Big Band

Wartime Romance

TV Drama,
Hidden Camera
and
Wartime Romance

Marilyn’s first gig was at age 5 in Wichita, Kansas. Her kindergarten teacher asked her to sing for the class to make up for failing the “chicken hatchery” field trip. She got hives when touching the young chicks and was sent home. In her Riverside, California elementary school she produced “The Beatles” recess review and a production of Peter and the Wolf casting herself in the role of the duck. During this time she wrote and illustrated her first children’s book, “Freddie the Firefly”. In Jr. High she played the leading role in the Musical Theater productions all years running. As Communications Director on the Student Council she ran the morning radio broadcast, “Thought for the Day”. In High school and at Citrus Jr. College she studied voice, Musical Theater, and film. As a member of the “Madrigals” she studied voice at the Vienna Symposium in Austria and toured Europe giving concerts in the classic cathedrals. She missed a class by getting lost somewhere in the Viennese gardens. At UC Santa Barbara, she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Studies. (The classes in persuasion and conflict resolution would later help her with the mob while singing in Las Vegas.) She was first hired by Disney Studios and worked days to pay the rent on a garage apartment where she blew the kitchen up lighting a gas stove. At night she acted in productions as a member of the Burbank Players Theater. It was there she began her professional performance career.

Marilyn's
Voiceover
Demo