Mary Martin visited her husband at a mental clinic
Mary Martin visited her husband at a mental clinic
Broadway Star Joined: 1/28/04
Mary Martin visited her husband at a mental clinic#1
Posted: 8/8/16 at 11:31am
Author Steven Gaines has a new book about trying "gay conversion therapy" at Payne Whitney when he was a teen. Among the other patients at the clinic was Richard Halliday, whose wife Mary Martin would regularly come visit, to Gaines' delight. Gaines even describes Halliday going home to "Mother" for a visit, which caused problems.
http://www.out.com/michael-musto/2016/8/08/calvin-klein-biographer-remembers-trying-de-gay-mental-clinic
Broadway Star Joined: 1/28/04
Mary Martin visited her husband at a mental clinic#2
Posted: 8/8/16 at 11:32am
Halliday was there for his own problems, not what Gaines was there for.
Mary Martin visited her husband at a mental clinic#3
Posted: 8/14/16 at 6:39pm
Why aren't more people talking about this?
Mary Martin visited her husband at a mental clinic#4
Posted: 8/14/16 at 8:49pm
Mike Bevel said: "Why aren't more people talking about this? "
Maybe because they are both long dead and we don't care?
Mary Martin visited her husband at a mental clinic#5
Posted: 8/14/16 at 9:46pm
Speak for yourself. I for one found it interesting. Are you saying that as long as a person is long dead (and in this case one of the musical theatre's leading stars) that their personal life is of no interest? I guess you have no plans of seeing the Florence Foster Jenkins film.
Mary Martin visited her husband at a mental clinic#6
Posted: 8/14/16 at 9:52pm
I think Florence Foster Jenkins, as a story to be told on film, is far more interesting to the general public, than Mary Martin's personal life at this point. I'd read the book, though.
Mary Martin visited her husband at a mental clinic#7
Posted: 8/14/16 at 9:58pm
What's fascinating to me is the idea that the (still living) author is describing being somewhere for gay conversion therapy, and then having Mary Martin stop by and if that isn't God saying, "No, you're gay, it's fine," then I don't know what is.
Mary Martin visited her husband at a mental clinic#8
Posted: 8/14/16 at 10:41pm
Demitri2 said: "Speak for yourself. I for one found it interesting. Are you saying that as long as a person is long dead (and in this case one of the musical theatre's leading stars) that their personal life is of no interest? I guess you have no plans of seeing the Florence Foster Jenkins film."
If Meryl gets another SAG Award nomination I will see it in the interest of fairness before voting. Otherwise, your guess is spot on. It looks too cutesy.
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