Mary Virginia Martin was an American actress and singer.
37 Facts About Mary Martin
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Mary Martin was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989.
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Mary Martin's autobiography described her childhood as secure and happy.
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Mary Martin had close relationships with both of her parents as well as her siblings.
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Mary Martin's father, Preston Mary Martin, was a lawyer, and her mother, Juanita Presley, was a violin teacher.
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Mary Martin's family had a barn and orchard that kept her entertained.
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Mary Martin played with her elder sister Geraldine, climbing trees and riding ponies.
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Mary Martin sang in a trio with her sister and Marion Swofford, all three in bellhop costumes.
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Mary Martin remembered having a photographic memory as a child.
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Mary Martin got her first taste of singing solo at a fire hall, where she soaked up the crowd's appreciation.
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Mary Martin was homesick for Weatherford, her family and Hagman.
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Mary Martin was legally married on November 3,1930, at Grace Episcopal Church.
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Mary Martin was happy to begin her new life, but she soon learned that this life as she would later say was nothing but "role playing".
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Mary Martin perfectly imitated her first dance move, and she opened a dance studio.
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Mary Martin was given a ballroom studio with the premise that she would sing in the lobby every Saturday.
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Mary Martin scored her first professional gig unaware that she would soon be center stage.
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Mary Martin's father gave her advice, saying she was too young to be married.
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Mary Martin left everything behind including her young son, Larry, and stayed in Los Angeles while her father handled her divorce from Benjamin Hagman for her.
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Mary Martin began her radio career in 1939 as the vocalist on a short-lived revival of The Tuesday Night Party on CBS.
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Mary Martin became popular on Broadway and received attention in the national media singing "My Heart Belongs to Daddy".
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Mary Martin reprised the song in Night and Day, a Hollywood film about Cole Porter, in which she played herself auditioning for Porter.
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Mary Martin did not learn immediately that her father had died.
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Mary Martin opened on Broadway in The Sound of Music as Maria on November 16,1959, and stayed in the show until October 1961.
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Mary Martin won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
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Mary Martin preserved her 1957 stage performance as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun when NBC television broadcast the production live that year.
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Mary Martin's last feature film appearance was a cameo as herself in MGM's Main Street to Broadway in 1953.
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Mary Martin made an appearance in 1980 in a Royal Variety Performance in London performing "Honeybun" from South Pacific.
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Mary Martin appeared in the play Legends with Carol Channing in a one-year US national tour opening in Dallas on January 9,1986.
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Mary Martin was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1973.
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Mary Martin received the Kennedy Center Honors, an annual honor for career achievements, in 1989.
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Mary Martin received the Donaldson Award in 1943 for One Touch of Venus.
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Mary Martin received Tonys for South Pacific and in 1959 for The Sound of Music.
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Mary Martin was called Dona Maria by people in the vicinity of the Brazilian ranch.
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Washer was killed, Mary Martin sustained two broken ribs and a broken pelvis, and Gaynor's husband suffered two broken legs.
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Mary Martin was a Democrat and supported Adlai Stevenson during the 1952 presidential election.
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In 1979, Patsy Kelly told Boze Hadleigh that Mary Martin was a lesbian.
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Mary Martin is buried in City Greenwood Cemetery in Weatherford, Texas.