Mary Martin's Dazzling Career, from Broadway to Hollywood

Theater critic and New York Times contributor David Kaufman offers a detailed, intimate portrait of Mary Martin, the woman who inspired the work of Rogers and Hammerstein and originated many leading roles over the course of her celebrated career in theater, including "Annie Get Your Gun," "South Pacific," "The Sound of Music" and "Peter Pan" in his new book, Some Enchanted Evenings: The Glittering Life and Times of Mary Martin. 

Martin getting made up as a boy, for her most beloved and coveted role: Peter Pan.

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The two presiding queens of Broadway, Ethel Merman (L) and Martin (R), in male drag on The Ford 50th Anniversary Show, which was directed by newcomer Jerome Robbins.

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Martin loved the Brits as much as they loved her. That’s Martin and Noël Coward at Sir Noël’s Jamaican retreat, rehearsing for Together With Music, their two-person, CBSTV special, in September 1955.

(Author's collection.)