Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart was an American actress and swing singer whose career moved from New York nightclubs and radio into Hollywood films. Born in Bardwell, Kentucky, she moved to Brooklyn during childhood. She began singing professionally at sixteen, toured with Jerry Livingston's orchestra, and was selected to replace Marion Hutton in Glenn Miller's band. She was a radio soloist, and after a Copacabana engagement signed with 20th Century Fox. Her screen debut came with Doll Face (1945), and she went on to Johnny Comes Flying Home, I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now, and Are You with It?. She was also in the Broadway musical Park Avenue between 1946 and 1947. She was best known for playing Mildred Atkinson in In a Lonely Place (1950), opposite Humphrey Bogart, and she appeared in Convicted (1950). She co-hosted Those Two from 1952 to 1953, acted on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, and retired after Surf Party (1964). Stewart died in 2021.