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Brenda Marshall (born Ardis Ankerson; September 29, 1915[1] – July 30, 1992), was an American film actress.

Brenda Marshall
Marshall in 1952
Born	Ardis Ankerson (1915-09-29)September 29, 1915 Negros, American Philippines
Died	July 30, 1992(1992-07-30) (aged 76) Palm Springs, California, U.S.
Other names	Ardis Gaines
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1939–1950
Spouse(s)	Richard Gaines ​ ​ (m. 1936; div. 1940)​ William Holden ​ ​ (m. 1941; div. 1971)​
Children	3

Career

Marshall made her first film appearance as Ardis Gaines in Wives of Tomorrow (1937). Her initial billing as Brenda Marshall came in Espionage Agent (1939).[2] 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 films, including the Western Whispering Smith (1948). She also played scientist Nora Goodrich in the B picture cult film 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 titled "The Fashion Show".

Personal life

Marshall was born as Ardis Ankerson in the American Philippines to Swedish parents. She was one of two daughters of Otto Peter Ankerson, overseer of a large sugar plantation near Bacolod. Her mother died in 1925 when she was young,[3] 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.[4] In the early 1930s, the girls were sent to San Antonio, Texas to complete high school.[5] She attended Texas State College for Women in her freshman and sophomore years, 1933–1935, and was named the Freshman Class Beauty in 1934, chosen by modern dancer Ted Shawn.[6]

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. She married the actor Richard Huston Gaines in 1936, and they had one daughter, Virginia; the couple divorced in 1940.[7]

In 1941, Marshall married actor William Holden, who adopted Virginia Gaines (born November 17, 1937, New York City). Marshall and Holden had two sons together, Peter Westfield "West" Holden (1943–2014) and Scott Porter Holden (1946–2005).[8] After several separations, Marshall and Holden were divorced in 1971. Marshall moved to Palm Springs, California in 1971.[9] She died in 1992 from throat cancer in Palm Springs, aged 76.[10]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1939	Blackwell's Island	Reynolds' Secretary	uncredited
	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	with Errol Flynn
	Singapore Woman	Vicki Moore
	Highway West	Claire Foster
	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	w/ George Raft
	Paris After Dark	Yvonne Blanchard
1946	Strange Impersonation	Nora Goodrich
	Whispering Smith	Marian Sinclair	with Alan Ladd
1950	The Iroquois Trail	Marion Thorne

References

Sources

• Capua, Michelangelo (2009). William Holden: A Biography. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-4440-3.
• Gaines, Virginia Holden. Growing Up with William Holden: A Memoir (Strategems, 2007) ISBN 978-0-9741304-5-3

External links

• Brenda Marshall at IMDb
• Brenda Marshall at Find a Grave
• Photographs and literature
• Image of William Holden and Brenda Marshall, Academy Awards, Los Angeles, 1951. Los Angeles TimesPhotographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

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[de] Brenda Marshall

Brenda Marshall (* 29. September 1915 in Negros, Philippinen; † 30. Juli 1992 in Palm Springs, Kalifornien), bürgerlich Ardis Ankerson Gaines, war eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin.

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- [en] Brenda Marshall

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[ru] Бренда Маршалл

Бренда Маршалл (англ. Brenda Marshall, урождённая Ардис Анкерсон (англ. Ardis Ankerson), 29 сентября 1915 (1915-09-29) — 30 июля 1992) — американская актриса.

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