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Caroline Burke
Caroline Burke
	Burke in her 1933 college yearbook photo
Born	Caroline Flora Berg; July 7, 1913; Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Died	December 5, 1964 (aged 51); New York City, U.S.
Resting place	Beth Israel Cemetery Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Other names	Caroline Swann
Alma mater	Bryn Mawr College (AB)
Occupation(s)	Actress, theater and television producer, art collector
Years active	1942–1964
Spouses	; Cyrus Max Adler (m. 1945) Erwin Swann (unknown; her death 1964);

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Caroline Flora Burke (née Berg; July 7, 1913 – December 5, 1964)^[1] was an American actress, theater producer, television producer, writer, and art collector. She appeared in several films in the early 1940s before becoming a theater producer in New York City, notably producing several stage productions of Harold Pinter plays and Broadway productions. She also worked as a producer for NBC in the 1950s, and at the time was the company's only female producer.^[2]

The daughter of a prominent Portland, Oregon businessman, Burke studied art history at Bryn Mawr College before embarking on a short-lived career as an actress. Her first role was a starring part in The Mysterious Rider (1942), which she followed with three minor film appearances before retiring from film acting. In the 1950s, she transitioned into executive and production work for NBC, as well as theatre producing for various Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. In addition to her career in entertainment, Burke also taught television production at Columbia University, and was the founder of the art history department at Reed College. She died of undisclosed causes in 1964 while in the midst of producing a second Harold Pinter stage production, which opened the week following her death.

Burke and her husband, business executive Erwin Swann, owned a significant art collection of modernist paintings and sculpture—including works by Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, and Auguste Rodin—which has showed at several national art museums. Additionally, the couple's collection of cartoon and caricature artwork is owned by the U.S. Library of Congress.

Early life

Burke was born Caroline Flora Berg on July 7, 1913 in Portland, Oregon^[3] to a Jewish family. Her mother was Saidee (née Rosenberg), and her father, Charles F. Berg, was a prominent Portland news radio executive and President of the Pacific Coast Advertising Men's Association.^[4] Her father, a native of San Francisco, also founded the Charles F. Berg Company, a local Portland women's clothing chain,^[5] and co-produced "The Hoot Owls," a pioneering radio sketch show for KGW.^[6] The Charles F. Berg Building, an Art Deco building in downtown Portland that served as one of the Berg storefronts, is named for her father, who died there of a heart attack in 1932.^[7]^[8] She had one elder brother, Forrest Talbott Berg,^[3] from her father's previous marriage.^[9]

Burke graduated from the Catlin Hillside School (now Catlin Gabel School),^[10] after which she attended Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania,^[3] where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in art history in 1933.^[11]

Career

In 1941 and 1942, Burke appeared on Broadway in productions of Brooklyn, U.S.A. and Gilbert Miller's Heart of a City, respectively.^[3] In the spring of 1942, she relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film.^[12] It was noted in a July 1, 1942 article in the Detroit Free Press:

Some weeks ago, a petite New York miss named Caroline Burke came to Hollywood. Object: Screen career. Experience: Two bits in Broadway shows and some radio appearances. Hollywood producers were not sufficiently interested to give her interviews. Agents were too unimpressed to represent her... Instead of encouraging her, [agents] stressed the difficulties of crashing studio gates. But pint-size Miss Burke is a person of determination. "Others have done it," said she, "and so can I."^[12]

Burke appeared in a total of four films, with her first and only leading role as Martha Kincaid in The Mysterious Rider (1942) opposite Buster Crabbe.^[3] While appearing in films in Hollywood, she simultaneously worked as an advertising and radio editor in California.^[3] From 1946 to 1956 she was one of the first women producers in television, producing, writing and directing network series for the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), including the award-winning telecast of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author.^[3] In the 1950s, she served on NBC's radio show, Monitor, and interviewed various public figures, including actor Marlon Brando.^[13]

She spent her later life living and working in New York City, where she was a theatrical producer, co-producing Broadway stagings of Paddy Chayefsky's The Tenth Man, and Brendan Behan's The Hostage.^[3] In 1962, she produced the first stage productions of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter and The Collection at the Cherry Lane Theatre.^[3] In her later life, she was also a contributing editor for Diplomat magazine, and taught television production at Columbia University.^[3] At the time of her death in 1964, she was in the midst of producing an Off-Broadway production of Pinter's first play, The Room.^[3]

