Mary Virginia Martin (December 1, 1913 – November 3, 1990) was an American actress and singer. She originated many roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria in The Sound of Music. She was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989. She was also the mother of actor Larry Hagman.
Mary Martin's life as a child, as she describes it in her autobiography My Heart Belongs, was secure and happy. She had close relationships with both her mother and father, as well as her siblings. Her autobiography details how the young actress had an instinctive ear for recreating musical sounds.
Martin's father, Preston Martin, was a lawyer and her mother, Juanita Presley, was a violin teacher. Although the doctors told Juanita that she would risk her life if she attempted to have another baby, she was determined to have a boy. Instead, she had Mary, who became quite a tomboy. Her birth was an event as all of the neighbors gathered around Juanita's bedroom window, waiting for the raising of a curtain to signal the baby’s arrival.
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A woman comes to claim her daughter and threatens to destroy the Newhall's family. When she gets killed, the prime suspect becomes Greg Newhall. He claims he is being framed and didn't kill her. But who did? Based on the book called "Mother's Day".
Keywords: based-on-book, father-daughter-relationship, foster-parenting, hanging, murder, serial-killer, stepmother
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The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s. The film's attempted biography matches many public myths surrounding Cole at the time, despite its lack of relationship with truth. For instance, truth and movie are different in regards to: his sex life (he was a gay man in a marriage of convenience with a divorcee friend), his relationship with his wife, Monty Wooley was a contemporary (not Professor), and his French military experience was a hoax.
Keywords: broadway-manhattan-new-york-city, cigarette-case, cole-porter, composer, falling-off-horse, husband-wife-relationship, manhattan-new-york-city, marriage, megaphone, musician
Cole Porter: Thanks for all the flowers.::Monty Woolley: Yes, one can only send them to a man when he's flat on his back.
Cole Porter: [to Linda Lee Porter] I've come to think of it that one of us must've followed one of us.
Monty Woolley: Haven't you ever wanted to be alone?::Gracie Harris: Yes, but with somebody.
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Overland mail riders Jack Mason and his pal, Porchy, learn that an Indian uprising is imminent because one of the tribe has been murdered by a gang of outlaws. The primary town of the mail route is also being used as a hideout and base of operations for a gang of counterfeiters led by Joe Polini. Jack and an undercover federal agent, Duke Evans, round up the counterfeiters and turn Polini over to the Indian Chief as the killer of the brave.
EVERY DAY...a battle! EVERY TRAIL,,,a battlefield!...For Riders of the Mail! (original print ad)
HE'S ON THE WARPATH...for renegade killers! (original poster)
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Caldwell and Nixon have their men rob the stage and then critcize the Sheriff for not catching the robbers. With her father the Sheriff under pressure, Mary sends for Hoppy who finds the stolen money and sets a trap to bring in the entire gang.
Keywords: banker, cabin, chinese-american, gold, gunshot-wound, hopalong-cassidy, jail, mortgage, outlaw, posse
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The correct title of this film (on the film, the posters, the lobby cards and the press book) is "Trails of Danger" while "Trails of Peril" was a working title that appeared in a trade publication that was printed before the film was released as "Trails of Danger. " Consequently, some sources think, because "Trails of Peril" appears in a print source as the title, that "Trails of Peril" is the actual title because that title also appears in an often-unreliable catalog, put together by file clerks who copied it from the original trade source. It isn't. Whatever. Anyway, Bob Bartlett returns from WWI with little but medals, but is anxious to do something significant before facing his father, U.S. Marshal Bartlett. Bob saves Mary Martin and her father John Martin from an attack by two outlaws, and he later finds a beautiful horse that belongs to a bandit, although he (Bob, not the horse) doesn't know it. The horse doesn't seem to know it either. First rattle out of the box, Bob, now riding Starlight,gets into trouble the next day when the stagecoach arrives, as the horse is identified as the one rode by the leader, Butch Coleman, of the bandits who held up the stage. Bob makes his escape, evades the posse led by Sheriff Johnson and sets out to capture Coleman and his gang and win the heart of Mary. He does so, and as he claims the reward and Mary, he is discovered as the son of the Marshal paying the reward.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, horse, lost-film
The "Show" of the Show Game!
Back of back-stage with the gyps of Broadway. See how "angels" are born. Learn the innermost secrets of the show business!
Here's the story of one sucker who came back hard, a butter-and-egg-man who was soft enough to fall, yet hard-boiled enough to out-smart the Smart-Alecs of Broadway!
PETER PAN:
We'll need lots of wood
Need lots of leaves
Need lots of paint
But hush hush hush hush hush...
Let's be quiet as a mouse
And build a lovely little house
For Wendy
Oh for Wendy
She's come to stay
ALL:
We have a mother,
At last we have a mother!
PETER PAN:
Home sweet home
Upon the wall
A welcome mat
Down in the hall for Wendy
So that Wendy
Won't go away!
ALL:
We have a mother,
At last we have a mother!
PETER PAN:
Oh what pleasure
She'll bring to us
Make us pockets and sing to us
Tell us stories we've been longing to hear
Over and over!
She'll be waiting at the door
We won't be lonely anymore
Since Wendy
WENDY:
Peter where do you live
PETER PAN:
It's a secret place.
WENDY:
Please, tell me!
PETER PAN:
Would you believe me if I told you?
WENDY:
I promise.
PETER PAN:
For sure.
WENDY:
For sure!
PETER PAN:
I have a place where dreams are born,
And time is never planned.
