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She also appeared on the nationwide Columbia Broadcasting System 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
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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 New York Erskine performed the role of Jane Baxter in Orson Welles"s Mercury Theatre on the Air adaptation of Seventeen (October 16, 1938). As a teenager, she appeared in at least nine Broadway productions in New York City:
Excursion (playing Eileen Loschavio) April 9, 1937 - July ?, 1937
The Ghost of Yankee Doodle (playing Patience Garrison) November 22, 1937 - January ?, 1938
Our Town (playing Rebecca Gibbs) February 4, 1938 - November 19, 1938
The Primrose Path (playing Eva Wallace) January 4, 1939 - May ?, 1939
Goodbye in the Night (playing Gertie) March 18–23, 1940
Ring Around Elizabeth (playing Mercedes) November 17–25, 1941
What Big Ears! (playing Betty Leeds) April 20–25, 1942
Nine Girls (playing Shirley) January 13–16, 1943
Pretty Little Parlor (playing Anastasia) April 17–22, 1944
As an adult, she appeared in at least one Broadway production in New York City:
The Linden Tree (playing Dinah Linden) March 2–6, 1948
She appeared in several Hollywood movies in the early 1950s:
Westward the Women (1951) playing Jean Johnson
Above and Beyond (1952) playing Marge Bratton
The Girl in White (1952) playing Nurse Jane Doe
Just This Once (1952) playing Gertrude Crome
The Eddie Cantor Story (1953) playing Ida Tobias Cantor
A Slight Case of Larceny (1953) playing Mistress
Emily Clopp
Confidentially Connie (1953) playing Phyllis Archibald
She played herself in an Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer documentary Challenge the Wilderness (1951), on the production problems faced while filming Westward the Women.
She 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.
She was a co-star in the television series The Tom Ewell Show, playing Tom"s wife, Fran Potter. This situation comedy ran from September 1960 through May 1961 on the Columbia Broadcasting System television network.
She made two guest appearances on Perry Mason starring Raymond Burr.
In 1964 she played Susan Pelham in "The Case of the Careless Kidnapper," and in 1966 she played Mirabel Corum in "The Case of the Unwelcome Well." Her last role on television was in 1972, in the Ironside television series, also starring Burr.
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She was also one of the narrators for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer documentary The Hoaxters (1953), a short history of Communism.
