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Contents 1 Her special Tony Award of 1948 2 Gay Icon Project 3 Unconfirmed bisexual 4 Mary Martin as a Painter 5 Trivia 6 Mary Martin at the Royal Variety Performance 7 Fair use rationale for Image:PeterPan1.jpg

[edit] Her special Tony Award of 1948

I added this information, under the "Later career" heading, when I saw that it was missing.

Supporting link: http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/archive/dyk/index.html , under the "Diva! Diva! Diva!" heading. --Harlezah (talk) 17:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gay Icon Project

In my effort to merge the now-deleted list from the article Gay icon to the Gay icons category, I have added this page to the category. I engaged in this effort as a "human script", adding everyone from the list to the category, bypassing the fact-checking stage. That is what I am relying on you to do. Please check the article Gay icon and make a judgment as to whether this person or group fits the category. By distributing this task from the regular editors of one article to the regular editors of several articles, I believe that the task of fact-checking this information can be expedited. Thank you very much. Philwelch 21:41, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Unconfirmed bisexual

Text and cat removed since based on rumor not fact. --FloNight 04:00, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mary Martin as a Painter

I was just visiting my mother and asked her about the painting from Mary Martin she had hanging up in her dining room. She explained that she got it from her sister-in-law about 30 years ago, and it was painted by the actress. It's an oil painting, a still life of flowers in a vase. I haven't been able to find any other reference to Mary as a painter. Is anone aware of her work? April 2006

Yes, I have a painting of hers, apparently done while she was in "South Pacfic."

[edit] Trivia

Regarding claim that Mary Martin and Janet Gaynor had a lesbian relationship:

"This claim is echoed, with differing strengths of conviction, on various websites - ([[1], [2], [3], [4]),..."

Link #1 http://www.answers.com/topic/mary-martin contains the Wikipedia article, so it's not a separate claim

Link #3 http://www.hollywood-underground.com/hf.htm makes no such claim

Link #4 http://www.gayinfo.tripod.com/A-Z-G.html is dead

Gee, this doesn't seem kosher to me. These don't strike me as very respectable sources of information. Any kind of "lesbian affair" seems to be based on rumors and guessing, as opposed to any kind of evidence. This lady spent most of her life as a wife and mother. She is dead and not here to defend herself against such wild claims. I think these statements are damaging and untrue. I am going to remove that paragraph, about her being a lesbian. If somebody objects, please, let me know and I'll be glad to discuss it. Thank you. MegaMom 05:22, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mary Martin at the Royal Variety Performance

This is not mentioned. She was brilliant! Her son Larry Hagman came on and fluffed his lines! Surely this should be mentioned too in her biopic.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:PeterPan1.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:48, 8 March 2008 (UTC)