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She had just finished an episode of The Greatest Show on Earth and was filming the role of Lorelei the mermaid in Beach Blanket Bingo when she was called in to meet with Irwin Allen.

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During the next eighteen months, Marta co-starred in two Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes (including one directed by Hitchcock himself), two segments of the My Three Sons series with Fred MacMurray (a third one would follow in 1964), a Leave it to Beaver episode and an appearance on the Shirley Temple show. He made arrangements for Mata to acquire an agent, who immediately got her a feature role in The Loretta Young Show. Jimmy Harris can still take credit with starting Marta's career. Starring James Mason and Shelly Winters, the title role went to Sue Lyon instead. Lolita was made with Jimmy Harris as Producer.

'My mother thought the role was not for me, so I withdrew,' she says. After checking Harris' background, she read for the part. Harris approached her and asked if she would like to try out for Lolita. Marta was 'discovered' while eating a hamburger with a boyfriend at a drive-in restaurant in Santa Monica.

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Marta enrolled at Santa Monica High School and remained in California when her parents returned to Detroit the next year, finishing her high school education at Hollywood Professional School at 16. In 1959, Professor Soderquist took his family to California on sabbatical. She later took a course in drama at the Detroit Civic Theatre. Marta was accepted and cast in Taming of the Shrew and Little Women at Will-O-Way in summer stock when she was fourteen. A piano-playing colleague of her father's, Professor Henry Herman, recommended Marta to the famous Will-O-Way Theatre in Birmingham, Michigan on the strength of her singing and dancing to ballads he played on frequent visits to the Soderquist home. She entered Farmington Elementary School, and as a ten year-old fourth grader starred in an original comedy which she and two other ten year-olds had written. Marta quickly adjusted to the language and customs of the United States. She was named Marta in honor of Marta Bentzen, the Oslo social worker who assisted the Soderquists with the voluminous red tape attached to an international adoption. After four years, in 1948, she was adopted by Professor and Mrs. Marta also has an adopted brother whom her foster parents adopted later.Birgit Annalisa Rusanen was born in Oslo, Norway, on February 26 and left in an orphanage when she was two weeks old. Her foster father was a professor of education at Wayne University, Detroit. She spent her first years in an orphanage in Norway, and then was adopted in 1949 by an American couple from Detroit, Michigan, Harold Oliver Soderquist, and Bertha and renamed her Martha Annalise Soderquist. Kristen was born Birgit Annalisa Rusanen in Oslo, Norway, to a Finnish mother and a German soldier father who was killed during World War II.

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Her mature role allowed adult form-fitting fashions and hairstyles, as shown in publicity photos of the TV series. Marta played the part of the space family's eldest child, a mature '20-something woman' near the age group of the space pilot, played by Mark Goddard. Kristen is best known for her role as Judy Robinson, one of Professor John and Maureen Robinson's daughters, in the television series Lost in Space (1965–1968).

Marta Kristen (born February 26, 1945) is a Norwegian-born American actress.

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