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"I used to always
watch the old
black-and-white
movies on
television, from
the corny ones
with Rock Hudson
and Doris Day to
the epics."
n Itch For
Acting
Marjorie Gluckman enjoys the smell of the greasepaint and the roar of the crowd.
T
Whether she's in
the clasroom or the
theater, Marjorie
Marks Gluckman
is always taking
center stage.
STEVEN M. HARTZ
Special to The Jewish News
arjorie
Marks
Gluckman uttered her
first words, "Mama,
da da, hi, ha and uh
oh" when she was six
months old — and she hasn't
stopped talking since.
"My teachers at Einstein
Elementary in Oak Park
used to call me "Marjorie the
Mouth" because I'd never
shut up," she said. "I would
Glenn Triest
kind of run the room, or-
chestrating different pranks,
when I was in third and
fourth grade."
Twenty years later,
Gluckman still runs the
classroom — not as a stu-
dent, but as a teacher at
Roosevelt Middle School in
Oak Park. But when the
2:30 p.m. bell rings,
Gluckman forgets about
reading, writing and
arithmetic, and concentrates
on acting, emoting, and in-
terpreting.
see reality in your living
room. Even when it was a
fantasy, the way the stories
were- portrayed was so real
to me. I was astounded by
that."
Gluckman also credits her
parents, Ben, the former
mayor of Farmington Hills,
and Shirley Marks, as in-
spirations because they fre-
quently took her to the
theater.
However, it wasn't until
her sophomore year at Har-
rison High School that
Gluckman turned off her TV
set, vacated her theater seat
and entered the world of ac-
ting, playing a spinster in
Portrait of Jenny and Nancy
in Play it Again, Sam. Before
she graduated from Har-
rison in 1975; she also left
her mark as a one-act direc-
tor and a member of the
school's choir and forensics
team.
In September 1975, Gluck-
man temporarily replaced her
acting masks with college
books.
After she received a
teaching degree from Wayne
State University in 1980,
she grew restless and want-
ed to relieve her acting itch.
In 1983, Gluckman
became a founding member
of The Woods Players in
Huntington Woods.
"We started out bare bones
in the basement of the city's
recreation center," she said.
In her four years with The
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"I love kids, and I really
believe in them a lot,"
Gluckman said. "I absolute-
ly enjoy teaching 'about as
much as I do acting. The two
are very related because, as
a teacher, you're always on
stage, and you've got to win
students over every day, just
like winning over an au-
dience who comes to pay to
see you as an actress," she
said.
At the age of 5, Gluckman
dreamed of becoming an ac-
tress.
"I used to always watch
the old black-and-white
movies on television, from
the corny ones with Rock
Hudson and Doris Day to the
epics," she said. "I thought
it was amazing that you
could turn on this box and