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.
