Brenda Marshall
| Brenda Marshall | |
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Publicity shot circa 1950
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| Born |
Ardis Ankerson September 29, 1915 Negros, Philippines |
| Died | July 30, 1992 (aged 76) Palm Springs, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Throat cancer |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1939–1950 |
| Spouse(s) |
Richard Gaines (m. 1936; div. 1940) William Holden (m. 1941; div. 1971) |
| Children | 3 |
Brenda Marshall (September 29, 1915 – July 30, 1992) was an American film actress. She was born Ardis Ankerson in the Philippines. However, she was best known by her stage name of Brenda Marshall. Some question exists regarding the exact date of her birth. An article in the December 31, 1939, issue of the Salt Lake Tribune says that she was born November 29, 1915.
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 William Holden in 1941, and her own career soon slowed. She starred opposite James Cagney in Captains of the Clouds (1942).
Marshall had a popular success in The Constant Nymph (1943), but she virtually retired after this, appearing in only four more inconsequential films. In one of these, she played scientist Nora Goodrich in the B picture cult classic Strange Impersonation (1946). In 1955, five years after her last film role, she made an appearance as herself (billed as Mrs. William Holden) in the fourth-season episode of I Love Lucy entitled "The Fashion Show".
She was born Ardis Ankerson on September 29, 1915 in Negros, Philippines, the younger of two daughters of Otto Peter Ankerson, overseer of a large sugar plantation near Bacolod. Her mother died in 1925 when she was young, so Ardis, along with her older sister Ruth, attended grammar school and began high school studies as boarding students at the Brent School in Baguio City. In the early 1930s, the girls were sent to San Antonio, Texas, to complete high school. She attended Texas Woman's College for her freshman and sophomore years, 1934-35, and was named the Freshman Class Beauty in 1934, chosen by modern dancer Ted Shawn.
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