Brenda Marshall
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
Brenda Marshall (September 29, 1915 – July 30, 1992) was an American film actress. Born Ardis Ankerson in Negros, Philippines, Marshall made her first film appearance in the 1939 Espionage Agent. The following year, she played the leading lady to Errol Flynn in The Sea Hawk. After divorcing actor Richard Gaines in 1940, she married the actor William Holden in 1941 and her own career quickly slowed. She starred opposite James Cagney in the 1942 film Captains of the Clouds. The Constant Nymph (1...
Known For
Filmography
I Love Lucy
1951
as Brenda Marshall
The Iroquois Trail
1950
as Marion
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
as Self
Whispering Smith
1948
as Marian Sinclair
Strange Impersonation
1946
as Nora Goodrich
Background to Danger
1943
as Tamara Zaleshoff
The Constant Nymph
1943
as Toni Sanger
Paris After Dark
1943
as Yvonne Blanchard
Wings Up
1943
as Herself
Captains of the Clouds
1942
as Emily Foster
You Can't Escape Forever
1942
as Laurie Abbott
Footsteps in the Dark
1941
as Rita Warren
Highway West
1941
as Claire Foster
The Smiling Ghost
1941
as Lil Barstow
Singapore Woman
1941
as Vicki Moore
Breakdowns of 1941
1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Sea Hawk
1940
as Doña Maria Alvarez de Cordoba
The Man Who Talked Too Much
1940
as Celia Farrady
East of the River
1940
as Laurie Romayne
Money and the Woman
1940
as Barbara Patteson
South of Suez
1940
as Katharine 'Kit' Sheffield
Espionage Agent
1939
as Brenda Ballard
Blackwell's Island
1939
as Reynolds' Secretary (uncredited)