![]() ![]() The following year Martha first laid eyes on her future husband, producer Hal B. ![]() Thompson had started as a contract player at Universal and had only recently been picked up by MGM. At twenty-three she was seen on the arm of young actor Marshall Thompson at Elizabeth Taylor’s sixteenth birthday party in February 1948, although the two were never an item. Martha’s outstanding beauty soon drew the eye of talent scouts in California. At the end of World War Two he became Judge Advocate with the Fifteenth Army and set up the war crimes trials in Germany. Her father was a Texas state senator and International President of the Lions Club. ![]() The beautiful blonde actress labelled ‘Universal’s answer to Grace Kelly’ (although she initially signed with RKO), hailed from Fort Worth, Texas where she entered this world on August 10, 1924. ![]()
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