BRENDA MARSHALL ,AMERICAN FILM ACTRESS BORN ON 1915 SEPTEMBER 29

BRENDA MARSHALL ,AMERICAN FILM ACTRESS

BORN ON 1915 SEPTEMBER 29

Brenda Marshall (September 29, 1915 – July 30, 1992), the stage name of Ardis Ankerson, was an American film actress. 

Career[edit]

Born 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 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".

Personal life[edit]

Matron of honor Brenda Marshall and best man William Holden, sole guests at Ronald and Nancy Reagan's wedding in 1952.
She was born Ardis Ankerson on September 29, 1915 in Negros, Philippines,[2] the younger of two daughters of Otto Peter Ankerson, overseer of a large sugar plantation. Her mother died when she was young, and the girls were sent to San Antonio, Texas to complete high school.[3] She attended Texas Woman's College for her freshman and sophomore years, 1934-35. She was named the Freshman Class Beauty in 1934, chosen by modern dancer Ted Shawn.[4]

KIDS

Brenda Marshall was her stage name but she refused to use the name off-camera and insisted that her friends call her by her real name. First married to actor Richard Huston Gaines (born July 23, 1904, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, died July 20, 1975, North Hollywood, California[5]) in 1936, they had one daughter, Virginia; the couple divorced in 1940.[6]

In 1941, Marshall married actor William Holden, who subsequently adopted Virginia Gaines (born November 17, 1937, New York City). 















Marshall and Holden had two additional children: Scott Porter Holden (born May 2, 1946, died January 21, 2005[7]) and Peter Westfield Holden (born November 17, 1943, died June 2014).

After several separations, Marshall and Holden were divorced in 1971. Marshall died in 1992 from throat cancer in Palm Springs, California, aged 76.[citation needed]

Filmography[edit]

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1939	Espionage Agent	Miss Brenda Ballard
1940	The Man Who Talked Too Much	Celia Farrady
	The Sea Hawk	Doña Maria	with Errol Flynn
	Money and the Woman	Barbara Patteson
	East of the River	Laurie Romayne
	South of Suez	Katharine 'Kit' Sheffield
1941	Footsteps in the Dark	Rita Warren
	Singapore Woman	Vicki Moore
	Highway West	Claire Foster	62 mins.
	The Smiling Ghost	Lil Barstow
1942	Captains of the Clouds	Emily Foster
	You Can't Escape Forever	Laurie Abbott
1943	The Constant Nymph	Toni Sanger
	Background to Danger	Tamara Zaleshoff
	Paris After Dark	Yvonne Blanchard
1946	Strange Impersonation	Nora Goodrich
	Whispering Smith	Marian Sinclair
1950	The Iroquois Trail	Marion Thorne