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John McMartin
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Actor Born: Warsaw, IN Biography:Born in Indiana and raised in Minnesota, "John McMartin" attended college in both Illinois and New York. McMartin initially wanted to be a print or radio journalist, but opted instead for acting. His first big break was as Corporal Billy Jester in the 1959 off-Broadway operetta spoof "Little Mary Sunshine", which won him both a Theatre World award and a bride (he married Cynthia Baer, one of the show's producers). After appearing in two "Bob Fosse"-directed productions, he enjoyed a long run as "Gwen Verdon"'s nervous boyfriend Oscar in Fosse's "Sweet Charity" (1965). He went westward to repeat the role of Oscar in the 1969 film version of "Charity", but preferred New York to Hollywood and returned to the stage. In 1971, he was cast as Benjamin Stone in the "Stephen Sondheim" hit Follies (nine years earlier, he'd been cut from Sondheim's "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"). He then... Full Biography
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