Marilyn Erskine

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. Personal life Erskine was born in Rochester, New York on April 24, 1926, and was in show business from early childhood. Erskine married Hollywood producer and director Stanley Kramer in May 1945. The marriage was annulled two months later. She later remarried, to insurance executive Charles Curland in 1955, and had two children. Their home in Brentwood, California was featured in an article in the Fall 1958 issue of Architectural Digest. Radio career 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.