
Marion Shilling
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.
Acting (38 movies)

A Man's Land
1932

Cavalcade of the West
1936

Swellhead
1930

Curtain at Eight
1933

Rio Rattler
1935

A Shot in the Dark
1935

The Keeper of the Bees
1935

Captured in Chinatown
1935

Niagara Falls
1932

I'll Name the Murderer
1936

The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
1936

Sundown Trail
1931

Thunder Over Texas
1934

The Idaho Kid
1936

Gun Play
1935

Fighting to Live
1934

Shop Angel
1932

The Common Law
1931

Beyond Victory
1931

Wise Girls
1929

Gun Smoke
1935

Elinor Norton
1934

Lord Byron of Broadway
1930

Shadow of the Law
1930

Romance Rides the Range
1936

Forgotten Women
1931

The Red Rider
1934

Blazing Guns
1935

Stone of Silver Creek
1935

Society Fever
1935

Inside Information
1934

Rule 'Em and Weep
1932

On Your Back
1930

The County Fair
1932

Young Donovan's Kid
1931

Easy to Get
1931

Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
1999

The Westerner
1934
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