Marilyn Erskine

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Biography

Mailyn Erskine is an American actress who appeared in numerous radio, theater, film and television roles from the 1920s through the 1970s.

Marilyn was born 24 Apr 1926, in Rochester, New York.^[1] She was the daughter of Robert and Harriette Erskine. In 1930, she was a four-year-old girl residing with her parents in Jamestown, Chautauqua County, New York. Her father was then working as a "credit store manager."^[2] The family was still living in Jamestown in 1940, when Marilyn was a thirteen-year-old school girl. That year, her father was listed as a department store collections manager.^[3]

Marilyn began 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 where children played all the roles in adaptions of fairy tales and other children's stories. As a teenager she appeared in at least nine Broadway productions in New York City. She then returned to radio playing Gail Carver in the soap opera Lora Lawton, Jane Brown on Young Widder Brown, and Cherry Martin in The Romance of Helen Trent, which ran on CBS 1933-1960. In 1945, Erskine was a member of the cast of the syndicated comedy Keeping Up with Wigglesworth.

Between 1951 and 1953 she appeared in seven different films, before turning her attention to television. Throughout the 1950s, Marilyn appeared in over fifty different productions on thirty different anthology series, including General Electric Theater, Westinghouse Studio One, Science Fiction Theater, and Lux Video Theater. She also co-starred on the television series The Tom Ewell Show, playing Tom's wife, Frances Potter (1960-1961). Her last television role was in a 1972 episode of Ironside.

Marilyn Erskine married Hollywood producer/director Stanley Kramer in May 1945, in Manhattan, New York, but the marriage was annulled just two months later.^[4]

On 11 Apr 1955, she married insurance executive Charles Curland (1925-2012), at the Beverly Hills home of his parents.^[5] They had had two children, Lisa and Richard.

Sources

1. ↑ New York State Birth Index, 1881-1942, Ancestry.com (database online with images) certificate 328457, Rochester, Marilyn Eskin (1926).
2. ↑ 1930 U.S. Federal Census (database online with images) New York, Chautauqua County, City of Jamestown, ED 57, page 13A, dwelling 225, family 391, household of Robert Erskine [image 25].
3. ↑ 1940 U.S. Federal Census (database online with images) New York, Chautauqua County, City of Jamestown, ED 31-1391, page 5A, visitation #153, household of Robert Erskine [image 9].
4. ↑ New York, New York Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018, Ancestry.com (database online with images) License #22848, Manhattan, Stanley E. Kramer to Marilyn B. Erskine (1945).
5. ↑ California Marriage Index, 1949-1959, Ancestry.com (database online with images) Los Angeles County, Charles W. Curland to Marilyn B. Erskins (1955).

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Erskine