Mary Martin

One of my all-time favorites.

HUGE, huge dyke.

She could sing a tad. Was a great personality. Too old for The Sound of Music and t00 be honest, Peter Pan.

Any of the kids who grew up watching her in Peter Pan on TV, and who clapped with her to save Tinkerbell, will never forget her.

Also, I saw her in a play (out of town tryouts. With Anthony Quayle) called Do You Turn Somersaults? It was just okay, and eventually it had a very short run on Broadway, but it was an interesting Russian play and they were both good, and I got to see her on stage.

Mommie Dearest

I grew up listening to the Broadway soundtracks of South Pacific, The Sound of Music, and Peter Pan. I'll always love her.

Mary Martin was one of the very few actresses the usually diplomatic Edith Head disliked working with. Another was Hedy Lamarr. She also thought Paulette Goddard was insensitive toward the seamstresses.

She's pretty wonderful in Annie Get Your Gun. She did it late 50s with John Raitt & then they filmed it for TV. She's a MUCH better actress than Merman.

Some Enchanted Evening.

Annie Get Your Gun (with John Raitt).

Kelli O’Hara is the Mary Martin of today

I used to have one of her Paramount costumes. I sold it on eBay a couple decades ago.

Her daughter Heller died April 2024.

What did you get for it, r13?

How much did you pay?

I just realized Sondra Lee is still alive

I got it for free from a costume stock in the '70s, r15. I don't remember how much I got for it. I remember wishing it had gone for more. It was a white two-piece costume consisting of tap shorts and a little crop top with cap sleeves. It had a bit of blue trim and had a bit of a nautical look.

One time she said the car they sent for her every evening broke down in traffic and she walked up a block or so, and got in a cab and said, “take me to the theatre South Pacific is playing at.” He had no idea what she was talking about.

She said from then on she made a point to remember which theater she was playing in. She seemed like a sweet lady.

DYKE, ya know!

She never did much for me, but I would have liked seeing her on stage to witness the hold she had on audiences. This video is really funny.

My son is the meanest thing on television!

Her big bulbous nose presented a challenge to lighting cameramen in her Paramount years.

I know she abandoned Larry, but when did they make up? Didn’t he want her to play Miss Ellie when Barbara Bel Geddes left Dallas in 1984?

Imagine not knowing what theater you're show is playing at.

She was very coddled in some ways by her gay-or-bi husband.

YOUR.

ETHEL MERMAN & MARY MARTIN on the 1954 FORD 50th Anniversary Show

fashion dilemma

The two titans promoting a joint show in the 70s.

Martin barley gets a word in.

She was, of course, Janet Gaynor's longtime girlfriend. Martin was such a preening twat she changed the lyrics in "Anything Goes" to be "three-letter words" from "four-letter words" because she was too much of a lady to sing [italic]that[/italic].

But she had no issues with singing about Daddy enjoying her fine Finnan Haddie.

A marvelous performer and very important to American theater. Just couldn't and can't stand her. Her televised "Peter Pan" nauseated me when I was kid.

Was anybody at a NYC taping of Mary Martin and Tony Randall performing their segments for what I believe was HBO's STANDING ROOM ONLY circa '82?

Mary sang Daddy and was great...... and Tony Randall acted as MC, ad libbing many risque jokes, etc during the set ups.

[quote]I grew up listening to the Broadway soundtracks of South Pacific, The Sound of Music, and Peter Pan. I'll always love her.

Oh, dear.

John Raitt at 56.00 mark in Annie above...

Did she ever do The Love Boat?

Must have been an interesting child to have been nauseated by Mary Martin in Peter Pan.

She had a PBS TV show called Over Easy, with Jim Hartz. It was about senior life, iirc. I used to watch it. I've always liked her, she always came across as pleasant. She had a good personality. Maybe it's me but I always felt she was an important performer. Not just anybody but someone who had real talent and presence, and who was special.

Although she looks good in some photos and with very careful makeup, I really wouldn't describe Mary Martin as beautiful by any stretch of the imagination. Maybe "cute" at best, but even that was largely because of her personality and charisma. In some photos with minimal makeup, she looks downright plain, if not worse. Like this one

Since nobody's mentioned it, she and her husband, Richard Halliday, lived in the middle of the Brazilian jungle for many years. That always struck me as a strange thing to want to do. "The farm was located in the interior of Brazil, about 200 miles southwest of the capital city of Brasília."

At least she didn't have a lot of plastic surgery to make her look like a clone.

[quote]Did she ever do The Love Boat?

Yes. She played Julie's aunt, who once licked out Isaac's mother's (Della Reese's) clit on a Very Special Episode while Gopher's mother (Ethel Merman) sang "This Could Be the Start of Something Big."

R39. You left out the best part when Julie and her snorted some lines off Patrick Labryoteaux's dick. Carol Channing did her "Vamp" routine in unison with the sniffs.