Art collection

In addition to her career in entertainment, Burke was an avid art collector, and founded the art history department at Reed College in her hometown of Portland, Oregon.^[3]^[14] She and her husband's art collection included works by Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Paul Klee, Joan Miró, Édouard Vuillard, Georges Rouault; and sculpture by Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Georges Braque, and William Zorach.^[3] The collection was displayed at Huntington Hartford's Gallery of Modern Art in New York and at the Portland Art Museum in 1964.^[3]^[15]

The Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon is owned by the Library of Congress, and contains 2,085 drawings, prints, and paintings related to the art of caricature, cartoon, and illustration.^[16]

Personal life

On August 7, 1945, Burke married camera manufacturing magnate Cyrus Max Adler at the Portland home of her brother, Forrest, in a private Jewish ceremony.^[10]

Burke later married advertising executive Erwin D. Swann, who worked for the Foote, Cone & Belding Ad Agency; the couple resided in Manhattan at 24 West 55th Street.^[3]

Death

Burke died of undisclosed causes at Memorial Hospital in Manhattan on December 5, 1964.^[3] She was survived by her husband, as well as her mother, Saidee Berg, and her brother, Forrest Berg.^[3]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1942	The Mysterious Rider	Martha Kincaid	Only starring role	^[17]
1943	Silent Witness	Nurse		^[17]
1943	Spy Train	Minor role		^[17]
1945	Rhapsody in Blue	Party Guest		^[17]

Stage credits

Production

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1959–1961	The Hostage	Producer	Broadway	^[18]
1960–1961	The Tenth Man	Associate producer	Broadway	^[18]
1962	The Collection	Producer	Off-Broadway	^[3]
1962–1964	The Dumb Waiter	Producer	Off-Broadway	^[3]
1964	A Slight Ache	Producer	Off-Broadway	^[3]
1964	The Room	Producer	Off-Broadway	^[3]

As performer

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1941–1942	Brooklyn, U.S.A.		Broadway	^[3]
1942	Heart of a City	Patsy	Broadway	^[19]

References

^ Doyle, Billy H. (1999). The Ultimate Directory of Silent and Sound Era Performers: A Necrology of Actors and Actresses. Scarecrow Press. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-810-83547-4.
^ "Hollywood". The Cumberland News. Cumberland, Maryland. November 16, 1951. p. 28 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v "CAROLINE SWANN STAGE PRODUCER". The New York Times. December 7, 1964. Archived from the original on April 5, 2018. Retrieved April 3, 2018.
^ "Special Events of the Week". The Oregon Daily Journal. Portland, Oregon. July 8, 1917. p. 39 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Charles F. Berg Company Fashion Show". The Oregon History Project. The Oregon Historical Society. Retrieved April 5, 2018.
^ Kramer, Ronald. "KGW Hoot Owls" (PDF). The Oregon Encyclopedia. Retrieved April 5, 2018.
^ "Charles F. Berg photographs collection, 1900-1974". Archives West. Retrieved April 5, 2018 – via Orbis-Cascade Alliance.
^ "Charles F. Berg Dies In Portland". Medford Mail Tribune. Medford, Oregon. September 4, 1932. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Testamentary Trusts Created Under the Last Will of Charles F. Berg". Court of Appeals of Oregon. May 3, 2000. Retrieved April 5, 2018 – via FindLaw.
^ ^a ^b "Portland Rites Of Interest". Statesman Journal. Salem, Oregon. August 9, 1945. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Bryn Mawr College Yearbook. Class of 1933". Bryn Mawr College Repository. Retrieved April 3, 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Short True Story". Detroit Free Press. July 1, 1942. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Actor, Marlon Brando, Monitor's Caroline Burke". Getty Images. December 6, 1955. Retrieved April 5, 2018.
^ Jefferson's Legacy: A Semiannual Planned Giving Newsletter. Vol. 2. Library of Congress. 1996. p. 10.
^ Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, from the Collection of Caroline & Erwin Swann: "The Pleasures of the Eye"; an Exhibition Organized 1964 by the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon. Portland Art Museum. 1964. p. 24 – via Google Books.
^ "Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon". Library of Congress. 1780. Retrieved April 5, 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Caroline Burke". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Archived from the original on May 10, 2019. Retrieved May 10, 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Caroline Swann". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
^ "Heart of a City". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved April 5, 2018.

