Editing Martha Scott

{{short description|American actress (1912–2003)}}
{{for|the politician|Martha G. Scott}}
{{Infobox person
| image         = Martha Scott 1942.JPG
| caption       = Scott in 1942
| birth_name    = Martha Ellen Scott
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1912|09|22}}
| birth_place   = [[Jamesport, Missouri]], U.S.
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|2003|05|28|1912|09|22}}
| death_place   = [[Los Angeles, California]], U.S.
| resting_place = Masonic Cemetery
| education    = [[University of Michigan]] (BA)
| occupation    = Actress
| years_active  = 1940–1990
| spouse        = {{ubl|{{marriage|Carlton Alsop|1940|1946|end=divorced}}|{{marriage|[[Mel Powell]]|1946|1998|end=died}}}}
| children      = 3
}}

'''Martha Ellen Scott''' (September 22, 1912 – May 28, 2003) was an American actress.  She was featured in major films such as [[Cecil B. DeMille|Cecil B. DeMille’s]] ''[[The Ten Commandments (1956 film)|The Ten Commandments]]'' (1956), and [[William Wyler]]'s ''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]'' (1959).  Martha played the mother of [[Charlton Heston]]'s character in both films. She originated the role of Emily Webb in [[Thornton Wilder]]'s ''[[Our Town]]'' on Broadway in 1938, and later recreated the role in the [[Our Town (1940 film)|1940 film version.  In the 1940 version]] , she was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]].<ref name=Thise2008/>

==Early life==
Scott was born in [[Jamesport, Missouri|Jamesport, Missouri.]]   She was the daughter of Letha (née McKinley) and Walter Alva Scott.  Walter was an engineer and garage owner.<ref name=NYTobit/> Her mother was a second cousin of U.S. President [[William McKinley]].<ref name=NYTobit/> The Scott family remained in Jamesport until Martha was 13 years old.  At that time, they moved to Kansas City, Missouri.  Eventually , they relocated in Detroit, Michigan.<ref name="Daviess"/> Scott became interested in acting while in high school.  She furthered this interest by attending the University of Michigan.  Her accolades included a teaching certificate, as well as accomplishing a Bachelor of Arts degree.  <ref name=HavreDN/> Including drama in 1934.<ref name="Daviess"/>

==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''.

==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}}

==Honors==
For her contribution in the theatre, Scott has a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 6126 Hollywood Boulevard.<ref name=HWoF/>

