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Mary Virginia Martin (December 1, 1913 – November 3, 1990) was an American actress and singer. A muse of Rodgers and Hammerstein , she originated many leading roles on stage over her career, including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific (1949), the title character in Peter Pan (1954), and Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1959).
Jul 10, 2024 · Mary Martin, a Grammy-winning talent scout, manager and record executive who helped start the careers of a long list of future legends, including Leonard Cohen, Emmylou Harris and...
Mary Martin. Actress: Peter Pan. Originally a dance instructor, she came to Broadway during the Depression to begin her career as a professional actress. A daughter of Texas, she originally began work as a dance instructor until a local evangelical-adherent burned down her studio citing her work as being too sinful for human nature.
Jul 9, 2024 · Mary Martin, a Toronto music lover, gained influence in rock and country music over the course of five decades in a male-dominated industry as a key conduit and artist whisperer. Martin died last ...
Jul 10, 2024 · Music industry executive Mary Martin, instrumental in the careers of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, died July 4 in Nashville. Kay Williams/Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. By Nick Krewen ...
4 days ago · Early in her career, music manager, talent scout and record company executive Mary Martin received the advice to surround herself with genius. The Toronto-born dynamo, who landed in New York in ...
Jul 15, 2024 · Mary Martin (born December 1, 1913, Weatherford, Texas, U.S.—died November 3, 1990, Rancho Mirage, California) was an American singer and actress best known for her work in Broadway musicals. Martin attended private schools and for a year the University of Texas.
May 23, 2018 · Mary Martin (1913-1990) was a popular stage actress, singer, dancer, television and movie star. Mary Martin was born in Weatherford, Texas, on December 1, 1913. As a child she was encouraged by her parents, Juanita and Judge Preston Martin, to study violin and voice.
Nov 3, 1990 · Mary Martin was a sensation on Broadway in Kurt Weill’s One Touch of Venus in 1943, winning a Donaldson Award. She then starred with Yul Brynner in a short run of Lute Song (1946) and appeared in London in Noel Coward’s Pacific 1860 (1946).
A legendary star of the Broadway musical theater during the ’40s and ’50s, and one of its most charming, vivacious, and best-loved performers. Her father was a lawyer and her mother a...