External links

Caroline Burke at IMDb
Caroline Burke at the Internet Broadway Database

[1] Doyle, Billy H. (1999). The Ultimate Directory of Silent and Sound Era Performers: A Necrology of Actors and Actresses. Scarecrow Press. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-810-83547-4.

[cumberland-2] "Hollywood". The Cumberland News. Cumberland, Maryland. November 16, 1951. p. 28 – via Newspapers.com.

[nyt-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v "CAROLINE SWANN STAGE PRODUCER". The New York Times. December 7, 1964. Archived from the original on April 5, 2018. Retrieved April 3, 2018.

[4] "Special Events of the Week". The Oregon Daily Journal. Portland, Oregon. July 8, 1917. p. 39 – via Newspapers.com.

[5] "Charles F. Berg Company Fashion Show". The Oregon History Project. The Oregon Historical Society. Retrieved April 5, 2018.

[6] Kramer, Ronald. "KGW Hoot Owls" (PDF). The Oregon Encyclopedia. Retrieved April 5, 2018.

[7] "Charles F. Berg photographs collection, 1900-1974". Archives West. Retrieved April 5, 2018 – via Orbis-Cascade Alliance.

[8] "Charles F. Berg Dies In Portland". Medford Mail Tribune. Medford, Oregon. September 4, 1932. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.

[9] "Testamentary Trusts Created Under the Last Will of Charles F. Berg". Court of Appeals of Oregon. May 3, 2000. Retrieved April 5, 2018 – via FindLaw.

[statesman-10] "Portland Rites Of Interest". Statesman Journal. Salem, Oregon. August 9, 1945. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.

[11] "Bryn Mawr College Yearbook. Class of 1933". Bryn Mawr College Repository. Retrieved April 3, 2018.

[detroit-12] "Short True Story". Detroit Free Press. July 1, 1942. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.

[13] "Actor, Marlon Brando, Monitor's Caroline Burke". Getty Images. December 6, 1955. Retrieved April 5, 2018.

[14] Jefferson's Legacy: A Semiannual Planned Giving Newsletter. Vol. 2. Library of Congress. 1996. p. 10.

[15] Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, from the Collection of Caroline & Erwin Swann: "The Pleasures of the Eye"; an Exhibition Organized 1964 by the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon. Portland Art Museum. 1964. p. 24 – via Google Books.

[16] "Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon". Library of Congress. 1780. Retrieved April 5, 2018.

[afi-17] "Caroline Burke". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Archived from the original on May 10, 2019. Retrieved May 10, 2019.

[ib-18] "Caroline Swann". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved April 4, 2018.

[19] "Heart of a City". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved April 5, 2018.