==Filmography==

===Film===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1936
|''[[Lloyds of London (film)|Lloyds of London]]''
|Court room accuser
|Uncredited
|-
|1940
|''[[Our Town (1940 film)|Our Town]]''
|Emily Webb
|
|-
|1940
|''{{sortname|The|Howards of Virginia}}''
|Jane Peyton-Howard
|
|-
|1941
|''[[Cheers for Miss Bishop]]''
|Ella Bishop
|
|-
|1941
|''[[They Dare Not Love]]''
|Marta Keller
|
|-
|1941
|''[[One Foot in Heaven]]''
|Hope Morris Spence
|
|-
|1943
|''[[Stage Door Canteen (film)|Stage Door Canteen]]''
|Martha Scott
|
|-
|1943
|''[[Hi Diddle Diddle]]''
|Janie Prescott Phyffe
|
|-
|1943
|''[[In Old Oklahoma]]''
|Catherine Elizabeth Allen
|Alternate title: "War of the Wildcats"
|-
|1947
|''[[So Well Remembered]]''
|Olivia
|
|-
|1949
|''[[Strange Bargain]]''
|Georgia Wilson
|
|-
|1951
|''[[When I Grow Up (film)|When I Grow Up]]''
|Mother Reed (1890's)
|
|-
|1955
|''{{sortname|The|Desperate Hours|The Desperate Hours (1955 film)}}''
|Ellie Hilliard
|
|-
|1956
|''{{sortname|The|Ten Commandments|The Ten Commandments (1956 film)}}''
|Yochabel
|-
|1957
|''[[Eighteen and Anxious]]''
|Lottie Graham
|
|-
|1957
|''[[Sayonara]]''
|Mrs. Webster
|
|-
|1959
|''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]''
|Miriam
|
|-
|1973
|''[[Charlotte's Web (1973 film)|Charlotte's Web]]''
|Mrs. Arable (age 60)
|Voice
|-
|1974
|''[[Airport 1975]]''
|Sister Beatrice
|
|-
|1977
|''{{sortname|The|Turning Point|The Turning Point (1977 film)}}''
|Adelaide
|
|-
|1981
|''[[First Monday in October (film)|First Monday in October]]''
|
|Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
|-
|1988
|''[[Doin' Time on Planet Earth]]''
|Virginia Camalier
|
|-
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1950
|''{{sortname|The|Nash Airflyte Theater}}''
|
|Season 1 Episode 7: "The Cut Glass Bowl"
|-
|1950–1957
|''[[Robert Montgomery Presents]]''
|Ellen Scott / Julia Brougham / Madeleine / Marietta Jackson
|5 episodes
|-
|1951
|''[[Lux Video Theatre]]''
|Esmerelda
|Season 1 Episode 19: "The Choir Rehearsal"
|-
|1951
|''[[Lights Out (1949 TV series)|Lights Out]]''
|Phyllis
|Season 3 Episode 39: "The Cat's Cradle"
|-
|1951
|''{{sortname|The|Clock|The Clock (TV series)}}''
|
|Season 3 Episode 1: "Journey Across the River"
|-
|1951
|''[[Somerset Maugham TV Theatre]]''
|Martha Jones
|2 episodes
|-
|1952
|''[[Betty Crocker Star Matinee]]''
|
|Season 1 Episode 20: "Woman in His Life"
|-
|1952
|''[[Armstrong Circle Theatre]]''
|
|Season 2 Episode 29: "Way of Courage"
|-
|1953
|''{{sortname|The|Web|The Web (1950 TV series)}}''
|Harriet
|Season 3 Episode 37: "Dear Sister"
|-
|1953
|''{{sortname|The|Revlon Mirror Theater}}''
|
|Season 1 Episode 2: "Salt of the Earth"
|-
|1953
|''[[Willys Theatre Presenting Ben Hecht's Tales of the City]]''
|
|Season 1 Episode 4: "Episode #1.4"
|-
|1953
|''[[Medallion Theatre]]''
|
|Season 1 Episode 9: "Scent of the Roses"
|-
|1953
|''[[Suspense (radio drama)|Suspense]]''
|
|Season 6 Episode 1: "The Sister"
|-
|1954
|''[[Center Stage (TV series)|Center Stage]]''
|
|Season 1 Episode 6: "The Desdemona Murder Case"
|-
|1955
|''[[TV Reader's Digest]]''
|Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
|Season 1 Episode 3: "Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson"
|-
|1956
|''[[Kraft Television Theatre]]''
|Joanna
|Season 9 Episode 43: "Prairie Night"
|-
|1956–1957
|''[[Goodyear Television Playhouse]]''
|Kate Douglas
|2 episodes
|-
|1957
|''[[Modern Romances]]''
|Narrator
|Episode: "The Misguided Man: Part 5"
|-
|1958
|''[[Matinee Theater]]''
|
|Season 3 Episode 150: "The Gardenia Bush"
|-
|1959
|''[[Playhouse 90]]''
|Mrs. Austin
|Season 3 Episode 25: "A Trip to Paradise"
|-
|1959
|''[[Markham (TV series)|Markham]]''
|Marie Vaughn
|Season 1 Episode 19: "Grave and Present Danger"
|-
|1959
|''{{sortname|The|United States Steel Hour}}''
|Grace Sullivan
|Season 7 Episode 3: "Rachel's Summer"
|-
|1960
|''[[New Comedy Showcase]]''
|Kit Tyler
|Season 1 Episode 1: "You're Only Young Twice"
|-
|1961
|''{{sortname|The|Play of the Week}}''
|Clara
|Season 2 Episode 26: "The Wooden Dish"
|-
|1961–1962
|''[[Route 66 (TV series)|Route 66]]''
|Helen Watson / Ruth O'Brien
|2 episodes
|-
|1962
|''[[Follow the Sun (TV series)|Follow the Sun]]''
|Betty Stover
|Season 1 Episode 19: "Ghost Story"
|-
|1963
|''{{sortname|The|DuPont Show of the Week}}''
|Helen Adams
|Season 2 Episode 11: "Two Faces of Treason"
|-
|1963
