Marilyn Erskine was born on April 24,1926 and 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.
13 Facts About Marilyn Erskine
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Marilyn Erskine married Hollywood producer and director Stanley Kramer in May 1945.
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Marilyn Erskine later remarried, to insurance executive Charles Curland in 1955, and had two children.
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Marilyn Erskine started her performing career at the age of three years, appearing on a local radio show in Buffalo, New York.
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Marilyn Erskine 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.
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Marilyn Erskine performed the role of Jane Baxter in Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre on the Air adaptation of Seventeen.
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In 1945, Marilyn Erskine was a member of the cast of the syndicated comedy Keeping Up with Wigglesworth.
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Marilyn Erskine appeared in several Hollywood movies in the early 1950s:.
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Marilyn Erskine played herself in an MGM documentary Challenge the Wilderness, on the production problems faced while filming Westward the Women.
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Marilyn Erskine was one of the narrators for the MGM documentary The Hoaxters, a short history of Communism.
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Marilyn Erskine was co-starred on the television series The Tom Ewell Show, playing Tom's wife, Frances Potter.
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Marilyn Erskine 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 NBC Comedy Hour June 10,1956.
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Marilyn Erskine made two guest appearances on Perry Mason starring Raymond Burr.