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+| spouse        = {{plainlist|
+* {{marriage|Cyrus Max Adler|1945}}
+* Erwin Swann (unknown; her death 1964)
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-'''Caroline Burke''' (née '''Berg'''; July 7, 1913{{spaced en dash}}December 5, 1964)<ref>{{cite book|author=Doyle, Billy H.|title=The Ultimate Directory of Silent and Sound Era Performers: A Necrology of Actors and Actresses|p=80|year=1999|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-810-83547-4}}</ref> was an American actress, theater producer, television producer, writer, and [[Private collection|art collector]]. She appeared in several films in the early 1940s before becoming a theater producer in New York City, notably producing several stage productions of [[Harold Pinter]] plays and Broadway productions. She also worked as a producer for [[National Broadcasting Company|NBC]] in the 1950s, and at the time was the company's only female producer.<ref name=cumberland>{{cite news|work=The Cumberland News|location=Cumberland, Maryland|title=Hollywood|p=28|date=November 16, 1951|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/65331206/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
+'''Caroline Flora Burke''' (née '''Berg'''; July 7, 1913{{spaced en dash}}December 5, 1964)<ref>{{cite book|author=Doyle, Billy H.|title=The Ultimate Directory of Silent and Sound Era Performers: A Necrology of Actors and Actresses|page=80|year=1999|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-810-83547-4}}</ref> was an American actress, theater producer, television producer, writer, and [[Private collection|art collector]]. She appeared in several films in the early 1940s before becoming a theater producer in New York City, notably producing several stage productions of [[Harold Pinter]] plays and Broadway productions. She also worked as a producer for [[National Broadcasting Company|NBC]] in the 1950s, and at the time was the company's only female producer.<ref name=cumberland>{{cite news|work=The Cumberland News|location=Cumberland, Maryland|title=Hollywood|page=28|date=November 16, 1951|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/65331206/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
 The daughter of a prominent [[Portland, Oregon]] businessman, Burke studied art history at [[Bryn Mawr College]] before embarking on a short-lived career as an actress. Her first role was a starring part in ''[[The Mysterious Rider (1942 film)|The Mysterious Rider]]'' (1942), which she followed with three minor film appearances before retiring from film acting. In the 1950s, she transitioned into executive and production work for NBC, as well as theatre producing for various Broadway and [[Off-Broadway]] productions. In addition to her career in entertainment, Burke also taught television production at [[Columbia University]], and was the founder of the art history department at [[Reed College]]. She died of undisclosed causes in 1964 while in the midst of producing a second Harold Pinter stage production, which opened the week following her death.
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 ==Early life==
-Burke was born Caroline Flora Berg on July 7, 1913 in [[Portland, Oregon]]<ref name=nyt/> to Saidee (née Rosenberg) and Charles F. Berg, the latter of whom was a prominent Portland news radio executive and President of the Pacific Coast Advertising Men's Association.<ref>{{cite news|work=The Oregon Daily Journal|date=July 8, 1917|title=Special Events of the Week|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/78311174/|via=Newspapers.com|p=39|location=Portland, Oregon}}</ref> Her father, a native of [[San Francisco]], also founded the Charles F. Berg Company, a local Portland women's clothing chain,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://oregonhistoryproject.org/articles/historical-records/charles-f-berg-company-fashion-show/#.WsX28S-ZNbU|work=The Oregon History Project|title=Charles F. Berg Company Fashion Show|accessdate=April 5, 2018|publisher=The [[Oregon Historical Society]]}}</ref> and co-produced "The Hoot Owls," a pioneering radio sketch show for [[KGW]].<ref>{{cite web|work=The Oregon Encyclopedia|url=https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/kgw_hoot_owls/pdf/|title=KGW Hoot Owls|author=Kramer, Ronald|accessdate=April 5, 2018|format=PDF}}</ref> The [[Charles F. Berg Building]], an [[Art Deco]] building in [[downtown Portland, Oregon|downtown Portland]] that served as one of the Berg storefronts, is named for her father, who died there of a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] in 1932.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv56783|work=Archives West|title=Charles F. Berg photographs collection, 1900-1974|via=Orbis-Cascade Alliance|accessdate=April 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite newspaper|work=Medford Mail Tribune|location=Medford, Oregon|title=Charles F. Berg Dies In Portland|p=7|date=September 4, 1932|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/96858188/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She had one elder brother, Forrest Talbott Berg,<ref name=nyt/> from her father's previous marriage.<ref>{{cite web|title=Testamentary Trusts Created Under the Last Will of Charles F. Berg|work=Court of Appeals of Oregon|accessdate=April 5, 2018|via=[[FindLaw]]|date=May 3, 2000|url=https://caselaw.findlaw.com/or-court-of-appeals/1387252.html}}</ref>
