Tony Martin (a Christmas Day baby) - real name, Alvin Morris - was a big-time vocalist at Twentieth-Century Fox studios.
He did many production numbers in films while gorgeous girls walked down staircases. He had his own band at high school called The Red Peppers.
Daryl F Zanuck contracted him to Fox studios in the Thirties and he was a vocalist on the George Burns and Gracie Allen radio show. He married Alice Faye in 1937 and was divorced in March 1941.
In 1954, he guested on the Jack Benny show in a special one-off band - himself on clarinet, Fred McMurray on tenor saxophone, Dick Powell on cornet, Dan Dailey on piano and Kirk Douglas on banjo - beat that if you can. Big stars in their own right, every one of them.
Tony is still alive today - I wonder if he talks to Artie Shaw?
-Gordon Dean, St Lukes Road, Brighton
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