
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.

Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl

Sundown Trail

The Idaho Kid

Shadow of the Law

A Man's Land

Rio Rattler

Elinor Norton

Society Fever

Curtain at Eight

The Keeper of the Bees

Inside Information

A Shot in the Dark

The Common Law

Thunder Over Texas

Gun Play

The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand

Wise Girls

Cavalcade of the West

Captured in Chinatown

I'll Name the Murderer

The Red Rider

Lord Byron of Broadway

Easy to Get

The Swellhead

Niagara Falls

Fighting to Live

Shop Angel

Beyond Victory

Gun Smoke

Romance Rides the Range

Forgotten Women

Blazing Guns

Stone of Silver Creek

Rule 'Em and Weep

On Your Back

The County Fair

Young Donovan's Kid

The Westerner