+Burke was born Caroline Flora Berg on July 7, 1913 in [[Portland, Oregon]]<ref name=nyt/> to a [[Jews|Jewish]] family. Her mother was Saidee (née Rosenberg), and her father, Charles F. Berg, was a prominent Portland news radio executive and President of the Pacific Coast Advertising Men's Association.<ref>{{cite news|work=The Oregon Daily Journal|date=July 8, 1917|title=Special Events of the Week|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/78311174/|via=Newspapers.com|page=39|location=Portland, Oregon}}</ref> Her father, a native of [[San Francisco]], also founded the Charles F. Berg Company, a local Portland women's clothing chain,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://oregonhistoryproject.org/articles/historical-records/charles-f-berg-company-fashion-show/#.WsX28S-ZNbU|work=The Oregon History Project|title=Charles F. Berg Company Fashion Show|accessdate=April 5, 2018|publisher=The [[Oregon Historical Society]]}}</ref> and co-produced "The Hoot Owls," a pioneering radio sketch show for [[KGW]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=The Oregon Encyclopedia|url=https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/kgw_hoot_owls/pdf/|title=KGW Hoot Owls|author=Kramer, Ronald|accessdate=April 5, 2018|format=PDF}}</ref> The [[Charles F. Berg Building]], an [[Art Deco]] building in [[downtown Portland, Oregon|downtown Portland]] that served as one of the Berg storefronts, is named for her father, who died there of a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] in 1932.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv56783|work=Archives West|title=Charles F. Berg photographs collection, 1900-1974|via=Orbis-Cascade Alliance|accessdate=April 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|work=Medford Mail Tribune|location=Medford, Oregon|title=Charles F. Berg Dies In Portland|page=7|date=September 4, 1932|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/96858188/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She had one elder brother, Forrest Talbott Berg,<ref name=nyt/> from her father's previous marriage.<ref>{{cite web|title=Testamentary Trusts Created Under the Last Will of Charles F. Berg|work=Court of Appeals of Oregon|accessdate=April 5, 2018|via=[[FindLaw]]|date=May 3, 2000|url=https://caselaw.findlaw.com/or-court-of-appeals/1387252.html}}</ref>
 Burke  graduated from the Catlin Hillside School (now [[Catlin Gabel School]]),<ref name=statesman/> after which she attended [[Bryn Mawr College]] in [[Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania]],<ref name=nyt/> where she earned a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in art history in 1933.<ref>{{cite web|work=Bryn Mawr College Repository|url=https://repository.brynmawr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1027&context=bmc_yearbooks|title=Bryn Mawr College Yearbook. Class of 1933|accessdate=April 3, 2018}}</ref>
 ==Career==
-In 1941 and 1942, Burke appeared on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] in productions of ''Brooklyn, U.S.A.'' and [[Gilbert Miller]]'s ''Heart of a City'', respectively.<ref name=nyt/> In the spring of 1942, she relocated to [[Los Angeles]] to pursue a career in film.<ref name=detroit>{{cite news|work=Detroit Free Press|title=Short True Story|p=10|date=July 1, 1942|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/97534795/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> It was noted in a July 1, 1942 article in the ''[[Detroit Free Press]]:
+In 1941 and 1942, Burke appeared on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] in productions of ''Brooklyn, U.S.A.'' and [[Gilbert Miller]]'s ''Heart of a City'', respectively.<ref name=nyt/> In the spring of 1942, she relocated to [[Los Angeles]] to pursue a career in film.<ref name=detroit>{{cite news|work=Detroit Free Press|title=Short True Story|page=10|date=July 1, 1942|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/97534795/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> It was noted in a July 1, 1942 article in the ''[[Detroit Free Press]]:
-{{quote|Some weeks ago, a petite New York miss named Caroline Burke came to Hollywood. Object: Screen career. Experience: Two bits in Broadway shows and some radio appearances. Hollywood producers were not sufficiently interested to give her interviews. Agents were too unimpressed to represent her... Instead of encouraging her, [agents] stressed the difficulties of crashing studio gates. But pint-size Miss Burke is a person of determination. "Others have done it," said she, "and so can I."<ref name=detroit/>}}
