Tony Martin

Tony Martin
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Tony Martin
Film: South side of the 6400 block of Hollywood Boulevard
Tony Martin
Music: North side of the 6300 block of Hollywood Boulevard
Tony Martin
TV: West side of the 1700 block of Vine Street
Tony Martin
Radio: East side of the 1700 block of Vine Street
Actor | Singer
Born Alvin Morris on Dec. 25, 1913 in Oakland, CA
Died July 27, 2012 in West Hollywood, CA

Tony Martin first gained attention in movie musicals in the 1930s and had an enduring career as a romantic crooner.

Although he enjoyed a successful film career, Martin was best known as a singer whose vocal power and easy style made standards out of such tunes as "More," "There’s No Tomorrow," "South of the Border,” “To Each His Own,” “It’s Magic,” “I Get Ideas,” “Stranger in Paradise,” “Do I Love You (Because You’re Beautiful),” “You Stepped Out of a Dream,” “Let’s Face the Music and Dance, “Tenement Symphony” and many others.

He was so identified with Cole Porter’s "Begin the Beguine” that Times jazz critic Leonard Feather once described the song as Martin’s "virtual mirror image."

Martin described his style this way in an interview with The Times in 1960: “I think I sound like a fella who’s always making a plea through his music. Sort of a plea of sincerity.” He told another interviewer, “With every song, I aim for the bleachers.”

— Claudia Luther for the Los Angeles Times

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