About a decade ago, I met one of the people who is quoted often in Kaufman's book. She appeared in three shows with Mary and one with Ethel Merman. She was much kinder in discussing Martin being aloof from the cast. She got to really know Mary only much later when they both lived in Rancho Mirage.
I am confused about the negative comments about Kaufman.
Martin's life was complicated, especially her marriage to Halliday. Even Martin touches on it in her autobiography. But, on talk shows, Martin talked about her Halliday marriage as ideal. Mary Martin may have been unknowable to Sondra Lee, but not to Paul Gregory, Janet Gaynor's last husband, who greatly disliked Mary. |
