Virginia Marshall was a child motion picture actress in silent film

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 features of the 1920s.

Brief stardom

Marshall appeared in a Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

 feature entitled Stars Tomorrow? in April 1925. She was among a group of children that
included Vonda Phelps

Vonda Phelps

Vonda Phelps was a child stage actress and dancer in the 1920s. She was in a couple of silent film productions.-Child prodigy:In May 1924 Phelps participated in Good Fairy, a fantasy in two acts, at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. She performed along with almost twenty other...

 and Virginia Davis

Virginia Davis

Virginia Davis was an American movie child actor. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri.-Early career:Davis began working for Walt Disney's Kansas City company, Laugh-O-Gram Studio, in the summer of 1924. She was hired to act in a film called Alice's Wonderland, which combined live action with...

. The article questioned whether their stardom would continue or fade away with time.

Unfortunately the nine youth performers profiled remained popular with theater and film audiences for only a brief time. Marshall's motion picture
career lasted from 1924–1928. She performed in thirteen screenplays. The films include comedy shorts like Little Robinson Corkscrew (1924), the
melodrama

Melodrama

The term melodrama refers to a dramatic work that exaggerates plot and characters in order to appeal to the emotions. It may also refer to the genre which includes such works, or to language, behavior, or events which resemble them...

, East Lynne (1925), and the western, The Arizona Wildcat (1927). Marshall was given the opportunity to act with many stars of her era, such as Tom Mix

Tom Mix

Thomas Edwin "Tom" Mix was an American film actor and the star of many early Western movies. He made a reported 336 films between 1910 and 1935, all but nine of which were silent features...

, Alma Rubens

Alma Rubens

Alma Rubens was an American silent film actress and stage performer.-Early life:Born to John B. and Theresa Hayes Rueben in San Francisco, California, she performed since youth and became a star at the age of 19. She was educated at the Sacred Heart Convent in San Francisco...

, Edmund Lowe

Edmund Lowe

Edmund Dantes Lowe was an American actor. His formative experience began in vaudeville and silent film. He was born in San Jose, California.-Film career:...

, and Dorothy Revier

Dorothy Revier

Dorothy Revier was an American actress.She was educated in the public schools of Oakland before going to New York City to study classical dancing...

.