Marion Shilling
Biography: 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.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 03, 1910
Deathday: November 06, 2004
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A Man's Land
1932-06-10
A Man's Land
Overview: Tex Mason and Peggy Turner each inherit one half of the Triple X Ranch. Thomas wants the ranch and he has Triple X hand Joe let his men rustle their cattle. Tex not only has to fight the rustlers, he must also contend with Easterner Peggy's idea of what a ranch should be.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-10
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Cavalcade of the West
1936-10-01
Cavalcade of the West
Overview: Two brothers are separated when young. One becomes the pony express rider Clint Knox and the other the outlaw Ace Carter.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-01
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Swellhead
1930-03-20
Swellhead
Overview: A young fighter, Bill Hickey, achieves success through the help and support of his friends and, once he does, he gets a big case of 'swellhead.' And then he loses his friends, loses his girl-friend, loses his confidence and is all set-up to lose his title.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-20
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Curtain at Eight
1933-10-01
Curtain at Eight
Overview: An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-01
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Rio Rattler
1935-08-01
Rio Rattler
Overview: A dying Marshal gives his identification papers to Tom. After Tom arrives in town, the papers drop and are found during a fight so Tom decides to assume the Marshal's identity. Mason, the chief, now sends Rattler, the killer of the Marshal, to also kill Tom. But when he overhears Tom is a fake, they change their plans and now go to arrest Tom for the murder of the Marshal.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-01
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A Shot in the Dark
1935-01-31
A Shot in the Dark
Overview: An amateur sleuth solves three murders at his son's New England college.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-31
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The Keeper of the Bees
1935-07-14
The Keeper of the Bees
Overview: A severely traumatized World War I veteran, believing that he's living on borrowed time, comes upon a peaceful little village and meets an old man called Bee Master and his protégé, Little Scout, who try to convince him that he has more to live for than he thinks he does.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-14
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Captured in Chinatown
1935-07-13
Captured in Chinatown
Overview: A feud between two gangs in Chinatown breaks out into a tong war.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-13
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Niagara Falls
1932-06-27
Niagara Falls
Overview: Three girls try to evade the landlady while trying to find work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-27
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Take 'em and Shake 'em
1931-09-28
Take 'em and Shake 'em
Overview: Take 'em and Shake 'em is a 1931 Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-28
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I'll Name the Murderer
1936-01-26
I'll Name the Murderer
Overview: Gossip columnist Tommy Tilton, who excels in slinging nonsense about, is not a timid bluffer when it comes to coaxing out a murderer.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-26
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A Parisian Romance
1932-10-01
A Parisian Romance
Overview: The Baron is an aging, cynical lady's man. He has a key-chain with about 50 keys to different women' apartments in Paris. He selects one at random to see who he will sleep with at night. His adversary is a young Parisian artist (the next Picasso), Victor. Victor believes in love and he's going to marry his girlfriend Claudette as soon as he sells his first painting. The Baron seduces Claudette, seemingly to teach Victor a lesson. However, as might be predicted, he soon falls in love with Claudette himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-01
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The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
1936-04-17
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
Overview: 15-Chapter Serial about a scientist that discovers a formula for making synthetic gold and the people that want it.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-17
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Sundown Trail
1931-09-11
Sundown Trail
Overview: Dorothy, and her big city lawyer boyfriend, return to the Lazy 'B' ranch to read her late father's will. For Dorothy to inherit everything, she must stay on the ranch for 5 years. If she does not, everything goes to Buck, who is the manager. She does not like Buck, so she makes a deal with the wrong people for cattle and then the outlaws go to the ranch to get the $10,000 from her. But Buck is on the job.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-11
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Thunder Over Texas
1934-10-18
Thunder Over Texas
Overview: A cowboy tries to protect a young woman whose father was murdered because he had railroad maps that showed the location of a proposed new line. Now the killers are after her because they think she has the maps.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-18
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The Idaho Kid
1936-08-05
The Idaho Kid
Overview: Idaho, returning to the area he left as a boy, gets in the middle of a range feud. He takes the side of Endicott. On the other side is Hollister who is unaware that Idaho is his long lost son.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-05
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Gun Play
1935-12-02
Gun Play
Overview: A cowboy comes to the aid of a lady rancher threatened by Mexican bandits who believe there is a treasure buried on her land.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-02
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Fighting to Live
1934-04-06
Fighting to Live
Overview: When attacked by two dogs, Joe Gilmore leaves them on the desert to die. Later one of the dogs saves John Blake from drowning. Men arrive claiming the dog is killing their chickens. They want to kill the dog but John convinces them the dog's fate should be determined by a trial.
