![]() “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. 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 two-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 nine 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. Kristen appeared in dozens of film and TV roles since 1960 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 home. Long-time Santa Monica resident 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. More than a month ahead of the official release on the big screens, Phobia will be screened during a special preview open to the public which will be held at 8.00 pm on Thursday 7 September 2023 at the multiplex UCI Cinemas – Porta di Roma and in which the director and cast will take part.It’s quite possibly the largest gathering of former child stars ever assembled. Produced by Eleventwo3 and distributed by Flat Parioli, Phobia will arrive in theaters on October 12, 2023. They join her within the rich cast Federica de Benedettis ( Forever young), Eugenio Papalia ( Who saw me), Beatrice Schiaffino ( Do Ut Des), Francesca Romana De Martini ( Vallanzasca – The angels of evil) And Federico Tocci ( Suburra – The series), with the participation of Antonio Catania ( Mediterranean). In a game that confuses what’s real and what’s not, who is hiding a terrible truth?įor the first time, therefore, the young actress with millions of followers on social media tries her hand at a role in the thriller genre, amidst suspense and twists destined to lead to an unexpected final revelation. For Chiara (De Nucci) the time has come to face everything she was running away from. A family dinner, a dark secret, a past that chases her.
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