Tony Martin, one of the great names of singers, actors from the golden age of Hollywood musicals, has died. He was 98.
Martin, who toured for years with his wife Charisse, dancer and actress CyD, who died of natural causes Friday at home in Los Angeles, his former manager, Stan Schneider, told the Times.
It appeared in over 30 films, most memorable, like a thief in contrast with Commissioner Peter Lorre, in 1948, the elegant "Casbah", a movie musical that Martin helped transform into a star.
Twice, songs sung on screen by Martin received Oscar nominations: "To every man there is a woman" of the "Casbah" and "E" A blue world "from the 1940 film" The music my heart. "
Suffered as a singer of romantic ballads, continuing to play with them on stage in his 90 years.
With his powerful voice and captivating style, Martin was enormously popular in late 1930 to 1950 as a singer who has contributed to the norms of songs like "Stranger in Paradise", "La Vie en Rose," "fools fall in love A "," I see you in my dreams "and many others.
Although dozens of singers recorded Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine," Martin was so identified with that sometimes the jazz critic Leonard Feather old, once described the song as Martin in "virtual mirror".
"Martin recalls the time when the hearts used in the sleeves," wrote the pen in an analysis by The Times in 1970, a local of local actions. "Let the emotions all the time, reaching a crescendo of triplet, supported by a once in a lifetime" and singing "I Am in Love," as if it returns to Rita Hayworth in a tight close-ups, "in reference The star in the glamorous with whom he shared the big screen - and regularly escorted by the city.
His tenor voice earned him roles in films like the 1936 musical "Parade of the Boar," with Judy Garland and Betty Grable and the saga of "Banjo on My Knee" with Barbara Stanwyck river. Also co-starred in 1941 is extravagantly choreographed "Ziegfeld Girl," a serenade Garland, Hedy Lamarr and Lana Turner in "You walk in a dream."
In early 1960, the musical and film career as a singer was singing, and began traveling with Charisse in a cabaret act. He pulled a treasure of songs like "I Get Ideas" and "E" magic ", and his wife danced.
"For him, walking in a local ground is simple and natural as going to the kitchen for a glass of water," said Charisse in "The Two of Us", the joint autobiography with Martin wrote in 1976.
The couple marked 60 years of marriage in 2008, when he died at 86 years. A free-Martin, then 94, to pain, while playing live, and then said.
Although no longer a Belter, the rich timbre of his voice was "strikingly similar to what was in 1940 and '50," according to a 2009 New York Times review of a commitment for five nights in a club Night in New York.
Triggered by his pianist, 95 years, Martin sang versions of "fully contained" the songs associated with contemporaries such as Bing Crosby ("I Surrender, Dear") and "there is no tomorrow," said Martin, who be given to him by Perry Como, in its revised version.
Martin saw his style of performance as the heart, telling the Times 1960. "I think I look like a guy who always make a call through his music a sort of declaration of sincerity."
Alvin Morris was taken December 25, 1913, in San Francisco, according to birth records. His parents, Edward and Hattie Morris, were Jewish immigrants from Poland, who divorced when he was young, and he regarded his stepfather, a tailor, Myer Myers, his father.
He grew up in Oakland, took the saxophone after his grandmother gave him one when he was 10. The instrument - and later her singing - were "my passport out of poverty," he said.
In high school, he formed his first band, and after graduation he spent two years at Santa Maria College in Moraga, California, but he left to devote himself to music.
For several years he played and sang with bands in San Francisco, including the Orchestra of Girona Tom. When the legendary head of MGM studios, Louis B. Mayer listened to the radio, has led Martin to Hollywood in 1934 for a hearing.
05:56 | 0
comments
