Editing Martha Scott (section)

==Career==
===Stage===
[[File:Craven-Scott-Craven-Our-Town.jpg|thumb|[[Frank Craven]], Martha Scott and [[John Craven (actor)|John Craven]] in the original Broadway production of ''[[Our Town]]'' (1938)]]
Scott received a career boost right out of college, when she appeared with the Globe Theatre Troupe in a series of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] productions at the [[Century of Progress]] world's fair in Chicago in 1934.<ref name=Anchora/> Following that, she moved to New York City, where she found steady work both in stock stage productions and radio dramas. In 1938, she made her Broadway debut in the original staging of [[Thornton Wilder]]'s play ''[[Our Town]]'' as Emily Webb, the tragic young woman who dies in childbirth.<ref name="Breaking"/>

===Film===
[[File:Martha Scott as Yochabel in The Ten Commandments trailer.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Scott as [[Moses]]' mother, [[Jochebed|Yochabel]], in ''[[The Ten Commandments (1956 film)|The Ten Commandments]]'' (1956)]]
Two years later, Scott reprised the role of Emily in her film debut when ''[[Our Town (1940 film)|Our Town]]'' was made into a movie. Her critically acclaimed performance earned her an Academy Award nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]].

Scott found steady movie work for the next four decades, appearing in major epics such as ''The Ten Commandments'', ''Ben-Hur'', ''[[The Desperate Hours (1955 film)|The Desperate Hours]]'', and ''[[Airport 1975]]''. [[Charlton Heston]] was a frequent co-star with Scott on both stage and screen. As she told an interviewer in 1988, "I played his mother twice and his wife twice. I was his mother in ''Ben Hur'' and ''The Ten Commandments''. I was his wife on the stage in New York in ''Design for a Stained Glass Window'' and ''The Tumbler in London''."<ref name="Breaking"/>

===Producer===
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In 1968, Scott joined [[Henry Fonda]] and [[Robert Ryan]] in forming a theatrical production company called the Plumstead Playhouse.<ref name=ArcTrib/> It later became the Plumstead Theatre Company and moved to Los Angeles. The company produced ''[[First Monday in October]]'', both on stage and on film. Scott co-produced both versions. Her last production was ''[[Twelve Angry Men (play)|Twelve Angry Men]]'', which was performed at the Henry Fonda Theatre in Hollywood, California.

===Television===
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Scott began appearing in TV roles in the medium's early days. On November 2, 1950, she starred in "The Cut Glass Bowl" on ''[[The Nash Airflyte Theater]]'',<ref>{{cite news |title=Television |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75427679/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle/ |access-date=April 9, 2021 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=November 2, 1950 |page=27|via = [[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> followed by several guest appearances on ''[[Robert Montgomery Presents]]'' and other shows of television's "golden age", including two episodes of ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]''. This pattern of guest roles continued through the 1960s with appearances on ''[[Route 66 (TV series)|Route 66]]'', ''[[Ironside (TV series)|Ironside]]'', and ''[[The Courtship of Eddie's Father (TV series)|The Courtship of Eddie's Father]]'', among others. In the mid-1950s, Scott was the narrator for ''[[Modern Romances]]'', an afternoon program on [[NBC]]-TV.<ref name=KokoTrib/>

Scott was also a frequent TV guest star in the 1970s. She had recurring roles as [[Bob Newhart]]'s mother on ''[[The Bob Newhart Show]]'', the mother of Colonel Steve Austin ([[Lee Majors]]) on both ''[[The Six Million Dollar Man]]'' and ''[[The Bionic Woman]]'', as well as Patricia Shepard, [[Sue Ellen Ewing|Sue Ellen]] and [[Kristin Shepard|Kristin]]'s mother on ''[[Dallas (TV series)|Dallas]]'' during its early years and later during the 1986 season.  Scott was cast in single-episode guest appearances on several hit shows of the era, such as ''[[The Sandy Duncan Show]]'', ''[[List of Columbo episodes#Season 4|Columbo: Playback]]'' (1975), ''[[The Mod Squad]]'', ''[[Marcus Welby, M.D.]]'', and ''[[The Love Boat]]''. She played the role of Jennifer Talbot, Terri Brock's nasty grandmother, on ''[[General Hospital]]'' for six months (1986–1987), which ended when her character was murdered and stuffed in a drain pipe.

In the 1980s, she had a regular role on the short-lived series ''[[Secrets of Midland Heights]]'' and appeared in several television movies and in single episodes of shows such as ''[[Magnum, P.I.]]'', ''[[The Paper Chase (TV series)|The Paper Chase]]'', and ''[[Highway to Heaven]]''. In the late 1980 she costarred with [[Jeffrey Lynn]] in an episode of ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'', which was a direct sequel to their 1949 feature film ''[[Strange Bargain]]''. Scott's final acting role on television was in 1990 in the movie ''Daughter of the Streets''.