Marion Shilling Trailers
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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.
Most Popular Marion Shilling Trailers
Total trailers found: 42
17 April 1936
15-Chapter Serial about a scientist that discovers a formula for making synthetic gold and the people that want it.
25 November 1931
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.
06 June 1930
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.
03 February 1935
After Slug Raton takes Brady's horse, hat, and gun, the Sheriff arrests Grady thinking he is the outlaw.
23 May 1932
Desperate for cash, three friends take a job running a run-down night club.
28 September 1931
Take 'em and Shake 'em is a 1931 Comedy short.
27 June 1932
Three girls try to evade the landlady while trying to find work.
14 April 1935
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.
11 September 1931
Dorothy, and her big city lawyer boyfriend, return to the Lazy 'B' ranch to read her late father's will.
31 March 1932
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.
02 December 1935
A cowboy comes to the aid of a lady rancher threatened by Mexican bandits who believe there is a treasure buried on her land.
06 April 1934
When attacked by two dogs, Joe Gilmore leaves them on the desert to die. Later one of the dogs saves John Blake from drowning.
02 May 1932
King Bool returns to Bulvania to claim his throne and his girl.
10 June 1932
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.
31 January 1935
An amateur sleuth solves three murders at his son's New England college.
24 September 1934
Lloyd Wilson, trusted employee of an investment firm, is suspected of theft when $20,000 in security bonds is stolen from his office.
17 October 1932
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.
18 October 1934
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.
14 July 1935
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.
01 October 1936
Two brothers are separated when young. One becomes the pony express rider Clint Knox and the other the outlaw Ace Carter.
07 December 1931
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.
01 August 1935
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.
13 July 1935
A feud between two gangs in Chinatown breaks out into a tong war.
05 August 1936
Idaho, returning to the area he left as a boy, gets in the middle of a range feud. He takes the side of Endicott.
16 July 1934
"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.
01 October 1933
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee?
15 July 1935
A mother starts to get worried when she finds out that some wealthy friends have been invited to dinner with her somewhat screwball family.
17 July 1931
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?
03 April 1931
Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
28 February 1930
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.
02 November 1934
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.
01 May 1935
Parker, seeking revenge on Culverson, is bringing in a flood of sheep. Branning signs on at the Culverson ranch to help fight them off.
01 September 1936
Baritone singer Barry Glendon, completing a successful season in opera, departs for his ranch in the west over the objections of his manager Tony.
19 March 1932
A dress designer is attracted to the fiancée of her boss' daughter, not knowing that her boss himself is in love with her.
01 October 1932
The Baron is an aging, cynical lady's man. He has a key-chain with about 50 keys to different women' apartments in Paris.
26 January 1936
Gossip columnist Tommy Tilton, who excels in slinging nonsense about, is not a timid bluffer when it comes to coaxing out a murderer.
20 March 1930
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.
14 September 1930
On Your Back is a 1930 American drama film directed by Guthrie McClintic and written by Howard J. Green.
21 September 1929
Early MGM talkie about a retired businessman, his headstrong daughter, and the comical complications that result when she marries in haste.
14 June 1999
Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.
06 June 1931
A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children.
10 December 1934
A rancher (Tim McCoy) and his buddy (Joseph Sauers) scare rustlers out of business.