Mary Martin's SOUND OF MUSIC Tony Award Bought at Auction

According to Deadline, Mary Martin's 1960 Tony Award, which she earned for her performance in The Sound of Music, was purchased at auction today for $35,000. The trophy (which was one of four that she earned throughout her career onstage) came Boston's RR Auction as a part of the estate of Martin's son, Larry Hagman, who passed away in 2012 from complications of acute myeloid leukemia.

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Martin made her Broadway debut in Cole Porter's Leave It to Me!, which opened in November 1938. She is known for appearing on Broadway in South Pacific, as nurse Nellie Forbush. Her performance was called "memorable...funny and poignant in turns", and she earned her second Tony Award, having previously taken home a special award in 1948.

Her next major success was in the role of Peter in the Broadway production of Peter Pan in October 1954, with Martin winning the Tony Award. Martin opened on Broadway in The Sound of Music as Maria on November 16, 1959, and stayed in the show until October 1961. In 1966 she appeared on Broadway in the two-person musical I Do! I Do! with Robert Preston. She passed away from colorectal cancer in 1990 at the age of 76.