Marilyn Erskine
Marilyn Erskine | |
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Born | Rochester, New York, U.S. | April 24, 1926
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1929–1972 |
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Marilyn Erskine (born April 24, 1926) is an American actress 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.
Personal life
Erskine was born in Rochester, New York on April 24, 1926, and was in show business from early childhood.[1] Erskine married Hollywood producer and director Stanley Kramer in May 1945. The marriage was annulled two months later. She later remarried, to insurance executive Charles Curland in 1955, and had two children. Their home in Brentwood, California was featured in an article in the Fall 1958 issue of Architectural Digest.[2]
Radio career
Erskine started her performing career at the age of three years, appearing on a local radio show in Buffalo, New York.[3] 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.[3] She played Gail Carver in the soap opera Lora Lawton, which ran on NBC 1943-1950[4]: 206 , Jane Brown on Young Widder Brown, which ran on NBC 1938-1956,[4]: 361 and Cherry Martin in The Romance of Helen Trent, which ran on CBS 1933-1960.[4]: 289 Erskine performed the role of Jane Baxter in Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre on the Air adaptation of Seventeen (October 16, 1938).
In 1945, Erskine was a member of the cast of the syndicated comedy Keeping Up with Wigglesworth.[4]
Theater 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[5]
- 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 and several Off-Broadway plays:
- The Linden Tree (playing Dinah Linden) March 2–6, 1948
- Our Town (playing Emily Webb) 1953 - 1955[6]
Film career
Erskine appeared in several Hollywood movies in the early 1950s:
- Westward the Women (1951) playing Jean Johnson
- Above and Beyond (1952) playing Marge Bratton
- The Girl in White (1952) playing Nurse Jane Doe
- Just This Once (1952) playing Gertrude Crome
- The Eddie Cantor Story (1953) playing Ida Tobias Cantor
- A Slight Case of Larceny (1953) playing Mrs. Emily Clopp
- Confidentially Connie (1953) playing Phyllis Archibald
She played herself in an MGM documentary Challenge the Wilderness (1951), on the production problems faced while filming Westward the Women. She was also one of the narrators for the MGM documentary The Hoaxters (1953), a short history of Communism.
Television career
Erskine appeared in almost every anthology drama series of the
She was co-starred on the television series
She made two guest appearances on
References
- ISBN 9780786455829. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ^ Rense, Paige (editor), "Architectural Digest Fall 1958" (Vol. 15, No. 3), John C. Brasfield Publishing Corp.
- ^ ISBN 0-19-507678-8
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7864-4513-4. pg. 189.
- ^ 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
- The Chicago Tribune.
- ISBN 978-0-7864-6477-7. P. 1092.
External links
- Marilyn Erskine at IMDb
- Marilyn Erskine at the Internet Broadway Database