Marilyn Erskine

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Marilyn Erskine (* 24. April 1926 in Rochester , New York ) is an American actress , who appeared at the age of three years on the radio and subsequently both in theater and in cinema and television perceived roles.

Life

Erskine's career began when she was three years old performing on a local radio show in Buffalo . Between 1929 and 1937 she appeared on the nationwide CBS radio show Let's Pretend sometine , in which children embodied various roles in adapted fairy tales and other stories for children. In 1938 she was given the role of Jane Baxter in Seventeen in a radio series created by Orson Welles with live radio plays, which ran under the title The Mercury Theater on the Air . The play is based on Booth Tarkington's novel Seventeen , which was a bestseller in the United States .

She had her first appearance on television in 1949 as Lillybelle in the episode The Murderer within the series Suspence . She made her film debut in 1951 in the western drama Caravan of Women . MGM created a feature about the film called Challenge the Wilderness , in which the stars and locations of the film were introduced, and the challenges faced by the film crew were shown. In 1952, Erskine starred alongside Janet Leigh and Peter Lawford in the comedy A Trap for Playboy based on a screenplay by Sidney Sheldon . In the same year, the biographical film drama The Final Decision was released , which tells the story of the man who was the pilot of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima . In the 1953 documentary The Hoaxters , a brief outline of communism , she acted as a spokeswoman. In The Eddie Cantor Story (1953), also a biographical drama, Erskine played the lead role alongside Keefe Brasselle . The actress had her last appearance in 1972 in an episode of the television series The Boss .

At the 26th Annual Academy Awards in 1954, Marilyn Erskine was among the presenters. Together with Keefe Brasselle , she presented the Oscars for “Best Animated Short Film” (cartoon) and “Best Short Film” (2 film roles) to Walt Disney and for “Best Short Film” (1 film role) to Johnny Green .

Private

In May 1945 the actress married the director Stanley Kramer . Two months later the marriage was annulled. In 1955, Erskine married insurance manager Charles Curland. The marriage had two children. In 1958 an article in the fall issue of Architectural Digest magazine was dedicated to her residence in Brentwood , California .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1949: Suspense (TV series, episode The Murderer )
  • 1951: Challenge the Wilderness (documentary)
  • 1951: Westward the Women ( Westward the Women )
  • 1952: A Trap for Playboy ( Just This Once )
  • 1952: The Girl in White
  • 1952: The Final Decision ( Above and Beyond )
  • 1953: Confidentially Connie
  • 1953: The Eddie Cantor Story
  • 1953–1957: Lux Video Theater (TV series, 9 episodes)
  • 1954–1955: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1955–1956: Science Fiction Theater (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1955–1957: The Ford Television Theater (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1955–1958: Climax! (TV series, 5 episodes)
  • 1956: TV Reader's Digest (TV series 2 episodes)
  • 1960–1961: The Tom Ewell Show (TV series, 30 episodes)
  • 1964–1966: Perry Mason (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1965: The People of Shiloh Ranch (The Virginian; TV series, episode Shadows of the Past )
  • 1967: Laredo (TV series, episode Hey Diddle Diddle )
  • 1972: The Boss (TV series, episode Death by the Numbers )

theatre

(nine Broadway productions as teenagers, one as adults)

  • 1937: Excursion ... as Eileen Loschavio
  • 1938: The Ghost of Yankee Doodle… as Patience Garrison
  • 1938: Our Little Town ( Thornton Wilder ) ... as Rebecca Gibbs
  • 1939: The Primrose Pad ... as Eva Wallace
  • 1940: Goodbye in the Night ... as Gertie
  • 1941: Ring Around Elizabeth ... as Mercedes
  • 1942: What Big Ears! ... as Betty Leeds
  • 1943: Nine Girls ... as Shirley
  • 1944: Pretty Little Parlor ... as Anastasia
  • 1948: The Linden Tree… as Dinah Linden

Web links

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  1. ↑ a b Marilyn Erskine biography at IMDb. Retrieved February 8, 2014.
  2. ↑ Marilyn Erskine at whosdatedwho.com (English) Retrieved February 8, 2014.
  3. ↑ Paige Rense: Architectural Digest Fall 1958 (Vol. 15, No. 3) - John C. Brasfield Publishing Corp.
  4. ↑ Marilyn Erskine in the Internet Broadway Database . Retrieved February 8, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Erskine, Marilyn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochester , New York , United States