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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.
Actors: Jill Carter (miscellaneous crew), Richard Hartley (composer), Byron A. Martin (miscellaneous crew), Lacey Chabert (actress), Gregory Harrison (actor), John A. Martinelli (editor), Victoria Snow (actress), John Bourgeois (actor), Timothy Busfield (actor), Thomas Hauff (actor), Jane Luk (actress), Tim Post (actor), Roxanne Hart (actress), Matthew Bennett (actor), Margaret Mohr (costume designer),
Plot: 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, stepmotherActors: Jimmie Dodd (actor), Frank Dae (actor), Edward Biby (actor), Boyd Davis (actor), Richard Bartell (actor), James Conaty (actor), John Alvin (actor), Harlan Briggs (actor), Herman Bing (actor), Chester Clute (actor), Paul Cavanagh (actor), Hobart Cavanaugh (actor), Wheaton Chambers (actor), Frank Elliott (actor), Jack Chefe (actor),
Plot: 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, musicianActors: Erville Alderson (actor), Harry A. Bailey (actor), William 'Billy' Benedict (actor), Edgar Buchanan (actor), Frank Craven (actor), Harry Depp (actor), Jimmie Dodd (actor), Tom Dugan (actor), Edward Earle (actor), Jim Farley (actor), Richard Fiske (actor), Joel Friedkin (actor), Ned Glass (actor), William Gould (actor), Ernie Adams (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Victor Adamson (actor), Vince Barnett (actor), Hank Bell (actor), George Cleveland (actor), Iron Eyes Cody (actor), Tristram Coffin (actor), Victor Cox (actor), George Morrell (actor), Hal Price (actor), Harry Semels (actor), Glenn Strange (actor), Robert Emmett Tansey (producer), Robert Emmett Tansey (writer), Robert F. Hill (director), Merrill McCormick (actor),
Plot: 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.
Genres: Western,Actors: George Morrell (actor), Charles Murphy (actor), Jess Cavin (actor), William Boyd (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), Kenneth Harlan (actor), Russell Hayden (actor), George 'Gabby' Hayes (actor), Earle Hodgins (actor), James Craig (actor), Johnny Luther (actor), Willie Fung (actor), Bruce Mitchell (actor), Art Mix (actor), Henry Otho (actor),
Plot: 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, posseActors: Hank Bell (actor), Buck Connors (actor), Bobby Dunn (actor), Frank Ellis (actor), Starlight the Horse (actor), Lew Meehan (actor), Pete Morrison (actor), Jack Perrin (actor), Joe Rickson (actor), Hal Taliaferro (actor), Virginia Brown Faire (actress), Harry S. Webb (producer), Alan James (writer), Alan James (director), F.E. Douglas (producer),
Plot: 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-filmActors: Andy Clyde (actor), Pat Harmon (actor), Barney Hellum (actor), Mack Sennett (producer), Jack Jevne (writer), Earle Rodney (writer), John A. Waldron (writer), Edward F. Cline (director), William Hornbeck (editor), Lincoln Stedman (actor), Marjorie Beebe (actress), Alice Belcher (actress), Julia Griffith (actress), Patsy O'Leary (actress), Daphne Pollard (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: George H. Plympton (writer), Henry MacRae (director), Starlight the Horse (actor), Jack Perrin (actor), George H. Plympton (writer), Helen Foster (actress), Al Ferguson (actor), Gardner Bradford (writer), William Lord Wright (writer), Tom Malloy (editor), Rex the Wonder Horse (actor), Markee the Horse (actor),
Genres: Western,Actors: William Demarest (actor), Charlie Hall (actor), Sam Hardy (actor), Jack Mulhall (actor), Gertrude Astor (actress), Gene Towne (writer), Richard Wallace (director), LeRoy Stone (editor), Richard A. Rowland (miscellaneous crew), George S. Kaufman (writer), Adelaide Heilbron (writer), Greta Nissen (actress), Jack Jarmuth (writer), Ray Rockett (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Alec B. Francis (actor), Robert Frazer (actor), Frederick Truesdell (actor), Julia Stuart (actress), O.A.C. Lund (director), Mildred Bright (actress),
Genres: Drama, Short,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