14 Facts About Martha O'Driscoll

Martha O'Driscoll was an American film actress from 1937 until 1947.

Martha O'Driscoll retired in 1947 after marrying her second husband, Arthur I Appleton, mogger of Appleton Electric Company in Chicago.

Martha O'Driscoll was given a role in Collegiate, a musical in which Betty Grable had an early leading role.

Martha O'Driscoll was given more visible parts and began pitching products in magazine advertisements for Max Factor and Royal Crown Cola, among many others.

Martha O'Driscoll had other small dancing roles in Here Comes the Band, The Big Broadcast of 1936, and The Great Ziegfeld.

Martha O'Driscoll's roles were initially small; in her first Universal film, She's Dangerous, she was not credited by name.

Martha O'Driscoll's face appeared on such advertisements as Charm-Kurl Supreme Cold Wave and Max Factor Hollywood Face Powder.

Martha O'Driscoll was then given the lead in the B film Pacific Blackout, starring Robert Preston.

Martha O'Driscoll starred in the cult classic House of Dracula with Lon Chaney Jr.

Martha O'Driscoll announced her intention to divorce in January 1945, but because of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 it would be delayed until the end of the war.

In March 1947, Martha O'Driscoll established a new residence at the Hotel El Rancho in Las Vegas, Nevada with the intention of filing for divorce a second time.

On July 18,1947, Martha O'Driscoll was granted her divorce from Adams.

Martha O'Driscoll served as an officer in such Chicago-based organizations as the Sarah Siddons Society, the Ways and Means Committee of Chicago's Junior League, and the Women's Board of the Chicago Boys' Clubs; she was treasurer of the World's Adoption International Fund.

Martha O'Driscoll died on November 3,1998, aged 76, in Indian Creek Village, Florida.