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- Trudy Marshall was born on February 14, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Dragonwyck (1946), The Dancing Masters (1943) and Too Many Winners (1947). She was married to Philip Jordan Raffin and Leland Lindsay. She died on May 23, 2004 in Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpousesPhilip Jordan Raffin(November 17, 1944 - November 10, 1981) (his death, 3 children)Leland Lindsay(June 16, 1940 - November 16, 1944) (divorced)
- Children
- Her film stardom was more or less sabotaged by Fox head Darryl F. Zanuck as punishment for marrying a man against his expressed wishes. Her career didn't survive but her marriage did.
- A popular magazine cigarette girl during her modeling days for Harry Conover, she was "The Old Gold Girl", "The Chesterfield Girl" and "The Lucky Strike Girl" at different times.
- Signed by 20th Century-Fox and groomed in bit parts, her best known featured role was in the WWII war drama The Fighting Sullivans (1944), the true story of a family that lost all five enlisted sons in the sinking of the USS Juneau off Guadalcanal in November of 1942. She played a surviving sister who joins the Navy after her brothers' death.
- Semi-retired by the 1960s, she returned very infrequently to Hollywood. One of those times was in a brief role in Once Is Not Enough (1975). which made a semi-name out of her daughter, Deborah Raffin, who, like her mother, started off as a model.
- Former New York photographer's model.
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