|''{{sortname|The|Nurses|The Nurses (TV series)}}''
|Edith Arnold
|Season 1 Episode 26: "A Dark World"
|-
|1963
|''{{sortname|The|Greatest Show on Earth|The Greatest Show on Earth (TV series)}}''
|Claire Kyle
|Season 1 Episode 3: "No Middle Ground for Harry Kyle"
|-
|1965
|''[[Slattery's People]]''
|Fran Stevens
|Season 2 Episode 10: "Color Him Red"
|-
|1967
|''[[Cimarron Strip]]''
|Mrs. Kihlgren
|Season 1 Episode 9: "The Search"
|-
|1967
|''{{sortname|The|F.B.I.|The F.B.I. (TV series)}}''
|Katharine Lamberth
|Season 3 Episode 8: "Overload"
|-
|1969
|''[[Ironside (1967 TV series)|Ironside]]''
|Francine Miller
|Season 2 Episode 18: "The Prophecy"
|-
|1970
|''{{sortname|The|Courtship of Eddie's Father|The Courtship of Eddie's Father (TV series)}}''
|Grandmother
|Season 1 Episode 21: "Guardian for Eddie"
|-
|1970
|''[[Paris 7000]]''
|Amy Westerly
|Season 1 Episode 9: "The Last Grand Tour"
|-
|1971
|''[[Longstreet (TV series)|Longstreet]]''
|Louisa De Carie
|Season 1 Episode 4: "So, Who's Fred Hornbeck?"
|-
|1971
|''Lemonade''
|Mabel
|TV Movie
|-
|1972
|''Honeymoon Suite''
|
|Season 1 Episode 0: "First Pilot"
|-
|1972
|''{{sortname|The|Sandy Duncan Show}}''
|Harriet
|Season 1 Episode 1: "Hooray for Harriet"
|-
|1972
|''{{sortname|The|Delphi Bureau}}''
|Martha
|Season 1 Episode 1: "The Deadly Little Errand"
|-
|1972–1977
|''{{sortname|The|Bob Newhart Show}}''
|Mrs. Martha Hartley
|7 episodes
|-
|1973
|''{{sortname|The|Devil's Daughter|The Devil's Daughter (1973 film)}}''
|Mrs. Stone
|TV Movie
|-
|1973
|''{{sortname|The|Mod Squad}}''
|Belle Fuller
|Season 5 Episode 19: "Put Out the Welcome Mat for Death"
|-
|1973
|''[[Marcus Welby, M.D.]]''
|Mrs. Loring
|Season 4 Episode 22: "[[The Other Martin Loring]]"
|-
|1973
|''[[Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law]]''
|Mildred
|Season 3 Episode 8: "The Sin of Susan Gentry"
|-
|1974
|''Sorority Kill''
|House Mother
|TV Movie
|-
|1974
|''{{sortname|The|Man from Independence}}''
|Mamma Truman
|TV Movie
|-
|1974
|''[[Police Story (1973 TV series)|Police Story]]''
|Mary Ryan
|Season 1 Episode 19: "Fingerprint"
|-
|1974
|''[[Thursday's Game]]''
|Mrs. Reynolds
|TV Movie
|-
|1974
|''Murder in the First Person Singular''
|Mrs. Emerson
|TV Movie
|-
|1974
|''{{sortname|The|Wide World of Mystery|nolink=1}}''
|House Mother / Mrs. Emerson
|2 episodes
|-
|1974
|''[[Police Woman (TV series)|Police Woman]]''
|Mrs. Wadsworth
|Season 1 Episode 3: "Warning: All Wives"
|-
|1974–1975
|''{{sortname|The|Six Million Dollar Man}}''
|Helen Elgin
|3 episodes
|-
|1975
|''{{sortname|The|Abduction of Saint Anne|nolink=1}}''
|Mother Michael
|TV Movie
|-
|1975
|''[[Columbo]]''
|Margaret Midas
|Season 4 Episode 5: "Playback"
|-
|1975
|''{{sortname|The|Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond|nolink=1}}''
|Mumsie
|TV Movie
|-
|1975
|''[[Medical Story]]''
|Miss McDonald
|TV Movie
|-
|1976–1977
|''{{sortname|The|Bionic Woman}}''
|Helen Elgin
|6 episodes
|-
|1978
|''{{sortname|The|Word|The Word (novel)#TV miniseries}}''
|Sarah Randall
|[[Miniseries]]
|-
|1979
|''Charleston''
|Mrs. Farrell-Aunt Louisa
|TV Movie
|-
|1979
|''Married: The First Year''
|Elizabeth Gorey
|2 episodes
|-
|1979
|''{{sortname|The|Love Boat}}''
|Janet Latham
|Season 3 Episode 6: "Gopher's Greatest Hits/The Vacation/One Rose a Day"
|-
|1979–1985
|''[[Dallas (TV series)|Dallas]]''
|Patricia Shepard
|10 episodes (Recurring role)
|-
|1980
|''[[Beulah Land (miniseries)|Beulah Land]]''
|Penelope Pennington
|Miniseries
|-
|1980
|''Father Figure''
|Hilda Wollman
|TV Movie
|-
|1980–1981
|''[[Secrets of Midland Heights]]''
|Margaret Millington
|Series regular
|-
|1983
|''Summer Girl''
|Martina Shelburne
|TV Movie
|-
|1983
|''[[Adam (1983 film)|Adam]]''
|Gram Walsh
|TV Movie
|-
|1983
|''[[Magnum, P.I.]]''
|Jeanie LaSalle
|Season 4 Episode 5: "Limited Engagement"
|-
|1984
|''{{sortname|The|Paper Chase|The Paper Chase (TV series)}}''
|Marion Grey
|Season 2 Episode 13: "Limits"
|-
|1985–1986
|''[[General Hospital]]''
|Jennifer Talbot
|10 episodes
|-
|1985–1987
|''[[Hotel (American TV series)|Hotel]]''
|Estelle / Roz Campbell
|2 episodes
|-
|1986
|''Adam: His Song Continues''
|Gram Walsh
|TV Movie
|-
|1986
|''[[Highway to Heaven]]''
|Laura Swann
|2 episodes
|-
|1987
|''[[Murder, She Wrote]]''
|Georgia Wilson
|Season 3 Episode 21: "The Days Dwindle Down"
|-
|1989
|''Love and Betrayal''
|Ginger
|TV Movie
|-
|1990
|''Daughter of the Streets''
|Sarah
|TV Movie
|-
|}

