Miss Martin walked on stage and stopped the show with Cole Porter’s “My Heart Belongs to Daddy.” It became the seminal song of her career and inspired the title of her 1976 autobiography, “My Heart Belongs.” The legend of Mary Martin began in New York in 1938 with a small part in the musical comedy “Leave It to Me,” starring Sophie Tucker. I guess it’s my stubborn Texas determination to continue to the last breath.” “I always have a good time,” she told an interviewer at that time.
It also killed her manager and severely injured actress Janet Gaynor and her husband, all fellow passengers.Īttributing her recovery to luck, good genes and God, Miss Martin was back in New York only five months later, peddling a cosmetic product. The accident, which occurred when a drunk driver struck the taxi in which she was riding, broke her pelvis in three places and punctured a lung. She squeezed my hand and I’ll never forget it.” Then she squeezed my hand and I knew she heard. “I said, ‘I love you Mary,’ and she tried to answer me.
Although Miss Martin could not talk, Channing said she told her she was bringing friends’ good wishes. “I know that I’ll miss her for the rest of my life,” said her “Legends” co-star, singer-actress Carol Channing, who visited Miss Martin less than an hour before she died. The spunky little lady from Texas who lit up stages and television studios for more than half a century became a part of American theatrical history for her starring roles in the classic stage productions of “Peter Pan,” “South Pacific,” “Sound of Music” and other masterpieces. She had been reported as seriously ill last month and hospitalized for a series of tests.
Grant represents Miss Martin’s son, “Dallas” TV star Larry Hagman. Miss Martin, 76, died late Saturday at her Rancho Mirage home, near Palm Springs, publicist Richard Grant said. Mary Martin, the Broadway musical legend who portrayed Nellie Forbush and Maria von Trapp but who was Peter Pan to a mesmerized world, has died of cancer, it was reported Sunday.
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