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Now: Marjorie, attractive, brunette and a housewife as well as a television star. sing, especially on her radio appear¬ ances, and the press agent who went with her to this day holds the world’s record for dreaming up excuses for a singer not being able to sing. Always on the prowl for something new and different, she made her first TV appearance back in 1947 on an ex¬ perimental Los Angeles station which is today KTLA. “There were about 300 sets in town,” Marjorie recalls, “and the viewers used to call up the station and tell them how the picture was coming in —when it was coming in—which wasn’t too often.” The Riley filmed series she con¬ siders a romp. “Steady work, steady pay, and what a wonderful crew to work with. I’ve done just about every¬ thing in films, from Westerns to no¬ voice musicals, and now with the Riley show, I’m back in the kitchen. Where every wife belongs.” Marjorie isn’t kidding about the kitchen. Married just last spring to John Haffen, a film cutter, she leads what she calls a “suffocatingly dull life as a Beverly Hills matron, with¬ out pool.” With six-and-a-half-year- old Linda, Marjorie’s daughter by a previous marriage, they occupy two- apartments-in-one in an apartment building Marjorie bought some years ago. “Serves as both an investment and a hat rack,” she says brightly. When the Riley series is in produc¬ tion, Marjorie splurges on a house¬ keeper to keep an eye on Linda when she comes home from school, but Mar¬ jorie herself makes a point of getting home in time to get the dinner. When Riley is out of production, the house¬ keeper is out of a job. Quite satisfied with her position on the Hollywood ladder, whose dizzier heights she’s never particularly cared about scaling, Marjorie fully intends to keep on acting until either she or the industry drops dead. “‘Grow old along with me, ’ ” she mutters cheer¬ fully, “ ‘the best is yet to be.’ Look at Ethel Barrymore.” 17