Mary Martin Overview:

Legendary actress, Mary Martin, was born Mary Virginia Martin on Dec 1, 1913 in Weatherford, TX. Martin died at the age of 76 on Nov 3, 1990 in Rancho Mirage, CA .

MINI BIO:

Red-headed, vivacious, energetic musical star never given the chance to dominate a big Hollywood musical in the way she ruled the Broadway stage. After a diet of wartime musical fodder, she went back to the theatre and such successes as South Pacific and The Sound of Music. Recovered from severe injuries sustained in a 1982 auto accident. Mother of Larry Hagman. Died from cancer.

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She was honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the categories of Recording and Radio. Martin was never nominated for an Academy Award.

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Mary Martin Facts
Shampooed her hair on stage in over a thousand performances of the song 'I'm going to wash that man right out-a my hair' as Nellie Forbush in 'South Pacific'.

Featured in a song by Canadian indie band The New Pornographers, which song creates a fictional TV program, "The Martin Martin Show," and then makes surreal references to it. Mary Martin in fact never had a TV show called "The Mary Martin Show, although she did host a senior citizens' talk show for a few years in the 1980s.

She has six grandchildren: Heidi Hagman (born 17 February 1958), Preston Hagman (born May 2, 1962), Timmy Weir (born in New York sometime between 1962 and 1967), Matthew Ternan Weir (born circa 1967), Mary Devon DeMeritt (born in 1975), and the last one born in 1979 to daughter Heller.

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