Marilyn Patterson - Revision history

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(19**-) Actress. ** She starred in [[Taubie Kushlick]]’s ''[[Pick-Up Girl]]'' in 1952 in Johannesburg. It was an American play which caused much controversy due to its outspoken and disturbing look at prostitution. She played the minor prostitute and [[Colin Stamp]] the leading male.

== Sources ==
Tucker, 1997

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-==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
+'''Marilyn Patterson''' (b. 1935) was an actress.
-She played the minor prostitute and [[Colin Stamp]] the leading male.
+== Biography ==
-She also had a role in ''[[Affairs of State]]'' in 1959.
+Marilyn Patterson was born in Montreal, Canada to Howard and Margaret Patterson on 22 November 1935 and came to South Africa with her parents in 1938, where her American-born father worked for the Coca-Cola Company.  She went to school in Johannesburg and in June 1954 left for the United States to study literature at St. Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.  However, before that she had already started her stage career when [[Taubie Kushlick]] cast her as a 15-year-old who is put on trial for sleeping with a much older man in the controversial play ''[[Pick-up Girl]]'' (1952), with [[Colin Stamp]] as the judge.
 == Sources ==
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 [[Percy Tucker]]. 1997. ''Just the Ticket. My 50 Years in Show Business''. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press.
 ''Affairs of State'' theatre programme, 1959.
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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	[[Marilyn Patterson]] (19**-) is a South African actress.		[[Marilyn Patterson]] (19**-) is a South African actress.

		+	==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
	She starred in [[Taubie Kushlick]]’s ''[[Pick-Up Girl]]'' in 1952 in Johannesburg. It was an American play which caused much controversy due to its outspoken and disturbing look at prostitution.		She starred in [[Taubie Kushlick]]’s ''[[Pick-Up Girl]]'' in 1952 in Johannesburg. It was an American play which caused much controversy due to its outspoken and disturbing look at prostitution.

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 She played the minor prostitute and [[Colin Stamp]] the leading male.
 == Sources ==
 [[Percy Tucker]]. 1997. ''Just the Ticket. My 50 Years in Show Business''. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press.
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]