Marilyn Erskine

Marilyn Erskine
Marilyn Erskine
Born April 24, 1926(1926-04-24)
Rochester, New York, U.S.
Occupation Actor
Years active 1929–1972
Spouse Stanley Kramer (m. 1945–1945) «start: (1945)–end+1: (1946)»"Marriage: Stanley Kramer to Marilyn Erskine" Location: (linkback://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Erskine) (annulled)
Charles Curland (m. 1955–present) «start: (1955)»"Marriage: Charles Curland to Marilyn Erskine" Location: (linkback://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Erskine)

Marilyn Erskine is an American actor who started performing at the age of three on radio, and has since appeared in radio, theater, film and television roles from the 1920s through the 1970s.

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Radio career

She started her performing career at the age of three years, appearing on a local radio show in Buffalo, New York.[1]

She also appeared on the nationwide CBS radio show Let's Pretend sometime between 1929 and 1937, where children played all the roles in adaptions of fairy tales and other children's stories.[1]

Theatre career

As a teenager, she appeared in at least nine Broadway productions in New York City:

  • Excursion (playing Eileen Loschavio) April 9, 1937 - July ?, 1937
  • The Ghost of Yankee Doodle (playing Patience Garrison) November 22, 1937 - January ?, 1938
  • Our Town (playing Rebecca Gibbs) February 4, 1938 - November 19, 1938
  • The Primrose Path (playing Eva Wallace) January 4, 1939 - May ?, 1939
  • Goodbye in the Night (playing Gertie) March 18–23, 1940
  • Ring Around Elizabeth (playing Mercedes) November 17–25, 1941
  • What Big Ears! (playing Betty Leeds) April 20–25, 1942[2]
  • Nine Girls (playing Shirley) January 13–16, 1943
  • Pretty Little Parlor (playing Anastasia) April 17–22, 1944

As an adult, she appeared in at least one Broadway production in New York City:

  • The Linden Tree (playing Dinah Linden) March 2–6, 1948

Film career

She appeared in several Hollywood movies in the early 1950s:

She played herself in a 1951 MGM documentary Challenge the Wilderness, on the production problems faced while filming Westward the Women. She was also one of the narrators for the 1953 documentary The Hoaxters, a short history of Communism.

Television career

She appeared in almost every anthology drama series of the Golden Age of Television, from General Electric Theater to Westinghouse Studio One to Science Fiction Theater to Lux Video Theater, appearing in over fifty different productions on thirty different series from 1949 to 1962. In her later career, after 1962, she primarily played roles on westerns and crime dramas.

She was a co-star in the television series The Tom Ewell Show, playing Tom's wife, Fran Potter. This situation comedy ran from September 1960 through May 1961 on the CBS television network.

She was a co-presenter for the Short Subject Awards category of the 26th Annual Academy Awards in 1954, and appeared as herself in the last episode of the The NBC Comedy Hour June 10, 1956.

Her last role on television was in 1972, in the Ironside TV series.

Personal life

She married Hollywood producer/director Stanley Kramer in May 1945. The marriage was annulled two months later.

She married insurance executive Charles Curland in 1955, and had two children. Their home in Brentwood, California, was featured in an article in the 1958 ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Dunning, John (1998) "On the Air: the Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio" Oxford University Press, pages 391-393, ISBN 0195076788
  2. ^ Burr, Eugene (reviewer) "New Play on Broadway" Billboard (May 2, 1942) (Vol. 54, No. 18 ISSN 0006-2510, published by Nielsen Business Media, Inc) page 10
  3. ^ Rense, Paige (editor), "Architectural Digest Fall 1958" (Vol. 15, No. 3), John C. Brasfield Publishing Corp.

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