Marilyn Erskine
| Marilyn Erskine | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 24, 1926 Rochester, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1929–1972 |
| Spouse(s) |
Stanley Kramer (m. 1945–45) (annulled) Charles Curland (m. 1955) |
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.
Marilyn Erskine started her performing career at the age of three years, appearing on a local radio show in Buffalo, New York. 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. She played Gail Carver in the soap opera Lora Lawton, which ran on NBC 1943-1950, Jane Brown on Young Widder Brown, which ran on NBC 1938-1956, and Cherry Martin in The Romance of Helen Trent, which ran on CBS 1933-1960. 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.
As a teenager, she appeared in at least nine Broadway productions in New York City:
As an adult, she appeared in at least one Broadway production in New York City and several Off-Broadway plays:
Erskine appeared in several Hollywood movies in the early 1950s:
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.
Erskine 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 to Climax!, 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.
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