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I just finished reading "My Heart Belongs" by Mary Martin. Mary was a broadway star who originated the roles of Nellie Forbush in "South Pacific", Peter Pan in the musical version of "Peter Pan", and Maria Von Trapp in "The Sound of Music". Mary's book is the basic autobiography. Although she doesn't give many opinons on things. I did wonder a lot while reading it, if she had any brains at all. She didn't have an opinon on much, I gathered she leaned to be more conservative. She seemed to like Dwight Eisenhower and expresses that she was afraid that her son Larry Hagman (of "Dallas" fame) would turn out to be a "sissy-boy". She seemed to be utterly and totally devoted to her husband and relied on him for eveeeeeeeeerything. I thought her love for him was genuine but she seemed to rely too much that I began to question her ability to think on her own. For instance one day on her way to a performance of "The Sound of Music" she went on her own. Before this incident, her husband Richard, had always gotten her to the theatre where it was playing. Well she was late for the performance so she hopped into a taxi and she realized she didn't even know the name of the theatre it was playing because Richard had always gotten her there.... so she had to ask the cab driver if he knew where "The Sound of Music" was playing...he didn't so she had to find another taxi
Overall I really liked the book and her. She seemed like a very sweet lady.