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Mary Martin
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Actor Born: December 1, 1913 in Weatherford, TX Death: November 3, 1990 in Rancho Mirage, CA Biography:"Mary Martin" was a wife, mother, and stage performer before she'd reached her 18th birthday. She became an overnight sensation in the 1938 "Cole Porter" Broadway musical Leave It to Me, stopping the show with her sly striptease number "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" (she would revise this piece in two Hollywood films, 1941's "Love Thy Neighbor" and the 1946 "Cole Porter" biopic "Night and Day"). From 1939 through 1943, Martin appeared in such Paramount films as "New York Town" (1941), "Birth of the Blues" (1941) and "Happy Go Lucky" (1942). She gave up Hollywood to return to the stage, where she became one of the biggest musical comedy attractions in Broadway history, starring in the original productions of One Touch of Venus, South Pacific, The Sound of Music, I Do I Do, and many others. Her 1953 Broadway hit Peter Pan was re-created on television several times, the 1960 telecast happily videotaped for... Full Biography
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