Crooner Tony Martin, best known for his romantic ballads and roles in movie musicals in the 1940s and 1950s, has died, according to multiple reports. His manager says Martin passed away peacefully of natural causes on Friday. He was 98. One of the high points of his career was a number staged by Busby Berkeley in MGM’s Ziegfield Girl in 1941, serenading Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr and Lana Turner as they floated down a staircase. Martin also was featured in the 1941 Marx Brothers film The Big Store, in which he played a singer and performed Tenement Symphony, written by his long-time musical director Hal Borne. For a time in the 1950s he was the host of The Tony Martin Show, a 15-minute television variety series. His biggest hits as a singer came in 1950 with There’s No Tomorrow, Stranger In Paradise (1954) and Walk Hand In Hand (1956). He married his first wife...
- 7/31/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
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