Mary Martin Performing Arts Award
Mary Martin was a famous star of stage and screen,
but around here folks think of her first as a favorite
famous native of Weatherford.
The daughter of an attorney and a violin teacher, Mary
began taking voice lessons while still in elementary
school.
Her performance at a club in Los Angeles impressed
a theatrical producer, and he cast her in a play in New
York. That production did not open, but she managed
to land a role in Cole Porter’s “Leave I