Genres: Comedy Western Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-06
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Shop Angel
1932-03-19
Shop Angel
Overview: A dress designer is attracted to the fiancée of her boss' daughter, not knowing that her boss himself is in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-19
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The Common Law
1931-07-17
The Common Law
Overview: When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-17
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Beyond Victory
1931-04-03
Beyond Victory
Overview: Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-03
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Wise Girls
1929-09-21
Wise Girls
Overview: Early MGM talkie about a retired businessman, his headstrong daughter, and the comical complications that result when she marries in haste.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-21
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Gun Smoke
1935-05-01
Gun Smoke
Overview: Parker, seeking revenge on Culverson, is bringing in a flood of sheep. Branning signs on at the Culverson ranch to help fight them off. Standing in his way is hired gunman and crooked lawyer Sneed. T
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-01
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Elinor Norton
1934-11-02
Elinor Norton
Overview: A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude ranch. Her lover also goes, and the two men soon become friends. The coffee magnate helps to cure him, but then breaks his heart by telling him that he and the wife are planning to run away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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Lord Byron of Broadway
1930-02-28
Lord Byron of Broadway
Overview: A talented songwriter gets his inspiration for songs from others and not from within himself. He is oblivious that he may harm other people when he uses their stories or their love for himself.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-28
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Shadow of the Law
1930-06-06
Shadow of the Law
Overview: John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-06
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Romance Rides the Range
1936-09-01
Romance Rides the Range
Overview: Baritone singer Barry Glendon, completing a successful season in opera, departs for his ranch in the west over the objections of his manager Tony. Arriving there with his double-talking friend Shorty, Barry learns that a parcel of his vast ranch has been fraudulently sold to Carol Marland and her ailing (and tiresome) young brother Johnny. Pretending he is only the foreman, and having his cowhands go along with it,Barry allows Carol and her whining, growing-ever-more-tiresome brother to believe that they are the actual owners in order to give him a free hand in running down the swindlers who victimized Carol who, with a brother like hers, was a victim to begin with.Barry learns that brothers Clem and Jonas Allen are the villains and,through a ruse in which they are led to believe there is a hidden treasure on the land they sold Carol, they try to buy it back bidding against Barry, who forces the price up.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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Forgotten Women
1931-11-25
Forgotten Women
Overview: Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article revealing an independent film producer to have mob connections. As a result of the story, Jimmy becomes city editor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-25
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The Heart Punch
1932-10-17
The Heart Punch
Overview: During a boxing match a fighter accidentally kills his opponent in the ring. Afterwards he finds himself falling in love with the dead man's sister.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-17
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Blazing Guns
1935-02-03
Blazing Guns
Overview: After Slug Raton takes Brady's horse, hat, and gun, the Sheriff arrests Grady thinking he is the outlaw. Slug's men chase them to Ricard's ranch which they burn. After Grady saves the Ricard's from their burning house, Betty Lou saves Grady from hanging at the hands of the masked vigilantes. Grady recognizes the voice of Raton among the vigilantes and now knows who to go after.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-03
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The Red Rider
1934-07-16
The Red Rider
Overview: "Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of "Scotty McKee (J.P. McGowan). Davidson allows Slade to escape from jail and follows him to aid him in proving his innocence.
Genres: Comedy Western Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-16
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Stone of Silver Creek
1935-04-14
Stone of Silver Creek
Overview: In perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the tough but goodhearted proprietor of the Bonanza, the only gambling establishment in otherwise God-fearing Silver Creek. Noel Francis, who used to play blonde schemers in Warner Bros. gangster films, earns second billing as the casino's equally goodhearted chanteuse.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-14
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Society Fever
1935-07-15
Society Fever
Overview: A mother starts to get worried when she finds out that some wealthy friends have been invited to dinner with her somewhat screwball family.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-15
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Inside Information
1934-09-24
Inside Information
Overview: Lloyd Wilson, trusted employee of an investment firm, is suspected of theft when $20,000 in security bonds is stolen from his office. Tarzan, the Famous Police Dog, has an intuitive dislike of an apparently respectable citizen, and this leads Wilson and the police to the gang headquarters. Tarzan wins a public citation for his leading part in breaking the case against a desperate gang of criminals.
Genres: Crime Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-24
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Rule 'Em and Weep
1932-05-02
Rule 'Em and Weep
Overview: King Bool returns to Bulvania to claim his throne and his girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-02
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On Your Back
1930-09-14
On Your Back
Overview: On Your Back is a 1930 American drama film directed by Guthrie McClintic and written by Howard J. Green. The film stars Irene Rich, Raymond Hackett, H. B. Warner, Wheeler Oakman, Marion Shilling and Ilka Chase.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-14
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Gigolettes
1932-05-23
Gigolettes
Overview: Desperate for cash, three friends take a job running a run-down night club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-23
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The County Fair
1932-03-31
The County Fair
Overview: A Kentucky horse owner hires an ex-jockey, who is now working as a waiter, to train his thoroughbred race horse for an upcoming race. However, a gambling ring that doesn't want the horse entering the race has other plans.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-31
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Young Donovan's Kid
1931-06-06
Young Donovan's Kid
Overview: A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-06
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Easy to Get
1931-12-07
Easy to Get
Overview: In the third of Pathe's Gay Girls comedy series, Harry Myers is a married man who strings one of them along until his wife Isabel Withers, comes along. Later one of them gets a job as a co-respondent in a divorce suit, and Myers is the divorce-seeking husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-07
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Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
1999-06-14
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
Overview: Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-14
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The Westerner
1934-12-10
The Westerner
Overview: A rancher (Tim McCoy) and his buddy (Joseph Sauers) scare rustlers out of business.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-10
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