Mary Martin

Mary Martin (born 1 December 1913 in Weatherford, Texas, † November 3, 1990 in Rancho Mirage, California ) was an American actress and musical singer.

Life

When she was twelve, she began taking singing lessons. 1929, before her 17th birthday, she married Benjamin J. Hagman. The marriage, from 1931 to her son, the actor Larry Hagman ( best known for his role as JR Ewing in the television series Dallas ), emerged, in 1936 divorced. She started in Dallas in nightclubs and singing on the radio until she was hired in 1939 at Paramount Pictures for the film three-quarter time on Broadway ( The Great Victor Herbert). In his second marriage in 1940 she married Richard Halliday, who died in an accident on their ranch in Brazil on March 3, 1973. Of the marriage was in 1941 a daughter, Heller Halliday, produce.

You had an accident in 1982 along with her ​​acting colleague Janet Gaynor in a car accident, she died from the late effects two years later. Martin died at the age of 76 years to cancer.

Awards

Stage productions

  • Leave It to Me! (1938 Broadway)
  • One Touch of Venus (1943-1945 Broadway / tour )
  • Pacific 1860 (1946 London)
  • Lute Song (1946 Broadway)
  • Annie Get Your Gun (1947 Tour )
  • South Pacific (1949-1952 Broadway / London)
  • Child Sir (1953 Broadway)
  • Peter Pan (1954 Tour / Broadway / tour )
  • The Skin of Our Teeth (1955 Broadway / Washington DC / Paris)
  • Three To Make Music / Music with Mary Martin (1956 Tour )
  • The Sound of Music (1959-1961 Broadway)
  • Jennie (1963 Broadway)
  • Hello, Dolly! (1965 Vietnam / Tokyo / London)
  • I Do! I Do! (1966-1969 Broadway / tour )
  • Together On Broadway: Mary Martin & Ethel Merman (1977 Broadway)
  • Do You Turn Somersaults? (1978 Broadway / tour )
  • Legends! (1985-1987 tour )
  • In 1990, she should see a big Broadway comeback in the Schmidt / Jones Musical Grovers Corners. This production did not materialize, as they had in the meanwhile having colorectal cancer.

Television productions

  • America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers ( 1951)
  • The Ford 50th Anniversary Show (1953 )
  • The General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein ( 1954)
  • Producers' Showcase: Peter Pan (1955 and 1956 )
  • Annie Get Your Gun (1957 )
  • Magic with Mary Martin (1959 )
  • Peter Pan ( 1960)
  • Mary Martin: Hello, Dolly! Round the World (1966 )
  • Valentine ( 1979)
  • Over Easy (1981-1983)

Movies

  • Three-quarter time on Broadway ( The Great Victor Herbert) (1939 )
  • Fashion Horizons ( 1940) ( short film )
  • Rhythm on the River ( 1940)
  • Love Thy Neighbor (1940 )
  • Kiss the Boys Goodbye ( 1941)
  • New York Town ( 1941)
  • Birth of the Blues ( 1941)
  • Star Spangled Rhythm (1942 )
  • Happy Go Lucky (1943 )
  • True to Life (1943 )
  • Night and Day (1946 )
  • Main Street to Broadway (1953 )
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