Acting · Denver, Colorado, USA · Born December 3, 1910
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.
MovieClara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999
as Self
MovieCavalcade of the West
1936
as Mary Christman
MovieRomance Rides the Range
1936
as Carol Marland
MovieThe Idaho Kid
1936
as Ruth Endicott
MovieThe Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
1936
as Verna Gironda
MovieI'll Name the Murderer
1936
as Smitty
MovieGun Play
1935
as Madge Holt
MovieRio Rattler
1935
as Mary Adams
MovieSociety Fever
1935
as Victoria Vandergriff
MovieThe Keeper of the Bees
1935
as Louise
MovieCaptured in Chinatown
1935
as Ann Parker
MovieGun Smoke
1935
as Jean Culverson
MovieStone of Silver Creek
1935
as Martha Mason
MovieBlazing Guns
1935
as Betty Lou Rickard
MovieA Shot in the Dark
1935
as Jean Coates
MovieThe Westerner
1934
as Juanita Barnes
MovieElinor Norton
1934
as Publisher's Staff
MovieThunder Over Texas
1934
as Helen Mason
MovieInside Information
1934
as Anne Seton
MovieThe Red Rider
1934
as Marie Maxwell
MovieFighting to Live
1934
as Mary Carson
MovieCurtain at Eight
1933
as Anice Cresmer
The Heart Punch
1932
as Kitty Doyle
A Parisian Romance
1932
as Claudette
MovieNiagara Falls
1932
MovieA Man's Land
1932
as Peggy Turner
Gigolettes
1932
as Marion
MovieRule 'Em and Weep
1932
as Ramona
MovieThe County Fair
1932
as Alice Ainsworth
MovieShop Angel
1932
as Dorothy Hayes
MovieEasy to Get
1931
as Marion
MovieForgotten Women
1931
as Patricia Young
Take 'em and Shake 'em
1931
MovieSundown Trail
1931
as Dorothy 'Dottie' Beals
MovieThe Common Law
1931
as Stephanie Brown
MovieYoung Donovan's Kid
1931
as Kitty Costello
MovieBeyond Victory
1931
as Ina
MovieOn Your Back
1930
as Jeanne Burke
MovieShadow of the Law
1930
as Edith Wentworth
MovieSwellhead
1930
as Mamie Judd
MovieLord Byron of Broadway
1930
as Nancy
MovieWise Girls
1929
as Ruth Bence
