1. Brenda Marshall's initial billing as Brenda Marshall came in Espionage Agent.
10 Facts About Brenda Marshall
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Brenda Marshall starred opposite James Cagney in Captains of the Clouds.
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Brenda Marshall appeared in The Constant Nymph, but she virtually retired after this, appearing in only four more films, including the Western Whispering Smith.
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Brenda Marshall played scientist Nora Goodrich in the B picture cult film Strange Impersonation.
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Brenda Marshall was born as Ardis Ankerson in the island of Negros, in the Philippines to Swedish parents.
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Brenda Marshall did not use her stage name off set.
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Brenda Marshall was one of two daughters of Otto Peter Ankerson, overseer of a large sugar plantation near Bacolod.
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Brenda Marshall's 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.
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In 1941, Brenda Marshall married actor William Holden, who adopted Virginia, and Brenda Marshall and Holden had two sons together, Peter Westfield "West" Holden and Scott Porter Holden.
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Brenda Marshall died in 1992 from throat cancer in Palm Springs, aged 76.