Brenda Marshall
Birthday
1915/09/29
Day of death
1992/07/30 (76 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Negros, Philippines
Also know as
Ardis Ankerson Gaines
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...Read more
Acting
(1946) Strange Impersonation
as Nora Goodrich
(1942) Captains of the Clouds
as Emily Foster
(1940) The Sea Hawk
as Doña Maria Alvarez de Cordoba
(1942) You Can't Escape Forever
as Laurie Abbott
(1943) Background to Danger
as Tamara Zaleshoff
(1948) Whispering Smith
as Marian Sinclair
(1941) Footsteps in the Dark
as Rita Warren
(1941) Highway West
as Claire Foster
(1941) The Smiling Ghost
as Lil Barstow
(1943) The Constant Nymph
as Toni Sanger
(1939) Espionage Agent
as Brenda Ballard
(1940) The Man Who Talked Too Much
as Celia Farrady
(1940) East of the River
as Laurie Romayne
(1943) Paris After Dark
as Yvonne Blanchard
(1940) Money and the Woman
as Barbara Patteson
(1940) South of Suez
as Katharine 'Kit' Sheffield
(1941) Singapore Woman
as Vicki Moore
(1950) The Iroquois Trail
as Marion
(1939) Blackwell's Island
as Reynolds' Secretary (uncredited)
(1941) Breakdowns of 1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1943) Wings Up
as Herself
(1950) The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
(1951) I Love Lucy
as Brenda Marshall