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 1943-1950:206,
Jane Brown on Young Widder Brown, which ran on NBC 1938-1956,:361 and
Cherry Martin in The Romance of Helen Trent, which ran on CBS
1933-1960.: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.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.
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 1943-1950:206,
Jane Brown on Young Widder Brown, which ran on NBC 1938-1956,:361 and
Cherry Martin in The Romance of Helen Trent, which ran on CBS
1933-1960.: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.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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