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Hugh Martin (August 11, 1914 – March 11, 2011) was an American musical theater and film composer, arranger, vocal coach, and playwright. He is best known for his score for the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me In St. Louis, in which Judy Garland sang three Martin songs, "The Boy Next Door," "The Trolley Song," and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." The last of these has become a Christmas season standard in the United States and around the English-speaking world. Martin became a close friend of Garland and was her accompanist at many of her concert performances in the 1950s, including her appearances at the Palace Theater.
Martin was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1914. He attended Birmingham-Southern College where he studied music.
He was a member of the Beta Beta Chapter of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity[citation needed]
Martin wrote the music, and in some cases the lyrics, for five Broadway musicals: Best Foot Forward (1941); Look Ma, I'm Dancin'! (1948); Make a Wish (1951); High Spirits (1964) (music and lyrics, with Timothy Gray); and Meet Me In St. Louis (1989), a stage version of the film with an expanded score by Martin and Ralph Blane.
Judy Garland (June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress, singer and vaudevillian. Renowned for her contralto voice, she attained international stardom through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage. Respected for her versatility, she received a Juvenile Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award, as well as Grammy Awards and a Special Tony Award. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the remake of A Star is Born and for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1961 film, Judgment at Nuremberg. At 39 years of age, she remains the youngest recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the motion picture industry.
After appearing in vaudeville with her two older sisters, Garland was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. There she made more than two dozen films, including nine with Mickey Rooney and the 1939 film with which she would be most identified, The Wizard of Oz. After 15 years, she was released from the studio but gained renewed success through record-breaking concert appearances, including a return to acting beginning with critically acclaimed performances.
A tribute to composer Hugh Martin (1914-2011)
Joni Eareckson Tada & Hugh Martin - Have Yourself a Blessed Little Christmas
Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane salute on Perry Como Show 11/29/58
Hugh Martin
One on One with Hugh Martin, CEO of Sensity Systems
Athena by Hugh Martin
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane
Hugh Martin Doherty on board BMW M3. Donegal Rally
Hugh Martin - The Stick Soldiers
4.The Boy Next Door / By Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane
Trolley Song - Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane - Originally Sung by Judy Garland
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas by Hugh Martin, arr by Mark Hayes
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" by Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane | HDpiano (Part 1)
Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Piano Solo - HD
Actors: Warren Clarke (actor), George Pravda (actor), George Segal (actor), Gertan Klauber (actor), Louise Frogley (costume designer), Renée Soutendijk (actress), Michael Nyman (composer), Mick Audsley (editor), Elizabeth Spriggs (actress), Ursula Howells (actress), Anthony Higgins (actor), Jordan Stone (miscellaneous crew), Mark Forstater (producer), Amanda Pays (actress), Amanda Pays (actress),
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller,Actors: Adele Lane (actress), Harry Lonsdale (actor), William Nicholas Selig (producer), Norval MacGregor (director), Barney Furey (actor), William M. Hough (writer), Mrs. Ellis (actress),
Plot: The Rider family, who are wealthy, pool issues to prevent young Hugh Martin from ever being left alone with their delightful daughter, Dorothy, long enough to propose to her. The family fears that Dorothy might accept him, and, moreover, they consider Hugh Martin absolutely ineligible. Hugh is finally forbidden the house entirely, and then encounters a series of escapades in which he impersonates a paperhanger, who has been engaged to cover several rooms in the Rider mansion. He also makes up for several other disguises with farcical complications; still he is unsuccessful in his efforts to see Dorothy alone. About this time the ever-alert Rider family conceives the idea of sending their daughter to a fashionable rest-cure and sanitarium. He, however, feigns illness, and presents himself as a patient at the same sanitarium. Much to his amusement, the physician, on examination, tells him that an operation is at once necessary. He is thoroughly alarmed and tries to get away from his room by the fire escape. Ignorant as to location, and unseen by Dorothy, he hides in her room. It then develops that it was the patient in the room next to Hugh's that was to be operated on, and not Hugh, and the physicians, discovering their first error, come to the conclusion that Hugh's symptoms are those of incipient smallpox. This rumor is fruitful and drives out everybody, leaving Dorothy and Hugh alone in the premises. The dénouement comes in picture showing Dorothy and Hugh standing on the roof of the sanitarium, which is now surrounded by police and is in quarantine. The telephone, however, is still immune, and Hugh sends for a minister, who stands upon the roof of the building across the way, while the policeman acts as best man, and the marriage service is performed.
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