It's not on any chart,
You must find it with your heart.
Never Never Land.
It might be miles beyond the moon,
Or right there where you stand.
Just keep an open mind,
And then suddenly you'll find
Never Never Land.
You'll have a treasure if you stay there,
More precious far than gold.
For once you have found your way there,
You can never, never grow old.
And that's my home where dreams are born,
And time is never planned.
Just think of lovely things.
And your heart will fly on wings,
Forever in Never Never Land.
You'll have a treasure if you stay there,
More precious far than gold.
For once you have found your way there,
You can never, never grow old.
And that's my home where dreams are born,
And time is never planned.
Just think of lovely things.
And your heart will fly on wings,
Tiger Lily:
Ugg-a-wugg
Ugg-a-wugg
Ugg-a-wugg
Ugg-a-wugg wa
Peter Pan:
Ugg-a-wugg
Ugg-a-wugg
Ugg-a-wugg
Ugg-a-wugg wa
BOTH:
Gugg-a-bluck
Gugg-a-bluck
Gugg-a-bluck
Gugg-a-bluck wa-hoo
Ugg-a-wugg
Ugg-a-wugg
Ugg-a-wugg
Ugg-a-wugg
Ubble wubble
When we get in trouble
Ugg-a-woo
There's just one thing to do
Peter Pan:
I'll just send for Tiger Lily
Tiger Lily:
I'll send for Peter Pan
BOTH:
We'll be coming willy-nilly, Lily
Tiger Lily:
Beat on a drum
And I will come
Peter Pan:
And I will come and save the brave noble red skin
ALL:
Boom boom
Ugg-a-wugg
Ugg-a-wugg
Ugg-a-wugg
Ugg-a-wugg wa
Ugg-a-wugg
Ugg-a-wugg
Ugg-a-wugg
Ugg-a-wugg wa
Puff-a-wuff
Puff-a-wuff
Puff-a-wuff
Puff-a-wuff
Pow wow
Ugg-a-wugg
Ugg-a-wugg
Ugg-a-wugg
Ugg-a-wugg
Ubble wubble when you get in trouble
And you're took away by Captain Hook
Peter Pan:
I'll just send for Tiger Lily
Tiger Lily:
I'll send for Peter Pan
ALL:
We'll be coming willy-nilly, Lily
Peter Pan:
Send up a flare
Tiger Lily:
And I'll be there
ALL:
And you know
You got a friend a friend
We'll be true blood brothers till the
End--the end
We're brothers till the
PETER PAN:
Are you ready for today's lesson?
ALL:
Yes, Peter!
PETER PAN:
Listen to your teacher. Repeat after me:
I won't grow up,
(I won't grow up)
I don't want to go to school.
(I don't want to go to school)
Just to learn to be a parrot,
(Just to learn to be a parrot)
And recite a silly rule.
(And recite a silly rule)
If growing up means
It would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree,
I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up
Not me!
Not I,
Not me!
Not me!
I won't grow up,
(I won't grow up)
I don't want to wear a tie.
(I don't want to wear a tie)
And a serious expression
(And a serious expression)
In the middle of July.
(In the middle of July)
And if it means I must prepare
To shoulder burdens with a worried air,
I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up
Not me,
Not I,
Not me!
So there!
Never gonna be a man,
I won't!
Like to see somebody try
And make me.
Anyone who wants to try
And make me turn into a man,
Catch me if you can.
I won't grow up.
Not a penny will I pinch.
I will never grow a mustache,
Or a fraction of an inch.
'Cause growing up is awfuller
Than all the awful things that ever were.
I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up,
No sir,
Not I,
Not me,
So there!
I won't grow up!
(I won't grow up)
I will never even try
(I will never even try)
I will do what Peter tells me
(I will do what Peter tells me)
And I'll never ask him why
(And I'll never ask him why)
We won't grow up!
(We won't grow up)
We will never grow a day
(We will never grow a day)
And if someone tries to make it
(And if someone tries to make it)
We will simply run away
(We will simply run away)
I won't grow up!
(I won't grow up)
No, I promise that I won't
(No, I promise that I won't)
I will stay a boy forever
(I will stay a boy forever)
And be banished if I don't!
(And be banished if I don't)
And Never Land will always be
The home of beauty and joy
And neverty
I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up
Not me!
Not me!
Not me!
Not me!
No sir!
WENDY:
You're conceited!
PETER PAN:
Conceited?
Not me,
It's just that I am what I am
And I'm me!
When I look at myself
And I see in myself
All the wonderful things that I see
If I'm pleased with myself
I have ev'ry good reason to be.
I've gotta crow!
I'm just the cleverest fellow
'Twas ever my fortune to know;
I taught a trick to my shadow
To stick to the tip of my toe
I've gotta crow!
I've gotta brag!
I think it's sweet
I have fingers and feet I can wiggle and wag.
I can climb trees and play tag with the breeze
In the meadows below
I've gotta crow!
If I were a very ordinary
Ev'ry day thing,
I'd never be heard cock-a-doodling
'Round like a bird!
So Naturally
When I discover the cleverness of a remarkable me,
How can I hide it
When deep down inside it just tickles me so
That I've gotta let go and crow!
I'm really a rare thing,
Such a fair thing,
I can't keep still!
I'm bursting with pride
And I just couldn't keep it inside
If I tried so...
Naturally
When I discover the cleverness of a remarkable me,
How can I hide it
When deep down inside it just tickles me so