==Radio appearances==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year !! Program !! Episode/source
|-
| 1941|| ''[[Philip Morris Playhouse]]'' || ''[[Made for Each Other (1939 film)|Made for Each Other]]''<ref name=HburgTel/>
|-
| 1941 || ''[[Lux Radio Theatre]]'' || ''[[Cheers for Miss Bishop]]''
|-
| 1942 || ''[[Lux Radio Theatre]]'' || ''[[One Foot in Heaven]]''<ref>{{cite journal|title=Those Were the Days|journal=Nostalgia Digest|date=Spring 2017|volume=43|issue=2|page=33}}</ref>
|-
| 1948|| ''[[Suspense (radio program)|Suspense]]'' || "Crisis"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.escape-suspense.com/2009/05/suspense-crisis.html|title=Suspense - Crisis|website=Escape and Suspense!|access-date=Mar 10, 2020}}</ref>
|-
| 1949|| ''[[The Great Gildersleeve]]'' ||[[Birthday Party Conflicts]]''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/Otrr_The_Great_Gildersleeve_Singles/The+Great+Gildersleeve+49-04-06+(324)+The+Baby%27s+Birthday+Party+Conflicts.mp3 | title=The Great Gildersleeve - Single Episodes | date=2 January 2020 }}</ref>
|-
| 1953|| ''[[The United States Steel Hour#Theatre Guild on the Air|Theatre Guild on the Air]]'' || ''Kate Fennigate''<ref name=DecDaily/>
|}

