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Mary Martin is a Actor American born on 1 december 1913 at Texas (USA)

Mary Martin

Mary Martin
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Birth name Mary Virginia Martin
Nationality USA
Birth 1 december 1913 at Texas (USA)
Death 3 november 1990 (at 76 years) at Rancho Mirage (USA)

Mary Virginia Martin (December 1, 1913 – November 3, 1990) was an American actress, singer, and Broadway star. A muse of Rodgers and Hammerstein, she originated many leading roles over her career, including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music. She was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989. She was also the mother of actor Larry Hagman.

Biography

Mary Martin débute au théâtre à Broadway en 1938 et s'y produit jusqu'en 1978, principalement dans des comédies musicales (plus trois pièces). Elle est notamment la créatrice, en 1959, du rôle de Maria von Trapp, dans la comédie musicale La Mélodie du bonheur, rôle repris par Julie Andrews dans l'adaptation cinématographique de 1965.

Au cinéma, elle tourne quelques films américains à la fin des années 1930 et dans les années 1940. À la télévision, elle reprend notamment dans deux téléfilms, en 1957 et 1960, ses rôles dans deux autres comédies musicales à succès, Annie du Far West et Peter Pan (elle avait déjà repris, à l'occasion d'une série de 1955, le rôle de Peter Pan qu'elle avait créé à Broadway l'année précédente). Ultimes prestations, elle participe à deux séries (chacune, un épisode) en 1983 et 1985.

Elle mène également une carrière de chanteuse de cabaret et de radio. Pour ses contributions à la musique et à la radio, deux étoiles lui sont dédiées sur le Walk of Fame d'Hollywood Boulevard.

Mary Martin est la mère de l'acteur Larry Hagman, choriste (non crédité) dans la production originale de South Pacific à Broadway, où elle crée le rôle de Nellie Forbush en 1949, aux côtés du chanteur d'opéra Ezio Pinza.

Usually with

Edith Head
Edith Head
(8 films)
Hans Dreier
Hans Dreier
(7 films)
Charles Lane
Charles Lane
(4 films)
Ernst Fegté
Ernst Fegté
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Mary Martin (13 films)

