Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
41
Gender
Female
Birthday
December 03, 1910 ( 94 years old )
Place of Birth
Denver, Colorado, USA
Also Known As
Marion Helen Schilling
Marion Shilling
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.
Known For
A Man's Land
1932-06-10Cavalcade of the West
1936-10-01The Swellhead
1930-03-20Curtain at Eight
1933-10-01Rio Rattler
1935-08-01A Shot in the Dark
1935-01-31The Keeper of the Bees
1935-07-14Captured in Chinatown
1935-07-13Niagara Falls
1932-06-27Take 'em and Shake 'em
1931-09-28