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First Name

Martha

Last Name

O`Driscoll

Date of Birth

04 March 1922

Height

Build

Slim

Hair Color

Blonde

Place of Birth

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Star Sign

Pisces

Date of Death

03 November 1998

Place of Death

Ocala, Florida.

Ethnicity

White

Claim to Fame

Li`l Abner (1940)

Nationality

American

Gender

Female

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Wikipedia Text

Martha O'Driscoll (March 4, 1922 � November 3, 1998) was an American film actress from 1937 until 1947. Growing up in Hollywood, Martha and other young actors had to attend school. Few people know that the �Mar� in the famous Hollywood Mar-Ken School was named, in part, after Martha. Her mother was a financial partner in the school, and the school�s director, Mrs. Bessire's, son's name was William Kent Bessire. The two women decided to name the school after their children -- thus the Mar came from MARtha, and the KEN came from KENt. The school continued as a success, attracting many children who were movie stars or competition ice skaters, and others whose parents were in the entertainment industry until the early 1960s.

Couple Profile

Another gorgeous "B" movie blonde who came and went uneventfully in the 40s, the beautiful Martha O`Driscoll started off modeling as a child. Her parents were nonprofessionals. Trained in singing and dancing, she was discovered by choreographer Hermes Pan in a local theater production in Phoenix, which led to unbilled bits in musical movies from 1935. Once she had her foot in the door, she was groomed in more visible parts and began pitching products for Max Factor and Royal Crown Cola, among many others, in magazine ads, while such endorsements promoted her upcoming pictures in return. She attracted film offers from both Paramount and Universal studios in her twelve Hollywood years, which included musicals, silly slapstick and horror films. She appeared as "Daisy Mae" in the first screen version of Li`l Abner (1940) and proved a sexy foil for Abbott & Costello and Olsen & Johnson in their comedy vehicles. She played the pretty prairie flower to a couple of notable western film stars including Tim Holt, and was terrorized by the Wolfman, Dracula AND the Frankenstein Monster in her most notable feature House of Dracula (1945). In 1943, she married a Lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy but they separated ten months later. Following her last film Carnegie Hall (1947) and a final divorce decree from her first marriage, she married a second time to Chicago businessman Arthur Appleton, heir to an industrial empire, and retired completely. She was only 25. In Chicago, she became one of the city`s more civic-minded leaders, an interest which would last for more than four decades. She also served as an executive for many committees, including the Sarah Siddons Society, and on the Board of Directors for a few of her husband`s companies. From time to time, she even appeared in nostalgia conventions. She died in 1998.

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www.imdb.com/name/nm0640930/bio

Role ID

Actor/Actress, Soundtrack

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