Brenda Marshall

Born: 1915-09-29

​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 (1943) was a popular success but she virtually retired after this, appearing in only four more inconsequential films. Among these, she played scientist Nora Goodrich in the grade-B 1946 cult classic Strange Impersonation. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brenda Marshall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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The Sea Hawk

as Doña Maria Alvarez de Cordoba
Released: 1940-08-10

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love...

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The Constant Nymph

as Toni Sanger
Released: 1943-06-23

The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the...

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Blackwell's Island

as Reynolds' Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1939-01-24

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

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Whispering Smith

as Marian Sinclair
Released: 1948-12-09

Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad...

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The Man Who Talked Too Much

as Celia Farrady
Released: 1940-07-16

A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's...

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Captains of the Clouds

as Emily Foster
Released: 1942-02-12

Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean...

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Strange Impersonation

as Nora Goodrich
Released: 1946-03-16

A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her...

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Singapore Woman

as Vicki Moore
Released: 1941-05-17

A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.

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Footsteps in the Dark

as Rita Warren
Released: 1941-03-08

A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police...

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The Smiling Ghost

as Lil Barstow
Released: 1941-09-06

Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt...

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Background to Danger

as Tamara Zaleshoff
Released: 1943-07-03

An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.

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East of the River

as Laurie Romayne
Released: 1940-11-09

Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other...

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Espionage Agent

as Brenda Ballard
Released: 1939-09-30

When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the...

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The Iroquois Trail

as Marion
Released: 1950-06-15

An American scout and his Indian friend help the English troops against the French during the...

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You Can't Escape Forever

as Laurie Abbott
Released: 1942-10-10

A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime...

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Money and the Woman

as Barbara Patteson
Released: 1940-08-17

An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.

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Highway West

as Claire Foster
Released: 1941-08-07

A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.

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Paris After Dark

as Yvonne Blanchard
Released: 1943-10-15

Andre Marbel is the upper-class doctor who is able to continue his practice above suspicion even...

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Breakdowns of 1941

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1941-11-14

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.

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South of Suez

as Katharine 'Kit' Sheffield
Released: 1940-11-16

Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him...

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Wings Up

as Herself
Released: 1943-05-27

Clark Gable stars in this propaganda short about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air...

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I Love Lucy

as Brenda Marshall
First aired: 1951-10-15

Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife....

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The Colgate Comedy Hour

as Self
First aired: 1950-09-10

The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC...

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