+{{blockquote|Some weeks ago, a petite New York miss named Caroline Burke came to Hollywood. Object: Screen career. Experience: Two bits in Broadway shows and some radio appearances. Hollywood producers were not sufficiently interested to give her interviews. Agents were too unimpressed to represent her... Instead of encouraging her, [agents] stressed the difficulties of crashing studio gates. But pint-size Miss Burke is a person of determination. "Others have done it," said she, "and so can I."<ref name=detroit/>}}
-Burke appeared in a total of four films, with her first and only leading role as Martha Kincaid in ''[[The Mysterious Rider (1942 film)|The Mysterious Rider]]'' (1942) opposite [[Buster Crabbe]].<ref name=nyt>{{cite web|work=The New York Times|title=CAROLINE SWANN STAGE PRODUCER|date=December 7, 1964|accessdate=April 3, 2018|archivedate=2018-04-05|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20180405090433/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/07/caroline-swann-stage-producer.html#|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/07/caroline-swann-stage-producer.html|dead-url=no|df=}}</ref> While appearing in films in Hollywood, she simultaneously worked as an advertising and radio editor in California.<ref name=nyt/> From 1946 to 1956 she was one of the first women producers in television, producing, writing and directing network series for the [[National Broadcasting Company]] (NBC), including the award-winning telecast of Pirandello's ''[[Six Characters in Search of an Author]]''.<ref name=nyt/> In the 1950s, she served on NBC's radio show, ''[[Monitor (NBC Radio)|Monitor]]'', and interviewed various public figures, including actor [[Marlon Brando]].<ref>{{cite web|work=Getty Images|url=https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/aired-pictured-actor-marlon-brando-monitors-caroline-burke-news-photo/140374237#/aired-12061955-pictured-actor-marlon-brando-monitors-caroline-burke-picture-id140374237|title=Actor, Marlon Brando, Monitor's Caroline Burke|date=December 6, 1955|accessdate=April 5, 2018}}</ref>
+Burke appeared in a total of four films, with her first and only leading role as Martha Kincaid in ''[[The Mysterious Rider (1942 film)|The Mysterious Rider]]'' (1942) opposite [[Buster Crabbe]].<ref name=nyt>{{cite web|work=The New York Times|title=CAROLINE SWANN STAGE PRODUCER|date=December 7, 1964|accessdate=April 3, 2018|archivedate=2018-04-05|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20180405090433/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/07/caroline-swann-stage-producer.html|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/07/caroline-swann-stage-producer.html|url-status=live}}</ref> While appearing in films in Hollywood, she simultaneously worked as an advertising and radio editor in California.<ref name=nyt/> From 1946 to 1956 she was one of the first women producers in television, producing, writing and directing network series for the [[National Broadcasting Company]] (NBC), including the award-winning telecast of Pirandello's ''[[Six Characters in Search of an Author]]''.<ref name=nyt/> In the 1950s, she served on NBC's radio show, ''[[Monitor (NBC Radio)|Monitor]]'', and interviewed various public figures, including actor [[Marlon Brando]].<ref>{{cite web|work=Getty Images|url=https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/aired-pictured-actor-marlon-brando-monitors-caroline-burke-news-photo/140374237#/aired-12061955-pictured-actor-marlon-brando-monitors-caroline-burke-picture-id140374237|title=Actor, Marlon Brando, Monitor's Caroline Burke|date=December 6, 1955|accessdate=April 5, 2018}}</ref>
-She spent her later life living and working in New York City, where she was a theatrical producer, co-producing Broadway stage productions of [[Paddy Chayefsky]]'s ''[[The Tenth Man (Chayefsky play)|The Tenth Man]]'', and [[Brendan Behan]]'s ''[[The Hostage (play)|The Hostage]]''.<ref name=nyt/> In 1962, she produced the first stage productions of [[Harold Pinter]]'s ''[[The Dumb Waiter]]'' and ''The Collection'' at the Cherry Lane Theatre.<ref name=nyt/> In her later life, she was also a contributing editor for ''Diplomat'' magazine, and taught television production at [[Columbia University]].<ref name=nyt/>  At the time of her death in 1964, she was in the midst of producing an Off-Broadway production of Pinter's first play, ''[[The Room (play)|The Room]]''.<ref name=nyt/>
+She spent her later life living and working in New York City, where she was a theatrical producer, co-producing Broadway stagings of [[Paddy Chayefsky]]'s ''[[The Tenth Man (Chayefsky play)|The Tenth Man]]'', and [[Brendan Behan]]'s ''[[The Hostage (play)|The Hostage]]''.<ref name=nyt/> In 1962, she produced the first stage productions of [[Harold Pinter]]'s ''[[The Dumb Waiter]]'' and ''The Collection'' at the Cherry Lane Theatre.<ref name=nyt/> In her later life, she was also a contributing editor for ''Diplomat'' magazine, and taught television production at [[Columbia University]].<ref name=nyt/>  At the time of her death in 1964, she was in the midst of producing an Off-Broadway production of Pinter's first play, ''[[The Room (play)|The Room]]''.<ref name=nyt/>
