Editing Martha Scott (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Martha Scott Mel Powell 3.jpg|thumb|upright|Scott with second husband Mel Powell in 1947]]
[[File:Martha Scott Mel Powell 1.jpg|thumb|upright|Gravesite of Martha Scott and husband Mel Powell in Jamesport, Missouri]]
Scott was married twice, first to radio producer and announcer Carleton William Alsop from 1940 to 1946, and then to jazz pianist and composer [[Mel Powell]] from 1946 until his death in 1998.<ref name=LAT92189/> She had one child with Alsop, son Carleton Scott Alsop, and two daughters—Mary Powell Harpel and Kathleen Powell—with her second husband.{{Citation needed |date=February 2022}} 

According to her son, Scott never forgot about her childhood hometown, using the mental image of a Jamesport cemetery in preparation for her Oscar-nominated role in ''Our Town''. Said Alsop, "She told me she used that place as her image because it's so serene and beautiful" and that her deceased McKinley and Scott relatives "became the Gibbs and the Webbs in the play".<ref name="Daviess"/>

A [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]], she supported the campaign of [[Adlai Stevenson II|Adlai Stevenson]] during the [[1952 United States presidential election|1952 presidential election]].<ref>''Motion Picture and Television Magazine'', November 1952, page 33, Ideal Publishers</ref>

Scott died on May 28, 2003, in [[Van Nuys]], Los Angeles, aged 90, from natural causes. She was interred next to Powell in the Masonic Cemetery in her native Jamesport, Missouri.{{cn|date=January 2022}}