Marion Shilling

Marion Shilling

Born: December 3, 1910
Died: November 6, 2004
in Denver, Colorado, USA
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.

Movies for Marion Shilling...

Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
Title: Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
Character: Self
Released: June 14, 1999
Type: Movie
Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.
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Cavalcade of the West
Title: Cavalcade of the West
Character: Mary Christman
Released: October 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Two brothers are separated when young. One becomes the pony express rider Clint Knox and the other the outlaw Ace Carter.
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Romance Rides the Range
Title: Romance Rides the Range
Character: Carol Marland
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Baritone singer Barry Glendon, completing a successful season in opera, departs for his ranch in the west over the objections of his manager Tony. Arriving there with his double-talking friend Shorty, Barry learns that a parcel of his vast ranch has been fraudulently sold to Carol Marland and her ailing (and tiresome) young brother Johnny. Pretending he is only the foreman, and having his cowhands go along with it,Barry allows Carol and her whining, growing-ever-more-tiresome brother to believe that they are the actual owners in order to give him a free hand in running down the swindlers who victimized Carol who, with a brother like hers, was a victim to begin with.Barry learns that brothers Clem and Jonas Allen are the villains and,through a ruse in which they are led to believe there is a hidden treasure on the land they sold Carol, they try to buy it back bidding against Barry, who forces the price up.
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The Idaho Kid
Title: The Idaho Kid
Character: Ruth Endicott
Released: August 5, 1936
Type: Movie
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 is unaware that Idaho is his long lost son.
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The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
Title: The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
Character: Verna Gironda
Released: April 17, 1936
Type: Movie
15-Chapter Serial about a scientist that discovers a formula for making synthetic gold and the people that want it.
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I'll Name the Murderer
Title: I'll Name the Murderer
Character: Smitty
Released: January 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Gossip columnist Tommy Tilton, who excels in slinging nonsense about, is not a timid bluffer when it comes to coaxing out a murderer.
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Gun Play
Title: Gun Play
Character: Madge Holt
Released: December 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A cowboy comes to the aid of a lady rancher threatened by Mexican bandits who believe there is a treasure buried on her land.
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Rio Rattler
Title: Rio Rattler
Character: Mary Adams
Released: August 1, 1935
Type: Movie
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 assume the Marshal's identity. Mason, the chief, now sends Rattler, the killer of the Marshal, to also kill Tom. But when he overhears Tom is a fake, they change their plans and now go to arrest Tom for the murder of the Marshal.
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Society Fever
Title: Society Fever
Character: Victoria Vandergriff
Released: July 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A mother starts to get worried when she finds out that some wealthy friends have been invited to dinner with her somewhat screwball family.
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The Keeper of the Bees
Title: The Keeper of the Bees
Character: Louise
Released: July 14, 1935
Type: Movie
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 called Bee Master and his protégé, Little Scout, who try to convince him that he has more to live for than he thinks he does.
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Captured in Chinatown
Title: Captured in Chinatown
Character: Ann Parker
Released: July 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A feud between two gangs in Chinatown breaks out into a tong war.
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Gun Smoke
Title: Gun Smoke
Character: Jean Culverson
Released: May 1, 1935
Type: Movie
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 his way is hired gunman and crooked lawyer Sneed. T
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Stone of Silver Creek
Title: Stone of Silver Creek
Character: Martha Mason
Released: April 14, 1935
Type: Movie
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 only gambling establishment in otherwise God-fearing Silver Creek. Noel Francis, who used to play blonde schemers in Warner Bros. gangster films, earns second billing as the casino's equally goodhearted chanteuse.
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Blazing Guns
Title: Blazing Guns
Character: Betty Lou Rickard
Released: February 3, 1935
Type: Movie
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 they burn. After Grady saves the Ricard's from their burning house, Betty Lou saves Grady from hanging at the hands of the masked vigilantes. Grady recognizes the voice of Raton among the vigilantes and now knows who to go after.
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A Shot in the Dark
Title: A Shot in the Dark
Character: Jean Coates
Released: January 31, 1935
Type: Movie
An amateur sleuth solves three murders at his son's New England college.
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Elinor Norton
Title: Elinor Norton
Character: Publisher's Staff
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
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 husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude ranch. Her lover also goes, and the two men soon become friends. The coffee magnate helps to cure him, but then breaks his heart by telling him that he and the wife are planning to run away.
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Thunder Over Texas
Title: Thunder Over Texas
Character: Helen Mason
Released: October 18, 1934
Type: Movie
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 the killers are after her because they think she has the maps.
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Inside Information
Title: Inside Information
Character: Anne Seton
Released: September 24, 1934
Type: Movie