 ==Art collection==
-In addition to her career in entertainment, Burke was an avid art collector, and founded the art history department at [[Reed College]] in her hometown of Portland, Oregon.<ref name=nyt/><ref>{{cite book|title=Jefferson's Legacy: A Semiannual Planned Giving Newsletter|year=1996|publisher=[[Library of Congress]]|volume=2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ESvQVdGe8cQC&q=caroline+burke+swann+portland&dq=caroline+burke+swann+portland&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi5p_jC6aLaAhXKwVQKHV6TBTgQ6AEILzAB|p=10}}</ref> She and her husband's art collection included works by [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Paul Gauguin]], [[Paul Klee]], [[Joan Miró]], [[Édouard Vuillard]], [[Georges Rouault]]; and sculpture by [[Auguste Rodin]], [[Edgar Degas]], [[Georges Braque]], and [[William Zorach]].<ref name=nyt/>   The collection was displayed at Huntington Hartford's Gallery of Modern Art in New York and at the [[Portland Art Museum]] in 1964.<ref name=nyt/><ref>{{cite book|title=Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, from the Collection of Caroline & Erwin Swann: "The Pleasures of the Eye"; an Exhibition Organized 1964 by the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon|publisher=Portland Art Museum|year=1964|p=24|via=Google Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F8rpAAAAMAAJ&q=caroline+burke+portland&dq=caroline+burke+portland&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjP1d326KLaAhVrl1QKHV8eCkgQ6AEIKTAA}}</ref>
+In addition to her career in entertainment, Burke was an avid art collector, and founded the art history department at [[Reed College]] in her hometown of Portland, Oregon.<ref name=nyt/><ref>{{cite book|title=Jefferson's Legacy: A Semiannual Planned Giving Newsletter|year=1996|publisher=[[Library of Congress]]|volume=2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ESvQVdGe8cQC&q=caroline+burke+swann+portland|page=10}}</ref> She and her husband's art collection included works by [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Paul Gauguin]], [[Paul Klee]], [[Joan Miró]], [[Édouard Vuillard]], [[Georges Rouault]]; and sculpture by [[Auguste Rodin]], [[Edgar Degas]], [[Georges Braque]], and [[William Zorach]].<ref name=nyt/>   The collection was displayed at Huntington Hartford's Gallery of Modern Art in New York and at the [[Portland Art Museum]] in 1964.<ref name=nyt/><ref>{{cite book|title=Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, from the Collection of Caroline & Erwin Swann: "The Pleasures of the Eye"; an Exhibition Organized 1964 by the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon|publisher=Portland Art Museum|year=1964|page=24|via=Google Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F8rpAAAAMAAJ&q=caroline+burke+portland}}</ref>
-The Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon is owned by the [[Library of Congress]], and contains 2,085 drawings, prints, and paintings related to the art of caricature, cartoon, and illustration.<ref>{{cite web|work=Library of Congress|title=Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon|accessdate=April 5, 2018|url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/230_swan.html}}</ref>
+The Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon is owned by the [[Library of Congress]], and contains 2,085 drawings, prints, and paintings related to the art of caricature, cartoon, and illustration.<ref>{{cite web|work=Library of Congress|title=Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon|date=1780 |accessdate=April 5, 2018|url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/230_swan.html}}</ref>
 ==Personal life==
-On August 7, 1945, Burke married camera manufacturing magnate Cyrus Max Adler at the Portland home of her brother, Forrest, in a private [[Judaism|Jewish]] ceremony.<ref name=statesman>{{cite news|work=[[Statesman Journal]]|location=Salem, Oregon|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/80191956/|via=Newspapers.com|date=August 9, 1945|p=6|title=Portland Rites Of Interest}}</ref>
+On August 7, 1945, Burke married camera manufacturing magnate Cyrus Max Adler at the Portland home of her brother, Forrest, in a private [[Judaism|Jewish]] ceremony.<ref name=statesman>{{cite news|work=[[Statesman Journal]]|location=Salem, Oregon|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/80191956/|via=Newspapers.com|date=August 9, 1945|page=6|title=Portland Rites Of Interest}}</ref>
-Burke later married advertising executive Erwin D. Swann, who worked for the Foote, Cone & Belding Ad Agency; the couple resided in Manhattan at 24 West 55th Street.<ref name=nyt/>
