THR has reported that actress Martha Stewart died earlier in the week at the age of 98, she was in 'Daisy Kenyon' and 'In a Lonely Place':
Martha Stewart Dead: 'Daisy Kenyon,' 'In a Lonely Place' Actress Was 98 | Hollywood Reporter
Martha Stewart Dead: 'Daisy Kenyon,' 'In a Lonely Place' Actress Was 98 | Hollywood Reporter
2/21/2021
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 in Park 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.
Stewart played a friend of Crawford's artist character in Otto Preminger's Daisy Kenyon (1947), and in Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place (1950), she portrayed the impressionable hat check girl whom Bogart's washed-up screenwriter is suspected of murdering.