Brenda Marshall

Acting

Brenda Marshall

Born — Died

1915-09-29 — 1992-07-30

Place of birth

Negros, Philippines

Known for

Acting

Credits

23 titles

​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 Str…

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 18 titles

The Sea Hawk poster
7.2

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.

The Sea Hawk

1940

Background to Danger poster
6.7

An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.

Background to Danger

1943

Money and the Woman poster
4.4

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

Money and the Woman

1940

Footsteps in the Dark poster
7.0

A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.

Footsteps in the Dark

1941

Breakdowns of 1941 poster
7.0

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

Breakdowns of 1941

1941

Whispering Smith poster
6.7

Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to have an interest in Murray's wife (and vice versa).

Whispering Smith

1948

The Constant Nymph poster
6.3

The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own grown daughter, who begins a romance with the composer which culminates in marriage but creates an emotional rivalry that affects the three.

The Constant Nymph

1943

Highway West poster
6.6

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

Highway West

1941

Captains of the Clouds poster
6.4

Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF.

Captains of the Clouds

1942

East of the River poster
6.2

Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.

East of the River

1940

You Can't Escape Forever poster
6.0

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

You Can't Escape Forever

1942

Singapore Woman poster
7.2

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

Singapore Woman

1941

Strange Impersonation poster
6.1

A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her scheming assistant intentionally scars her face, her almost-fiancee appears to have deserted her and she finds herself being blackmailed by a women she accidentally knocked down with her car.

Strange Impersonation

1946

The Man Who Talked Too Much poster
6.4

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

The Man Who Talked Too Much

1940

Wings Up poster
5.7

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

Wings Up

1943

The Smiling Ghost poster
6.7

Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.

The Smiling Ghost

1941

South of Suez poster
4.6

Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger Smythe's mine just as he was about to strike it rich, kills Smythe and blames it on Gamble. Grabbing the diamonds, Gamble flees Africa to England where he changes his name and begins a new life. What he hasn't counted on, though, is meeting and falling in love with Smythe's daughter Katherine, who falls in love with him but can't marry him until she can deal with her hatred of John Gamble, the man she believes killed her father.

South of Suez

1940

Paris After Dark poster
6.1

Andre Marbel is the upper-class doctor who is able to continue his practice above suspicion even though he is a leader in the French Resistance. His nurse supports his activities, but her Nazi-brainwashed husband provides the tension.

Paris After Dark

1943

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