+Burke later married advertising executive Erwin D. Swann, who worked for the Foote, Cone & Belding Ad Agency; the couple resided in Manhattan at [[Rockefeller Apartments|24 West 55th Street]].<ref name=nyt/>
 ==Death==
-Burke died of undisclosed causes at [[Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center|Memorial Hospital]] in Manhattan on December 5, 1964.<ref name=nyt/> She was survived by her husband, as well as her mother, Saidee Berg, and her brother, Forrest Berg.<ref name=nyt/> She is interred in a family plot at [[Beth Israel Cemetery (Portland, Oregon)|Beth Israel Cemetery]] in Portland, alongside her mother (1884{{en dash}}1970), father (1871{{en dash}}1932), and brother (1901{{en dash}}1997).<ref>{{cite web|work=Find a Grave|title=Caroline Swann Berg|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/148416203/caroline-swann|accessdate=April 5, 2018}}</ref>
+Burke died of undisclosed causes at [[Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center|Memorial Hospital]] in Manhattan on December 5, 1964.<ref name=nyt/> She was survived by her husband, as well as her mother, Saidee Berg, and her brother, Forrest Berg.<ref name=nyt/>
 ==Filmography==
-{| class="wikitable sortable"
+{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;"
 |-
-! Year
+! scope="col" | Year
-! Title
+! scope="col" | Title
-! Role
+! scope="col" | Role
+! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes
-! Notes
+! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference}}
 |-
-| 1942
+! scope="row" |  1942
 | ''[[The Mysterious Rider (1942 film)|The Mysterious Rider]]''
 | Martha Kincaid
 | Only starring role
+| align=center| <ref name=afi>{{cite web|url=http://catalog.afi.com/Person/27840-Caroline-Burke?isMiscCredit=False|work=[[AFI Catalog of Feature Films]]|publisher=[[American Film Institute]]|title=Caroline Burke|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190510030017/http://catalog.afi.com/Person/27840-Caroline-Burke?isMiscCredit=False|archive-date=May 10, 2019|access-date=May 10, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
 |-
-| 1943
+! scope="row"| 1943
-| ''Silent Witness''
+| ''[[Silent Witness (1943 film)|Silent Witness]]''
 | Nurse
 |
+| align=center|<ref name=afi/>
 |-
-| 1943
+! scope="row"| 1943
-| ''Spy Train''
+| ''[[Spy Train]]''
 | Minor role
 |
+| align=center|<ref name=afi/>
 |-
-| 1945
+! scope="row"| 1945
 | ''[[Rhapsody in Blue (film)|Rhapsody in Blue]]''
 | Party Guest
 |
+| align=center|<ref name=afi/>
 |-
 |}
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 ==Stage credits==
 ===Production===
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+{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;"
 |-
-! Year
+! scope="col" | Year
-! Title
+! scope="col" | Title
+! scope="col" | Role
-! Contribution
+! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes
-! Notes
-! class="unsortable"| {{abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
+! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference}}
 |-
+! scope="row" | 1959–1961
-| 1959–61
 | ''[[The Hostage (play)|The Hostage]]''
 | Producer
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 |-
+! scope="row"| 1960–1961
-| 1960–61
 | ''[[The Tenth Man (Chayefsky play)|The Tenth Man]]''
 | Associate producer
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 | align=center| <ref name=ib>{{cite web|work=Internet Broadway Database|title=Caroline Swann|accessdate=April 4, 2018|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/caroline-swann-98799}}</ref>
 |-
-| 1962
+! scope="row"| 1962
 | ''[[The Collection (play)|The Collection]]''
 | Producer
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+! scope="row"| 1962–1964
-| 1962–64
 | ''[[The Dumb Waiter]]''
 | Producer
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 |-
-| 1964
+! scope="row"| 1964
 | ''[[A Slight Ache]]''
 | Producer
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 |-
-| 1964
+! scope="row"| 1964
 | ''[[The Room (play)|The Room]]''
 | Producer
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 ===As performer===
-{| class="wikitable sortable"
+{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;"
 |-
-! Year
+! scope="col" | Year
-! Title
+! scope="col" | Title
-! Role
+! scope="col" | Role
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-! Notes
-! class="unsortable"| {{abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
+! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference}}
 |-
+! scope="row" | 1941–1942
-| 1941–42
 | ''Brooklyn, U.S.A.''
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 |-
-| 1942
+! scope="row"| 1942
 | ''Heart of a City''
 | Patsy
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+[[Category:American women television producers]]
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+[[Category:American art collectors]]
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+[[Category:Women collectors]]
 [[Category:Writers from Portland, Oregon]]
+[[Category:American women academics]]
+[[Category:20th-century American Jews]]