Mom Heads Home
Whether a nurse or, more typically, someone’s mom, over a fifty year plus career, gifted actress Nan Martin had a reputation truly bringing her characters to life. Famously, as the stuck up mother in “Goodbye Columbus,” even her daughter in the film, Ali MacGraw thought Martin just didn’t like her. In fact, MacGraw later wrote, Martin was just staying in character.
In addition to dozens of television and film roles, Martin spent much of her time on the boards, and was nominated for a Tony in the 1950s, and was a regular in New York’s Shakespeare in the Park series during the 1960s.
Martin died at her Malibu home at age 82. She had suffered from emphysema.
