably, 'Dracula' before entering films in 1930.
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actress. 93 years biography, photo, best movies and TV shows, news, birthday and age, Date of Death. «Cavalcade of the West» (1936), «Romance Rides the Range» (1936), «Idaho Kid» (1936), «The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand» (1936 – ...), «I'll Name the Murderer» (1936)...
May 7, 2023 · Marion Shilling was an American film actress of the 1930s. 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.
Shilling was known as a leading Hollywood “B” movie actress, appearing in over forty films from 1930-1936. Starring in mostly westerns and mysteries, she started her career in MGM’s Wise Girls in 1929.
