“The dynamics of the show changed after the first season when the focus was on Dr. “I’d read a script and often had nothing to do,” she recalled. When the chance came for a regular part in the cast of “Lost in Space,” she eventually accepted, but found her role smaller than originally planned.
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“I was terribly excited but so nervous I choked on my bread and had a fit of coughing. There’s also an album cover from the movie in the Hollywood Museum exhibit.” “My mother and I had lunch with Walt Disney prior to the film,” she recalled. The 1963 Disney production, “Savage Sam,” was Marta’s first movie, but that’s not the only reason it was memorable.
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I did all the great TV shows in the 60s and whenever they wanted an ingénue, they’d call me.” James Harris, the producer, liked me and arranged representation with a top agent and that was the beginning of my career. But it’s a great adaption of the book and I personally wish I had done it. “I was very innocent so maybe I wouldn’t have been a good fit for the film. When offered her first film role as the nymphet in MGM’s provocative “Lolita,” her protective parents wouldn’t allow it, the role going to Sue Lyon. We’d go to her house for dinner and be surrounded by nuns because she was very Catholic.” “Loretta’s sister was married to Ricardo Montalbán. “I later dated Loretta Young’s nephew, Mark Montalbán, for quite a while,” she added. I wasn’t nervous at all because I think I understood that acting was just in my blood.” “I played the daughter of alcoholic parents and had a 2-page monologue where I had to speak at an AA meeting. After moving to California, she was offered her debut TV role on an episode of “The Loretta Young Show.” Her adoptive parents encouraged Marta’s interest in acting and she performed in stage productions throughout her school years. I was taken to a hospital and placed in an underground orphanage to avoid the Lebensborn program” (a Nazi project to raise ‘racially pure’ children.)Īt the age of just 4, little Marta flew alone to New York City to be adopted by an American couple from Detroit (she would later discover she had 9 siblings after locating and meeting her birth mother in Europe). She went to Norway with him and gave birth to me in her room. “My mother had been ordered to work for a German officer and she hid her pregnancy fearing she would be killed. There were a couple of famous Hollywood people who tried to take advantage of me – I’m not mentioning any names! I was around 16 and I knew it was wrong, so I stood up for myself.”īlue-eyed, blonde, and beautiful, 14-year-old Marta arrived in California via Michigan in 1959, although her journey to Hollywood began in Oslo towards the end of World War II. Unlike some child actors who fell victim to addictions or financial exploitation from parents, Kristen says she fared well in her youthful profession. Other items on display at the exhibit, which runs from August 19 through to December, include Judy Garland's Ruby Slippers from "The Wizard of Oz" and Margaret O'Brien’s Oscar from "Meet Me in St Louis." I’ll have a Judy doll, photos, and posters, including an original from the movie ‘Beach Blanket Bingo’ where I played a mermaid,” she said.
Like many of the event guests, she will be loaning personal memorabilia to the Hollywood Museum’s new exhibit, “Child Stars - Then and Now,” opening the same weekend (see ). Kristen appeared in dozens of film and TV roles since 1960 (see ) and is best known for her role of Judy Robinson on “Lost in Space.” “So it will be interesting to compare careers.” “Many of us worked in the same era and were sometimes up for the same roles,” said Kristen from her Santa Monica home. Marta Kristen is looking forward to helping the worthy cause and also visiting with old friends. The charity event will support A Minor Consideration ( ), a non-profit organization that provides assistance to today’s youngest performers. Some 50 actors and actresses who began their careers as children will appear at the Hollywood Museum on August 20 and 21 to sign autographs and pose for photos. It’s quite possibly the largest gathering of former child stars ever assembled.
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