Martha-Bryan Allen (April , â€" July , ) was an American s stage
actress.Martha-Bryan Allen (also known as Martha Bryan-Allen), was
born on April , , to Bryan H. and Rebecca D. Allen of Louisville,
Kentucky. Her father was the treasurer of a local electric company.
Allen's sister Elizabeth, also an actress, was the first wife of film
star Robert Montgomery and the mother of Bewitched's Elizabeth
Montgomery.Allen attended classes at the American Academy of Dramatic
Arts in New York City before making her Broadway debut on January , ,
playing Angelica in Leonid Andreyev's He Who Gets Slapped. Two months
later she played the envoy's daughter in Bernard Shaw's Back to
Methuselah, and following year, Essie in another Bernard Shaw
production, The Devil's Disciple. She played Lucy Blake in Gypsy Jim,
a three-act play by Oscar Hammerstein and Milton Herbert Gropper,
Appolonia Lee in Sophie Treadwell's O, Nightingale, and Myrtle Carey
in The Carolinian by Rafael Sabatini and J. Harold Terry. In Allen
was chosen to play the title role in John B. Hymer and Le Roy Clemens'
Aloma of the South Seas, but was replaced by Vivienne Osborne shortly
before the play's New York debut. By the year's end she would find
success playing the circus entertainer Dora in René Fauchois' hit
play, The Monkey Talks.Shortly after her marriage in to Lewis Arthur
Cushman, Jr. (â€"), Allen chose to retire from the stage. Cushman was
the founder of the American Bakeries Company, whose genesis was
Cushman Bakeries, a company started by his father.
actress.Martha-Bryan Allen (also known as Martha Bryan-Allen), was
born on April , , to Bryan H. and Rebecca D. Allen of Louisville,
Kentucky. Her father was the treasurer of a local electric company.
Allen's sister Elizabeth, also an actress, was the first wife of film
star Robert Montgomery and the mother of Bewitched's Elizabeth
Montgomery.Allen attended classes at the American Academy of Dramatic
Arts in New York City before making her Broadway debut on January , ,
playing Angelica in Leonid Andreyev's He Who Gets Slapped. Two months
later she played the envoy's daughter in Bernard Shaw's Back to
Methuselah, and following year, Essie in another Bernard Shaw
production, The Devil's Disciple. She played Lucy Blake in Gypsy Jim,
a three-act play by Oscar Hammerstein and Milton Herbert Gropper,
Appolonia Lee in Sophie Treadwell's O, Nightingale, and Myrtle Carey
in The Carolinian by Rafael Sabatini and J. Harold Terry. In Allen
was chosen to play the title role in John B. Hymer and Le Roy Clemens'
Aloma of the South Seas, but was replaced by Vivienne Osborne shortly
before the play's New York debut. By the year's end she would find
success playing the circus entertainer Dora in René Fauchois' hit
play, The Monkey Talks.Shortly after her marriage in to Lewis Arthur
Cushman, Jr. (â€"), Allen chose to retire from the stage. Cushman was
the founder of the American Bakeries Company, whose genesis was
Cushman Bakeries, a company started by his father.
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