I hope fans of the old show won’t be disappointed. “I might be interested in a part of some sort, but not necessarily as Judy Robinson. “It sounds interesting and they’re making 10 episodes for the first season,” Kristen says. So good, Netflix announced this summer its plans to reboot the series about the space-pioneering Robinson family for a 2018 online release. But it was still a fun show and the premise of a family lost in space was a good one.” Smith, Will and the Robot and it went from being science fiction adventure to fantasy with silly plots. “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 recalls. When the chance came for a regular role in the cast of “Lost in Space,” she eventually accepted, but found her role was smaller than originally planned. I did many of the great TV shows in the ’60s, and whenever they wanted an ingenue, they’d call me.” 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 4, Marta was adopted by an American couple from Detroit – she would later locate and meet her birth mother, and discovered she had nine siblings. 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. Unlike some child actors who fell victim to addictions or financial exploitation from parents, Kristen fared well in her youthful profession.īlue-eyed, blonde and beautiful, 14-year-old Marta arrived in California via Detroit in 1959, although her journey to Hollywood began in Oslo toward the end of World War II. Like many of the Hollywood Museum guests, she also lent personal memorabilia to the museum’s new exhibit, “Child Stars – Then and Now,” opening on this weekend. Kristen appeared in dozens of film and TV roles since 1960, but is best known for her role as Judy Robinson on Irwin Allen’s 1965-68 TV series “Lost in Space.” An iconic program to the baby boom generation, Netflix plans a “Lost in Space” reboot for 2018. “So it will be interesting to compare careers.” “Many of us worked in the same era and were sometimes up for the same roles,” Kristen says from her Santa Monica home. Marta Kristen, who lived in Detroit as a child, is one of the actors helping a worthy cause and visiting with old friends. The charity event will support A Minor Consideration, a nonprofit organization that provides assistance to today’s youngest performers. Some 50 actors and actresses who began their careers as children are appearing at the Hollywood Museum this weekend, where they will sign autographs and pose for photos. It’s quite possibly the largest gathering of former child stars ever assembled.
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