Millicent Martin

[Allison]

The IMDB doesn't mention anything about her performing in musicals, but they
generally only focus on movies and television shows....

E!Online says she was in the movie adaption of the musical "Stop the World, I
Want to Get Off" in 1966, but I don't know anything about her role in the
movie, or on stage....

Hope this helps :)

-A

>Hi, folks:
>
>I'm aging myself with this question but I seem to remember that she was in
>musical comedy at one time. I have a feeling that she was a singer and maybe
>appeared on Broadway. Does anyone know?
>
>Best wishes,
>Doug

[newsgroup]

Someone said she was on Golden Girls. You might do a yahoo search and find a
bio on her.

[Ms KnowItAll]

Does Millicent Martin remind anyone of Debbie Reynolds? When I first
saw her on Days I could have sworn it was her.

[cleo]

Yes, I can see how you think that. There are a lot of similarities. I
love Debbie Reynolds!!!

Ms KnowItAll wrote:
>
> Does Millicent Martin remind anyone of Debbie Reynolds? When I first
> saw her on Days I could have sworn it was her.

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[ukband]

Millicent Martin appeared in Anyone Can Whistle in 1964.
http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/9432/sondheim/whistle.html

And also The Crooked Mile, I believe in London.
http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~dumsday/history.htm

She has a few recordings of Sondheim.
http://www.sondheimreview.com/buysondheim.htm

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[TresBonBon]

>Ms KnowItAll wrote:
>>
>> Does Millicent Martin remind anyone of Debbie Reynolds? When I first
>> saw her on Days I could have sworn it was her.
>

Actually, not 'til you mentioned it but now I do. Their mannerisms are very
similar, aren't they? I love Debbie too. I felt so sorry for her when that
rat Eddie Fisher dumped her for Trashabeth Taylor.

Bonbon

[bli...@widomaker.com]

>I'm aging myself with this question but I seem to remember that she was in
>musical comedy at one time. I have a feeling that she was a singer and maybe
>appeared on Broadway. Does anyone know?

Okay, once upon a time, long long ago (sometime during the 1960s), I
used to stay up late to watch The Hollywood Palace, a variety show
presented on Saturday nights. When H.P. was on summer hiatis, the
replacement show was The Picadilly Palace, which featured a young and
energetic singer-dancer-comedienne, Millicent Martin. Anybody else
remember? I *think* it was the Morcambe and Wise show, packaged for
American audiences.

Trying to find info on the program, I blundered onto a television
website (http://www.tv.cream.org/) that catalogued old shows shown in
the UK. In addition to appearing on the aforementioned, and the
British version of That Was the Week That Was, she was also in a 1981
BBC comedy called Partners, where, "DEREK WARING and MILLICENT "TW3"
MARTIN are the estranged owners of a bathroom furniture factory."
(sounds *different*...)

With her forays into movies, television and the stage (2 Tony
nominations), Ms. Martin has had an interesting career!

[Rebecca]

Doug Shales wrote:

> >Subject: Re: Millicent Martin
> >From: bli...@widomaker.com
> >Date: 3/4/00 1:50 AM Eastern Standard Time

>
> >Okay, once upon a time, long long ago (sometime during the 1960s), I
> >used to stay up late to watch The Hollywood Palace, a variety show
> >presented on Saturday nights. When H.P. was on summer hiatis, the
> >replacement show was The Picadilly Palace, which featured a young and
> >energetic singer-dancer-comedienne, Millicent Martin. Anybody else
> >remember? I *think* it was the Morcambe and Wise show, packaged for
> >American audiences.
>

> Thank you for the information and I vaguely remember this as well. Someone
> also wrote that she was in the Anthony Newley musical, "Stop The World, I Want
> To Get Off." I think I had a crush on her back then, and I did think she was
> a singer. They used to call people like that a "triple threat" because the
> performers could sing, dance and act, all at the same time. :-) That's kind
> of rare now-a-days.
>
> Best wishes,
> Doug Shales

I'm not positive, but I thought a "triple threat" was someone who couldn't sing,
act, or dance. I remember in "Singin' In The Rain" after the song "Good Morning",
the three of them are sitting around talking about making "The Dueling Cavalier"
into a musical, but there's one problem: "Lina... she can't sing, she can't act,
and she can't dance, the triple threat".

I would love to see Millicent Martin in those shows! She's wonderful; I'll bet
she was quite a looker in her day... not that she isn't still beautiful! :-)

Becky