Mary Martin
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"Mary Virginia Martin" was an American actress, singer and Broadway star. A muse of Rodgers and Hammerstein, she originated many leading roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific (musical)/South Pacific and Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music. She was named a Kennedy Center Honors/Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989. She was also the mother of actor Larry Hagman.

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That's the highest you can receive. It means we not only met but exceeded all the requirements.

After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

They hadn't even started writing it, but it didn't matter; I knew that anything that had that song in it would be beautiful.

We have everything here a scarecrow could want, the fall harvest, the beauty of the changing colors, apple cider, pumpkins and cornstalks.

Miss Merman is a great broad...that is, she's a great Broadway star.