Editing Mary Martin (section)

==Personal life==
After Martin's 1936 divorce from Benjamin Hagman, she married Richard Halliday in 1940.<ref name=NYT-1973-03-04-Halliday-obit/> Early in their marriage, he worked as a drama critic for the ''[[New York World-Telegram]]'' and a movie critic for the ''[[New York Daily News]]''.  Eventually, Halliday became producer or co-producer of at least two of Martin's projects.  In the early 1970s, the couple lived, according to his March 1973 obituary in the ''Connecticut Sunday Herald'',<ref name=CT-Sun-Herald-1973-03-04/> "on a vast ranch they own near [[Anápolis]]" in the state of Goiás, Brazil. The ranch was called "Nossa Fazenda Halliday" (Our Halliday Farm). Martin was called Dona Maria by people in the vicinity of the Brazilian ranch.<ref name=CT-Sun-Herald-1973-03-04/>

Cultural scholar [[Lillian Faderman]] wrote that Martin and actress [[Janet Gaynor]] often traveled together along with Halliday and with Gaynor's husband.<ref name=Faderman-Timmons-2006-GayLA/>

Gaynor and her husband discovered Anápolis in 1950, soon after, Martin and her husband visited.<ref name="washingtonpost/1979/girls-brazil">{{cite news |last1=Tuck |first1=Lon |title=The Girls From Brazil |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1979/05/11/the-girls-from-brazil/b6a58406-906c-4217-9bb5-c57dfc5d15c8/ |access-date=30 April 2023 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=11 May 1979}}</ref> Martin and [[Janet Gaynor]] had adjoining ranches near [[Anápolis]], [[Goiás]], [[Brazil]].<ref name="nytimes/1971/martin-brazil">{{cite news |title=Mary Martin's Life Off Broadway In Brazil |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/04/archives/mary-martins-life-off-broadway-in-brazil.html |access-date=30 April 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=4 April 1971}}</ref>

On the evening of September 5, 1982, Martin, Janet Gaynor, Gaynor's husband Paul Gregory, and Martin's manager Ben Washer were involved in a serious car crash in [[San Francisco]].<ref name=Eugene-1982-09-07-RegGrd/><ref name=UPI-1982-09-07-LodiNwsStl/>
A van ran a red light at the corner of [[California Street (San Francisco)|California]] and Franklin streets and crashed into the Luxor taxicab in which the group was riding, knocking it into a tree. Washer was killed, Martin sustained two broken ribs and a broken pelvis, and Gaynor's husband suffered two broken legs. Gaynor sustained several serious injuries.<ref name=Eugene-1982-09-07-RegGrd/><ref name=UPI-1982-09-07-LodiNwsStl/> The driver of the van was arrested on two counts of felony drunk driving, reckless driving, speeding, running a red light, and [[vehicular homicide]]. On March 15, 1983, he was found guilty of drunk driving and vehicular homicide and was sentenced to three years in prison. Gaynor died two years later from complications from her injuries.<ref name=Time-1982-09-20-hsptzd/><ref name=Carter-1982-10-18-Time/>

Martin was a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] and supported [[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
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Martin's sexuality has long been a topic of debate.<ref name=DesireInEvidence>" Desire in evidence", by Stacy Wolf, in ''[[Text and Performance Quarterly]]''; vol. 17, no. 4 (1997); DOI: 10.1080/10462939709366198</ref><ref name=CUNY>[https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1140&context=clags_pubs Passing Performances: Conference Opens Closet of American Theatre]; by James Wilson; in ''CLAGSNews'' vol. 9, no. 1 (Winter 1999); "Why does it matter if Mary Martin, the sweetheart of the American musical theatre, was most likely bisexual?"</ref> In 1979, [[Patsy Kelly]] told [[Boze Hadleigh]] that Martin was a lesbian.<ref name=Hadleigh>[https://archive.org/details/hollywoodlesbian0000hadl/page/62/mode/2up ''Hollywood Lesbians''], by [[Boze Hadleigh]]; p. 62; published 1994 by [[Barricade Books]]; "PK: But it figures why certain actresses - the sisterhood? - want to be Peter Pan. Gals like Mary Martin and Jean Arthur. They want to be boys. BH: You mean because Martin and Arthur are lesbians. PK: In a nutshell."</ref> In 2016, biographer David Kaufman stated that Halliday served as "[Martin's] husband, her best friend, her gay/straight 'cover,'" <ref name=USAToday>[https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2016/07/12/some-enchanted-evenings-the-glittering-life-and-times-of-mary-martin-book-review/86951634/ Remembering Mary Martin, the girl who could fly], by Elysa Gardner, in ''[[USA Today]]''; published July 12, 2016; retrieved May 18, 2023</ref> while in 2019, ''[[The Advocate (magazine)|The Advocate]]'' stated that Martin "simply [was the subject of] a lifetime of [[lavender marriage|lavender]] rumors."<ref name=Advocate>[https://www.advocate.com/slideshow/2019/1/16/18-photos-carol-channing-and-her-many-lgb-friends  18 Photos of Carol Channing and Her Many LGB Friends], by Christopher Harrity; at ''[[The Advocate (magazine)|The Advocate]]''; published January 16, 2019; retrieved May 18, 2023</ref>

===Death===
[[File:Peter Pan statue, Weatherford, TX IMG 6476.JPG|thumb|[[Peter Pan]] statue in Martin's hometown of [[Weatherford, Texas|Weatherford]] in [[Parker County, Texas|Parker County]], Texas]]

Martin died of cancer at age 76 at her home in Rancho Mirage, California, on November 3, 1990.<ref name=Gussow-1990-11-05-NYTimes/><ref name=Time-0-9171-949599-00/>
She is buried in City Greenwood Cemetery in Weatherford, Texas.<ref name=WMF98G-Mary-Martin-cemetary/>