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re: Peter Filchia's Recent Column on Mary Martin

Posted by: JohnDunlop 01:10 am EST 12/02/13
In reply to: re: Peter Filchia's Recent Column on Mary Martin - LegitOnce 12:06 am EST 12/02/13
On the A&E Biography of Mary Martin, her daughter, Heller, said that her parents' relationship was so close that she too (like Larry Hagman) felt excluded on occasion. Martin did not pay much attention to her children or grandchildren until her husband died in 1973. She was canny in knowing that "Annie Get Your Gun" on the road would make her a bigger star than "One Touch of Venus" did in 1943. And she did not care whether Merman liked it or not.

I would argue that Martin could have played Rose, but would not have because it went against her carefully crafted public image.


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