Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". The National Tour played Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, with Mary Martin staying with the tour until mid-1948. Mary Martin, as Annie, starred in the U. S. National road show musical tour, which started from Dallas, Texas on 3 October 1947. A year later they welcomed a son, Robin. Janet never fully recovered from her injuries. Delectably responsive, each turned them down. In 1938, she dubbed the singing voices for Margaret Sullavan in "The Shopworn Angel" and Gypsy Rose Lee in "The Battle of Broadway". Donald E. GaynorDonald (Don) E. Gaynor, 94, a lifelong resident of Norwalk, CT, died in his home surrounded by his family on Saturday, August 24, 2019, after a … She is crammed with talent but she is still top 'little' to play sophisticated parts. The production was staged by John Burrell; Associate Director by Wendy Toye; Scenic Design and lighting design by Ralph Alswang; Costume design by Motley. After the Broadway closing of the musical "One Touch of Venus", 10 February 1945, Richard Halliday and Mary Martin were in negotiations with Noël Coward for Mary to appear in "Pacific 1860" reopening of the Drury Lane theatre after the war. She ended the marriage when she found out Jacobson was gay, but the two are still close friends today. After the closing of the operetta, Noël came to the sad conclusion that the fundamental problem with "Pacific" is that Mary, sweet and charming as she is, knows nothing about Elena, never has and never will, and that although she has a delicious personality, she cannot sing. He was believed to be gay. Actress Vanessa Redgrave married Tony Richardson in 1962 and divorced in 1967. The original multiple Tony Award-winning Broadway musical by Richard Rogers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse - "The Sound of Music" - starring Mary Martin (at age 46) and Theodore Bikel (at age 35), opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 16, 1959, moved to the Mark Hellinger Theatre on November 6, 1962 and closed on June 15, 1963 after 1,433 performances. Flying Supervisor Peter Foy and Flying Effect by Joseph Kirby. The original Broadway cast album sold three million copies. I also believe my family and I are one of the last good Democrats the state of Texas ever produced. The 1948 Tony Awards awarded Mary Martin a "Special Tony Award," cited for the National touring production of "Annie Get Your Gun" spreading theatre to the country while the original cast performed in New York City. Janet Gaynor was in 3 on-screen matchups, including Charles Farrell in 7th Heaven (1927), Henry Fonda in The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935) and Robert Taylor in Small Town Girl (1936). In his autobiography, he writes: "I promised myself then that if I could afford it, I would never do a run as long as that again." The lead role of Elena Salvador was taken by Mary Martin, and the other principal actors included Coward's lover Graham Payn as Kerry Stirling, Sylvia Cecil as Rosa Cariatanza, and Winifred Ingram as Trudi. Originally a dance instructor, she came to Broadway during the Depression to begin her career as a professional actress. A Brazilian press report noted that Gaynor and Martin briefly lived with their respective husbands in the state of Goiás in the 1950s and 1960s. 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