Martha Stewart, the actress and singer best known for her supporting turns opposite Joan Crawford in Daisy Kenyon and alongside Humphrey Bogart in In a Lonely Place, has died.
She was 98. Stewart died Wednesday, her daughter Colleen Shelley reported on Twitter. "The original Martha Stewart left us yesterday," she wrote. "She had a new part to play in a movie with all her heavenly friends.
She went off peacefully surrounded by her family and cat." In original Broadway musicals, Stewart appeared in 1946-47 inPark Avenue, written by George S.
Kaufman and Nunnally Johnson, and was a replacement for Vivian Blaine as Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls. When the Frank Loesser production came to London's West End in 1953, she starred in that.
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