Marilyn Roberts
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While San Francisco-born Marilyn Roberts only has five on-screen credits, her talent goes well beyond the cameras. After studying directing and acting at San Francisco State University, and receiving a degree in Drama, the blonde-haired, thin-lipped actress made her way to New York, and became one of the original performers in the Off-Off Broadway theater movement during the 1960s. She starred in the sexual satire play Futz, originally a ground-breaking Off-Off production, which later went on to open Off-Broadway, and was eventually turned into a film, which Marilyn also starred in as Mrs. Loop—her first on-screen feature film credit in 1969. She continued to work in theatre, and also—to roller skate. Yes, the dignified and sophisticated-looking lady was actually a three-time North American roller-skating champion, and was inducted into The Roller Skating Hall of Fame (who know there was such a thing?) in 1983. But before all that, she was Claire in the movie The Image (1975). Rated X, the plot revolves around Claire and her sex slave Anne, and their interactions with Jean, a male friend. Claire is naked. Claire has sex. Claire is a naughty mistress. It’s basically porn, but produced so it comes off as more of an art film. But it doesn’t really matter what you want to call it, as long as you take Mr. Skin’s advice and watch it. Marilyn switched up the vibe that same year by appearing as the character Charlotte Gruen in an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, her one and only TV appearance. She nabbed a role as a woman in a bar in the Oscar-nominated Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) with Diane Keaton, Richard Gere, and Tuesday Weld; and for her final on-screen credit, was a waitress in the movie Skateboard (1978), written by Dick Wolf of Law & Order fame and starring Leif Garrett of feathered-hair fame. Sadly, Marilyn went to the great roller rink in the sky, passing away in January 2021 at the age of 81.