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 Famous Police Dog, has an intuitive dislike of an apparently respectable citizen, and this leads Wilson and the police to the gang headquarters. Tarzan wins a public citation for his leading part in breaking the case against a desperate gang of criminals.
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The Red Rider
Title: The Red Rider
Character: Marie Maxwell
Released: July 16, 1934
Type: Movie
"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 noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of "Scotty McKee (J.P. McGowan). Davidson allows Slade to escape from jail and follows him to aid him in proving his innocence.
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Fighting to Live
Title: Fighting to Live
Character: Mary Carson
Released: April 6, 1934
Type: Movie
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 dog is killing their chickens. They want to kill the dog but John convinces them the dog's fate should be determined by a trial.
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Curtain at Eight
Title: Curtain at Eight
Character: Anice Cresmer
Released: October 1, 1933
Type: Movie
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?
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The Heart Punch
Title: The Heart Punch
Character: Kitty Doyle
Released: October 17, 1932
Type: Movie
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.
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A Parisian Romance
Title: A Parisian Romance
Character: Claudette
Released: October 1, 1932
Type: Movie
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 see who he will sleep with at night. His adversary is a young Parisian artist (the next Picasso), Victor. Victor believes in love and he's going to marry his girlfriend Claudette as soon as he sells his first painting. The Baron seduces Claudette, seemingly to teach Victor a lesson. However, as might be predicted, he soon falls in love with Claudette himself.
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Niagara Falls
Title: Niagara Falls
Released: June 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Three girls try to evade the landlady while trying to find work.
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A Man's Land
Title: A Man's Land
Character: Peggy Turner
Released: June 10, 1932
Type: Movie
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 cattle. Tex not only has to fight the rustlers, he must also contend with Easterner Peggy's idea of what a ranch should be.
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Gigolettes
Title: Gigolettes
Character: Marion
Released: May 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Desperate for cash, three friends take a job running a run-down night club.
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The County Fair
Title: The County Fair
Character: Alice Ainsworth
Released: March 31, 1932
Type: Movie
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 gambling ring that doesn't want the horse entering the race has other plans.
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Shop Angel
Title: Shop Angel
Character: Dorothy Hayes
Released: March 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A dress designer is attracted to the fiancée of her boss' daughter, not knowing that her boss himself is in love with her.
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Easy to Get
Title: Easy to Get
Character: Marion
Released: December 7, 1931
Type: Movie
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. Later one of them gets a job as a co-respondent in a divorce suit, and Myers is the divorce-seeking husband.
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Forgotten Women
Title: Forgotten Women
Character: Patricia Young
Released: November 25, 1931
Type: Movie
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 revealing an independent film producer to have mob connections. As a result of the story, Jimmy becomes city editor.
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Take 'em and Shake 'em
Title: Take 'em and Shake 'em
Released: September 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Take 'em and Shake 'em is a 1931 Comedy short.
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Sundown Trail
Title: Sundown Trail
Character: Dorothy 'Dottie' Beals
Released: September 11, 1931
Type: Movie
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 stay on the ranch for 5 years. If she does not, everything goes to Buck, who is the manager. She does not like Buck, so she makes a deal with the wrong people for cattle and then the outlaws go to the ranch to get the $10,000 from her. But Buck is on the job.
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The Common Law
Title: The Common Law
Character: Stephanie Brown
Released: July 17, 1931
Type: Movie
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?
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Young Donovan's Kid
Title: Young Donovan's Kid
Character: Kitty Costello
Released: June 6, 1931
Type: Movie
A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children.
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Beyond Victory
Title: Beyond Victory
Character: Ina
Released: April 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
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On Your Back
Title: On Your Back
Character: Jeanne Burke
Released: September 14, 1930
Type: Movie
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. B. Warner, Wheeler Oakman, Marion Shilling and Ilka Chase.
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Shadow of the Law
Title: Shadow of the Law
Character: Edith Wentworth
Released: June 6, 1930
Type: Movie
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 shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
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Swellhead
Title: Swellhead
Character: Mamie Judd
Released: March 20, 1930
Type: Movie
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 then he loses his friends, loses his girl-friend, loses his confidence and is all set-up to lose his title.
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Lord Byron of Broadway
Title: Lord Byron of Broadway
Character: Nancy
Released: February 28, 1930
Type: Movie
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 uses their stories or their love for himself.
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Wise Girls
Title: Wise Girls
Character: Ruth Bence
Released: September 21, 1929
Type: Movie
Early MGM talkie about a retired businessman, his headstrong daughter, and the comical complications that result when she marries in haste.