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Actress

Only You
Only You (1994)
, 1h44
Directed by Norman Jewison, Robert N. Fried, Cary Woods
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr., Bonnie Hunt, Joaquim de Almeida, Billy Zane, Fisher Stevens
Rating65% 3.252573.252573.252573.252573.25257
After playing with an Ouija board with her brother Larry, 11-year-old Faith Corvatch becomes convinced that her soul mate, the man she is destined to be with, is named "Damon Bradley." This belief is strengthened when a few years later a carnival fortune teller tells her that "Damon Bradley" is the name of the man she will marry.
Night and Day, 2h8
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley, Mary Martin, Jane Wyman, Dorothy Malone
Roles herself
Rating60% 3.0485753.0485753.0485753.0485753.048575
La vie du compositeur américain Cole Porter, depuis ses années à Yale dans les années 10 jusqu'à son apogée durant les années 40.
True to Life, 1h34
Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Mary Martin, Franchot Tone, Dick Powell, Victor Moore, William Demarest, Mabel Paige
Roles Bonnie Porter
Rating65% 3.2818153.2818153.2818153.2818153.281815
Happy Go Lucky, 1h21
Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Mary Martin, Dick Powell, Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken, Rudy Vallée, Mabel Paige
Roles Marjory Stuart
Rating61% 3.0962553.0962553.0962553.0962553.096255
the plot is unkown, there's only 6 watcheble parts on [ youtube].
My Favorite Blonde, 1h18
Directed by Frank Butler, Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Spy
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Rail transport films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Bob Hope, Madeleine Carroll, Gale Sondergaard, George Zucco, Macdonald Carey, Walter Kingsford
Rating69% 3.492743.492743.492743.492743.49274
When a British secret agent is murdered in the line of duty, agent Karen Bentley inherits the mission from her partner. The mission is to deliver a flight plan for a hundred American bomber planes to a British agent in Chicago. The plans are hidden in a small medallion of a scorpion that Karen wears.
Star Spangled Rhythm, 1h39
Directed by Ralph Murphy, George Marshall, Frank Tuttle, A. Edward Sutherland, Lewis Allen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken, Victor Moore, Walter Abel, Anne Revere, Cass Daley
Roles "Hit the Road to Dreamland" number
Rating65% 3.29253.29253.29253.29253.2925
Pop Webster (Victor Moore) is a former silent movie star once known as "Bronco Billy" who now works as the guard on the main gate at Paramount Pictures. However, he's told his son Johnny (Eddie Bracken), who's in the Navy, that he's the studio's Executive Vice President in Charge of Production. When Johnny shows up in Hollywood on shore leave, Pop and the studio's switchboard operator Polly Judson (Betty Hutton) go all-out to maintain the illusion for Johnny and his sailor friends that Pop's a studio big-wig. Things get a bit complicated when Pop offers to put on a variety show for the Navy, featuring all of Paramount's stars, but Polly convinces Bob Hope and Bing Crosby to do the show, and they convince the rest of the stars on the lot.
Birth of the Blues, 1h27
Directed by Victor Schertzinger, Hal Walker, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Bing Crosby, Mary Martin, Brian Donlevy, Carolyn Lee, Eddie Anderson, J. Carrol Naish
Roles Betty Lou Cobb
Rating62% 3.1433653.1433653.1433653.1433653.143365
Jeff grandit près de Basin Street à la Nouvelle-Orléans, jouant de sa clarinette avec les dockers. Il monte un groupe, les Basin Street Hot-Shots, qui comprend un joueur de cornet, Memphis. Ils luttent pour que leur musique jazz soit acceptée par la société des cafés de la ville. Betty Lou rejoint leur groupe en tant que chanteuse. Memphis et Jeff tombent amoureux d'elle.
New York Town, 1h34
Directed by Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Fred MacMurray, Mary Martin, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Eric Blore
Roles Alexandra Curtis
Rating62% 3.138783.138783.138783.138783.13878
Victor Ballard (Fred MacMurray) is a poor but happy-go-lucky New York sidewalk photographer who shares a studio apartment with a painter from Poland, Stefan Janowski (Akim Tamiroff). When Victor shoots a photo of Alexandra Curtis (Mary Martin), he realizes she is desperate and in need of a friend who can guide her through the ways and means of surviving in Manhattan with no money. Alexandra moves in as a third roommate and helps out with Victor's street photography Victoria attempts to help her by getting her hooked up with a rich Park Avenue swell, but Alexandra accidentally meets his handsome son, Paul Bryson Jr. (Robert Preston) instead, and Victor, to his own surprise, becomes jealous. Before Victor and Alexandra come together as a couple, there are (of course) further misunderstandings and fisticuffs and the like.
Rhythm on the River, 1h32
Directed by Victor Schertzinger
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Bing Crosby, Mary Martin, Basil Rathbone, Oscar Levant, Charley Grapewin, William Frawley
Roles Cherry Lane
Rating67% 3.389653.389653.389653.389653.38965
Oliver Courtney (Basil Rathbone) is an arrogant composer who lets other people write songs he takes credit for. Bob Sommers (Bing Crosby) writes his tunes with Billy Starbuck (Oscar Levant). At the night of a social Christmas party, Oliver introduces Bob's song "What Would Shakespeare Have Said?" as his own. Later that night, Oliver thanks Bob for his loyalty and offers him a contract for $50 a week for three years. He refuses, saying he would rather have a catboat to visit his uncle at his river hotel, called Nobody's Inn.
The Rage of Paris, 1h18
Directed by Henry Koster
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Danielle Darrieux, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Mischa Auer, Louis Hayward, Helen Broderick, Charles Coleman
Roles La professeur d'art dramatique (à confirmer)
Rating68% 3.439733.439733.439733.439733.43973
Nicole de Cortillon, jeune Française arrivée depuis peu à New York, cherche un emploi de modèle. Par erreur, elle se retrouve dans le bureau d'un homme d'affaires, Jim Trevor, le prenant pour un photographe professionnel. À la suite d'un malentendu, elle commence à se déshabiller pour poser. Trevor, un premier temps amusé, la flanque ensuite dehors, la prenant pour une spécialiste du chantage qui essaye de le compromettre.
The Eternal Sapho, 50minutes
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Theda Bara, Walter P. Lewis, Kittens Reichert, Walter P. Lewis, George MacQuarrie, Warner Oland
Roles M Drummond.

Une femme imagine qu'elle est sous l'emprise de la poétesse grecque libertine Sappho. Sa quête érotique plutôt qu'amoureuse la mène au désastre.