Brenda Marshall (1915 - 1992) بريندا مارشال

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A Filipino actress, born on the island of Negros, Philippines, as Ardis Ankerson. She married twice and had three children. Brenda Marshall's most important works include Captains of the Clouds (1942), The Constant Nymph (1943), Strange Impersonation (1946), and The Sea Hawk...Read more (1940). She and her older sister attended elementary school and then Brent High School, and she was sent with her sister to Texas in the early 1930s to complete her high school studies. She joined Texas State College for Girls in 1934 and studied ballet. She married Richard Janes and gave birth to her first child, Virginia. She made her movie debut in Blackwell’s Island (1939) after changing her name to Brenda Marshall. After her separation in 1940 from her first husband, she married the star William Holden in 1941, and her career began to wane despite her remarkable brilliance opposite the star James Cagney in the movie Captains of the Clouds (1942). She later achieved great success in the movie The Constant Nymph (1943), but after that, she devoted herself to her home and children. Her last movie was The Iroquois Trail (1950), and after five years, she participated in an episode in the television series I Love Lucy (1955). She died in Palm Springs, California, USA, on July 30, 1992, from throat cancer.


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  • A Filipino actress, born on the island of Negros, Philippines, as Ardis Ankerson. She married twice and had three children. Brenda Marshall's most important works include Captains...Read more of the Clouds (1942), The Constant Nymph (1943), Strange Impersonation (1946), and The Sea Hawk (1940). She and her older sister attended elementary school and then Brent High School, and she was sent with her sister to Texas in the early 1930s to complete her high school studies. She joined Texas State College for Girls in 1934 and studied ballet. She married Richard Janes and gave birth to her first child, Virginia. She made her movie debut in Blackwell’s Island (1939) after changing her name to Brenda Marshall. After her separation in 1940 from her first husband, she married the star William Holden in 1941, and her career began to wane despite her remarkable brilliance opposite the star James Cagney in the movie Captains of the Clouds (1942). She later achieved great success in the movie The Constant Nymph (1943), but after that, she devoted herself to her home and children. Her last movie was The Iroquois Trail (1950), and after five years, she participated in an episode in the television series I Love Lucy (1955). She died in Palm Springs, California, USA, on July 30, 1992, from throat cancer.

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  • Birth Name:
  • Ardis Ankerson


  • Birth Country:
  • Philippines

  • Birth City:
  • Negros Occidental


  • Death Country:
  • US

  • Death City:
  • California



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