"This site does not focus on the life of Connie Marshall before nor beyond her film and entertainment career. That information may be found at her official website. Clearly there is an individual loving story which she left with her family. But, the Legacy left to her Fans and the Entertainment Industry is where I have vested my efforts as a Fan and Collector of Connie Marshall." _______________________________________________________________________
Date of Birth: 28 April 1933, New York, NY, USA
Date of Death: 22 May 2001, Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Birth Name: Connie Beekman Marshall
Credit: ImDb Updated Information by: Connie Marshall Society
Height: 4' 11½"
Connie Marshall was a blue-to-gray-eyed, blonde-haired child actress of the post-WWII years. A direct descent of this country's forth Chief Justice, John Marshall, and also a descendant of Geradus Beekman, the first colonial governor of New York, her father was a Lieutenant with the Allied Military Government in Europe.
Connie entered into show business at the young age of 5 as a pig-tailed model for commercial newspapers and magazines. As she was frequently used by New York photographers, artists and caricaturists, she began her acting career a year later after a failed screen test taken in Hollywood was, by luck, seen by 20th Century-Fox director Lloyd Bacon who just happened to be casting the role of little Mary Osborne in the warm family comedy-drama Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944). The film went on to star the future husband and wife team of Anne Baxter and John Hodiak, who first met and fell in love while shooting this picture.
While in her early schooling, she appeared in a few plays and also studied ballet and ballroom dancing. She made a strong impression in her very first film and continued to appear in several more movies and TV shows working side by side with many of filmdoms giants and future stars.
Connie continued to show promise in the post-war years until 1954 after appearing in an un-credited role in Rogue Cop (1954). Connie would appear in a few TV shows from 1952 until 1954. Connie left show business never to be seen again.
Her whereabouts unknown for nearly five decades, she was nearly forgotten until word of her death (on May 22, 2001) appeared in 2006, over five years after the fact. Her potential never fully utilized, she could have continued to grow as a film artist. Connie certainly deserves a place in the Hollywood annuals as one of filmdom's more talented young child stars.
