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Marie Currie | |
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| Years active | 1977–present |
Marie Currie is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and artist. Currie is best known for playing in a band with her twin Cherie Currie, called Cherie & Marie Currie. Their song "Since You Been Gone" charted at number 95 on the US charts. Marie played Singing Maid Marie in The Rosebud Beach Hotel and is now a multi-media sculptor and artist.
Currie was born to Don Currie and actress Marie Harmon. [1] She was raised in Encino with three siblings. Her brother is Don Currie Jr. She has an elder sister, actress Sondra Currie, and a twin sister, Cherie Currie. Marie was the first twin born. [2]
Currie and her twin sister were given roles on an episode of My Three Sons at the age of two.[ citation needed ] They were supposed to sing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" with Fred MacMurray, but froze during filming, and their part was cut from the show. [3] Before Currie and her sister rose to fame, they appeared on American Bandstand as background dancers. [4]
While her sister Cherie was in the Runaways, Currie worked at a fast-food restaurant. She started the Marie Currie Band, [5] but they never released a record. They were featured in magazine articles across the U.S. and Japan. She started her career as a singer by singing a duet with Cherie called "Love at First Sight". [6] The song appeared on Cherie's debut album Beauty's Only Skin Deep .[ citation needed ]
In 1979, Cherie and Marie released two singles, "Messin' with the Boys" and "Since You Been Gone". The latter reached number 95 on U.S. charts. [7] In 1980, Cherie and Marie released their album, Messin' with the Boys , [8] and the album received more radio play than Beauty's Only Skin Deep. They released another single that year titled "This Time".[ citation needed ]
Cherie and Marie performed on television shows in the 1980s, including Sha Na Na , The Mike Douglas Show , and The Merv Griffin Show [9] In 1984, they played the singing maids in The Rosebud Beach Hotel. The twins sang, wrote, and produced songs for the film and its soundtrack, That film was Marie's acting debut. [10] In 1991, they performed at a tribute concert to Paula Pierce, a member of the Pandoras. For the final performance, the remaining Pandoras backed the Curries. [11]
Currie performed with her sister's band, the Runaways, at a reunion that included Jackie Fox and Sandy West. [12] In 1997, she worked as a mortgage banker, along with her brother Don. [13] She later became a sales and branch development manager for a lending company founded by her brother.[ citation needed ]
In 1997, Cherie and Marie re-released Messin' with the Boys with seven bonus tracks, [8] In 1998, they held a concert at the Golden Apple in support of the re-release, Cherie's ex-bandmate West joined Cherie on stage to perform some of the Runaways songs. [14] In 1998, Cherie and Marie released a compilation called Young and Wild, [15] In 1999, Rocket City Records released Cherie's album The 80's Collection. The album features guest work done by Marie. [16] [17]
On January 30, 2014, her novel The Narrow Road of Light was published. [18] [19] [20]
Currie dated Toto guitarist Steve Lukather in the late 70s, and they got married on November 7, 1981. They had two children, Tina (born May 13, 1985) [21] and Trevor (born May 4, 1987). [22] Currie and Lukather divorced in the early 1990s.
In 2014, they appeared on the cover of Steel Notes Magazine (alongside singer Debbie Harry, and model Josi Kat) with a lengthy feature story on her life and work featured in the issue. [23]
On the cover of the Runaways "Neon Angels on the Roads to Ruin" single Currie's twin is wearing a shirt with Marie's name on it. [24]
Currie's then husband, Steve Lukather, wrote and dedicated Toto's songs, "I Won't Hold You Back" and "I'll Be Over You" to her.[ citation needed ]
Harmony Korine has stated that the characters Dot and Helen Darby (played by Chloë Sevigny and Carisa Glucksman) in his 1997 film Gummo "were based off[ sic ] a combination of Cherie and Marie Currie, home schooling, and the Shaggs." [25]
In 2018, a photo of Marie Currie appeared in Bad Reputation , a documentary about the career of Cherie's ex-bandmate, Joan Jett. In the documentary, Kim Fowley tells the story of how he would not allow them both to join the Runaways because he did not want a set of identical twins being backed by an all-girl rock band. Therefore, only Cherie joined. [26]
Currie was portrayed by Riley Keough (granddaughter of Elvis Presley) in the film The Runaways , about the band of the same name. [27]
| Year | Single | US | Album | Artist | Ref |
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| 1978 | "Love at First Sight" | — | Beauty's Only Skin Deep | Cherie and Marie Currie | |
| 1979 | "Since You Been Gone" | 95 | Messin' with the Boys | Cherie and Marie Currie | [7] |
| 1979 | "Messin' with the Boys" | — | Messin' with the Boys | Cherie and Marie Currie | |
| 1980 | "This Time" | — | Messin' with the Boys | Cherie and Marie Currie | |
| 1980 | "Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)" | — | Messin' with the Boys | Cherie and Marie Currie |
| Year | Album | US | Artist | Ref |
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| 1978 | Beauty's Only Skin Deep | — | Cherie Currie | |
| 1980 | Messin' with the Boys | — | Cherie and Marie Currie | |
| 1997 | Messin' with the Boys (Re-released) | — | Cherie and Marie Currie | |
| 1999 | The 80's Collection | — | Cherie Currie Cherie and Marie Currie |
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 1974-1975 | American Bandstand | Background Dancer, Herself | |
| 1984 | The Rosebud Beach Hotel | Singing Maid Marie | Her twin Cherie played Singing Maid Cherie. |
| 1991 | Eureka Water | herself | commercial |
| Year | Book | L.A. Weekly |
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| 2014 | The Narrow Road of Light | — |
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