Henry, the kindly doorman at her New York apartment, greeted Gene with interesting news as she stepped from the studio's limo. 'Two large packages from Paris arrived for you today, Miss Marshall,' he said. 'I'll send them right up to...

Critics raved. "Gene Marshall has done it again. In Royal Rebel, Miss Marshall not only dances like a dream, sings like an angel, and handles comedy like a seasoned pro--she acts up a storm and makes us believe every moment. What a TALENT!" In...

In 1954, Monolithic Studios ran a costume test for a proposed film with a working title of Destiny. The film was never made, but through a quirk of fate the test became one of the 'lost reels' of Gene Marshall--and that was enough to make film...

Gene Marshall...the toast of the fashion world, a designer's delight...sat down at her mirrored vanity with an array of brushes, hairpins, bows, and curlers before her. She had a day off from her busy shooting schedule, and was enjoying the luxury of...

Paris in 1953...what an exciting time! Art, music, literature, architecture, and especially fashion are flowering with a new renaissance as France gloriously rises from the ashes of war. The restoration of Versailles has begun, a new President and...

The rumor mill was in a frenzy. Reports were flying around that Gene Marshall had consented to model a necklace in an advertisement for one of the world's most prestigious jewelry houses. Excited fans clustered around the jeweler's on the rumored...

In 1954, Monolithic Studios ran a costume test for a proposed film with a working title of Destiny. The film was never made, but through a quirk of fate the test became one of the 'lost reels' of Gene Marshall--and that was enough to make film...

1957 marked the year of one of Gene's most beloved comedies: "Personal Secretary." Filmed in wide-screen and in glorious MonolithiColor, audiences returned again and again to see Gene as the secretary who dreams, schemes and finally lands...

Gene Marshall...the toast of the fashion world, a designer's delight...sat down at her mirrored vanity with an array of brushes, hairpins, bows, and curlers before her. She had a day off from her busy shooting schedule, and was enjoying the luxury of...

Two snow-white horses drew the elegant carriage up to the marble steps of London's Covent Garden Opera House as the crowd of onlookers craned their necks to see who was arriving in such vintage splendor. The coachman opened the door and Gene Marshall...

Journalists loved to interview Miss Gene Marshall. Unlike so many world-renowned Hollywood stars, she was charming, unpretentious, and refreshingly modest about her meteoric rise to fame. Her highly intelligent conversation was peppered with wit and...

Gene smoothly shifted the white Ferrari 375 MM convertible into third gear as soon as the romantic city streets of Rome melded into groves of dusky green olive trees and lush rows of grapevines heavy with rich purple fruit. Her terriers, Dottie and...

Film fans of Gene Marshall: get ready for this! It's Red Venus, her first "bad girl" role, and furthermore, her first screen appearance as a ravishing redhead. She plays a gangster's moll with a story to hide...but her on-screen gowns...

One benefit of being a leading Hollywood actress is being able to choose the parts you want to play...and finding characters that bring out aspects of your personality that may not be so obvious to your fans. So it is that Gene looked forward to her...

It was one of those glorious California evenings that shimmered with magical electricity. The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel was ablaze with lights from dazzling crystal chandeliers, spotlights, flashbulbs, and the incandescent star-power of Hollywood's...

Journalists loved to interview Miss Gene Marshall. Unlike so many world-renowned Hollywood stars, she was charming, unpretentious, and refreshingly modest about her meteoric rise to fame. Her highly intelligent conversation was peppered with wit and...

Surely magic was in the air during the making of Voodoo Blues, one of the most beloved film classics of the 1940s. The sound stages of Monolithic Studios were transformed into the sultry, sensuous city of New Orleans. Gene was never so bewitching than...

New York City has always held a soft, sentimental spot in its worldly heart for Gene Marshall. After all, she was 'discovered' there working in a movie theater (which all the local point to with pride). Plus, her family is from Cos Cobb,...

In 1954, Monolithic Studios ran a costume test for a proposed film with a working title of Destiny. The film was never made, but through a quirk of fate the test became one of the 'lost reels' of Gene Marshall--and that was enough to make film...

The producer, Erik von Sternberg, inspected his newest starlet through a monocled eye. 'You climbed onto this train, clutching your daddy and your teddy bear, a little girl--a nobody! But when you step off this train in Hollywood, Miss Marshall,...