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WHAT do you know about this Martha Scott? I live here in Hollywood and all I knew about her was that : she broke my heart and ruined my make-up in "Our Town" and Cheers For Miss Bishop" ; she was born, September 22d, on a farm, in the small town of Jamesport, Missouri ; she graduated from the University of Michigan with a teaching certificate for safety, the desire to be an actress for a dream ; she comes from distinguished forebears, her father, Walter Scott, being related to the famed novelist of the same name ; her mother, the former Letha McKinley, is a second cousin of the martyred president, also of the same name. That's all I knew for facts. The rest was hearsay and conjecture.
I'd heard that she is married, that she lives on a
Exclusive pictures of Martha Bcott made at her new ranch home for Scubenland by Schuyler Crail, Warner Bros.
ranch. She is and does. I imagined her hair was tan color, her eyes blue. Wrong. Her hair is gold color. Her eyes are brown. She has a mouth done by a diamond cutter, it is so beautifully and sensitively chiseled. I imagined she was serious, rather on the intellectual side. She is — rather. But there is a picture of her on the piano in her living room that would make Franchot Tone try to date her, if he saw it !
Her husband tells the most amusing anecdote about her. How, one night, he took her to the theater in New York. How she was all decked out in her new, sabledyed muskrat coat, costume jewelry wherever costume jewelry was possible and even where, one would have thought, not possible, and — she wore her glasses which she had mended with manuscript clips !
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Not the wistful actress you know as Martha Scott, but the gay and buoyant girl who goes for garlic, goats, gin rummy, grandmothers, dime-store jewelry — and whose husband says of her, "she is too honest and too sweet for this modern world." You'll love her, too!
By Gladys Hall
Below, Martha Scott with Fredric March in Warners' big new drama of a preacher's life, "One Foot in Heaven."