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Biography of Brenda Marshall - Actress
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Brenda Marshall (September 29, 1915 – July 30, 1992) was an United States|American cinema actor|actress. Born Ardis Ankerson Gaines on the Island of Negros, in the Philippines, Marshall made her first film appearance in the 1939 Espionage Agent. The following year she played the leading lady to Errol Flynn in The Sea Hawk but after a few well received parts, she married the actor William Holden and her own career quickly declined. The Constant Nymph (1943) was another popular success but she virtually retired after this, appearing in only four more films. Marshall and Holden were divorced in 1971, and Marshall died from throat cancer in Palm Springs, California.

