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BIRTHDAY
December 01, 1913
Weatherford, TX
DIED
November 03, 1990
RECENT CREDITS
Star Spangled Rhythm
(FILM)
Jan. 1, 2001
Tune in Tomorrow...
(FILM)
Oct. 26, 1990
Main Street to Broadway
(FILM)
Aug. 1, 1953
The Great Victor Herbert
(FILM)
Jan. 1, 1939
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Mary Martin was a wife, mother, and stage performer before she'd reached her 18th birthday. She became an overnight sensation in the 1938 Cole Porter Broadway musical Leave It to Me, stopping the show with her sly....
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Mary Martin was a wife, mother, and stage performer before she'd reached her 18th birthday. She became an overnight sensation in the 1938 Cole Porter Broadway musical Leave It to Me, stopping the show with her sly striptease number "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" (she would revise this piece in two Hollywood films, 1941's Love Thy Neighbor and the 1946 Cole Porter biopic Night and Day). From 1939 through 1943, Martin appeared in such Paramount films as New York Town (1941), Birth of the Blues (1941) and Happy Go Lucky (1942). She gave up Hollywood to return to the stage, where she became one of the biggest musical comedy attractions in Broadway history, starring in the original productions of One Touch of Venus, South Pacific, The Sound of Music, I Do I Do, and many others. Her 1953 Broadway hit Peter Pan was re-created on television several times, the 1960 telecast happily videotaped for posterity. She also had a successful run in both the Broadway and touring companies of Hello Dolly. In 1983, Martin and actress Janet Gaynor were seriously injured in a car accident; Gaynor eventually died from her injuries, but Martin recovered to the extent that she was able to continue playing guest roles on television. Mary Martin was the mother of actors Larry Hagman and Heller Halliday.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Star Spangled Rhythm
Released: Jan. 1, 2001
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Tune in Tomorrow...
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Main Street to Broadway
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The Great Victor Herbert
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