MARLYN RULES
Drive-in Dream Girl Marlyn Mason has come of out of a 10-year retirement to star in Model Rules (2008) a short film that she also produced and wrote. In it, she plays an aging artist’s model who fantasizes about one of the men sketching her. Living in Oregon for the past decade, the movie was filmed on location.
Click here to access the Model Rules web site chock full of production stills. Warmly received, Model Rules was accepted into The Rhode Island Int’l Film Festival (Aug. 5 – 10) and the Los Angeles Int’l Short Festival (Aug. 15 – 21). If you live in any of those cities go see it!
Marlyn Mason is an extremely versatile performer and was a much sought after TV actress playing a variety of roles on all the top series including My Three Sons, Burke’s Law, Ben Casey, Dr. Kildare, Bonanza, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Gomer Pyle, USMC, Hogan’s Heroes, Mannix, Love, American Style, etc. during the Sixties and Seventies. Mason also proved to be a wonderful singer and dancer on two TV variety spectaculars with Robert Goulet (Brigadoon and Carousel) and on Broadway in How Now Dow Jones. Her musical talent was finally put to good use on the big screen when she won a lead role opposite Elvis Presley in The Trouble with Girls (1969).
Marlyn remained extremely active in the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties and is best remembered for playing a sexy older woman who seduces one of her husband’s students in the youth-oriented comedy, Making It (1971); the helpful assisant to blind detective James Franciscus in the TV series Longstreet and the neighbor who falls for Hal Holbrook unaware that he is gay in the groundbreaking TV movie That Certain Summer (1972). Her last credit prior to Model Rules was playing a grandmother in the TV movie Fifteen and Pregnant (1998).