==References==
{{reflist|refs=<ref name=Thise2008>{{cite book|last=Thise|first=Mark|title=Hollywood Winners & Losers A to Z|url=https://archive.org/details/hollywoodwinners0000this|url-access=registration|year=2008|publisher=Limelight Editions|isbn=978-0-87910-351-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/hollywoodwinners0000this/page/158 158]}}</ref><ref name=NYTobit>{{cite news|last=Martin|first=Douglas|title=Martha Scott, Original Emily in 'Our Town', Dies at 88|newspaper=New York Times|date=May 31, 2003|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/31/arts/martha-scott-original-emily-in-our-town-dies-at-88.html|access-date=November 12, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Daviess">{{cite web|url=http://www.daviesscountyhistoricalsociety.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=124&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0|title=Oscar nominee Martha Scott of Jamesport|publisher=Daviess County Historical Society|date=April 20, 2004|access-date=August 2, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101216080610/http://daviesscountyhistoricalsociety.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=124&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0|archive-date=December 16, 2010}}</ref>
<ref name=HavreDN>{{cite news|title=B.A. Degree|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2706265/the_havre_daily_news/|newspaper=The Havre Daily News|date=March 24, 1944|page=3|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 28, 2015}}{{Open access}}</ref><ref name=Anchora>{{cite journal|last=Thalman|first=Jane|title=Starring on Broadway, the Career of Martha Scott|journal=[[Delta Gamma#Anchora|Anchora]]|volume=LV|issue=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XqYa2HQsrogC&pg=PA29|date=November 1938|page=29}}</ref><ref name="Breaking">{{cite web|url=http://www.breakingnews.ie/entertainment/kfaukfauaugb|title=Actress Martha Scott Dies, Aged 90|website=Breaking News|date=May 31, 2003|access-date=August 2, 2012}}</ref><ref name=ArcTrib>{{cite news|last1=Scott|first1=Martha|title=1975 Hope: Rebirth of Theatre|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2709307/arcadia_tribune|newspaper=Arcadia Tribune|date=December 26, 1974|page=11|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 28, 2015}}{{Open access}}</ref><ref name=KokoTrib>{{cite news|last1=Mercer|first1=Charles|title=Martha Scott Typifies New TV Gimmick—Narrator|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2706187/the_kokomo_tribune|newspaper=The Kokomo Tribune|date=August 11, 1955|page=57|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 28, 2015}}{{Open access}}</ref><ref name=LAT92189>{{cite web|last=Champlin|first=Charles|author-link=Charles Champlin|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-21-ca-961-story.html|title=Martha Scott Travels from 'Our Town' to Tinseltown|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=September 21, 1989|access-date=August 2, 2012}}</ref><ref name=HWoF>{{cite web|title=Martha Scott|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/martha-scott|department=Hollywood Star Walk|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=November 12, 2015}}</ref><ref name=HburgTel>{{cite news|title=Martha Scott|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2865891/harrisburg_telegraph|newspaper=Harrisburg Telegraph|date=November 1, 1941|page=28|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=July 22, 2015}}{{Open access}}</ref><ref name=DecDaily>{{cite news|last1=Kirby|first1=Walter|title=Better Radio Programs for the Week|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2706063/the_decatur_daily_review|newspaper=The Decatur Daily Review|date=May 24, 1953|page=48|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 28, 2015}}{{Open access}}</ref>}}

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