Sadie Martinot Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Sadie Martinot Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Sadie Martinot (August , â€" May , ) was an American actress and

soprano singer who performed on stage in dramas, musical comedy and

comic opera. Her career began at the age fifteen as Cupid in Ixion;

or, the Man at the Wheel and, but for a few years absence, she

remained active on stage in America and abroad until . She was the

first to play Hebe in an American production of H.M.S. Pinafore, the

first Katrina in the comic opera Rip Van Winkle and the first to play

the title role in an English adaptation of the operetta Nanon. Late in

her life Martinot would fall victim to mental illness and spend her

last few years confined to psychiatric institutions.She was born Sarah

Frances Marie Martinot in New York City on December , , the daughter

of William Alexander and Mary Lydia (née Randall) Martinot. Her

father was the son of John P. Martinot, a French immigrant who founded

a successful wholesale firm dealing in imported silk products. William

Martinot worked for his father's firm and had served in the American

Civil War and later as a New York City police detective who once

brought charges of corruption against a NYPD police captain. Her

mother was said to be of the family that once owned Randall's Island

in Manhattan. Before taking to the stage at , Martinot was educated at

area public schools and the Ursuline Convent in New Rochelle, New

York. Some accounts have her birth name as Sally Martin or Sally

Eagan, the daughter of an Irish-American single mother who worked hard

to ensure her a good education. In March Martinot stated to the press

that, though she would have been proud to have been raised under such

a circumstance, she in fact was the daughter of Mary and William

Alexander Martinot.In Martinot joined Manhattan's Eagle Theatre as a

$-a-week walk-on player. Her debut came about in late August of that

year when an injury prevented chorus girl Maude Branscombe from

performing Cupid in that evening's performance of F. C. Burnand's

Ixion. The next year she joined Adah Richmond's company at $ a-week,

touring in Chow Chow: or, A Tale of Pekin, in which she performed a

popular imitation of Marie Aimee, singing Pretty as a Picture Later

came a Christmas engagement at the Boylston Museum, Boston and a

performance the following year at the city's Americus Club that led to

an offer to join the Boston Museum stock company. That November she

appeared at the Boston Museum in the original American production of

Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore and, over the following few

seasons, rose to be their leading soubrette. Martinot left The Boston

Museum after actor-manager Dion Boucicault offered her a substantial

raise to join him in England and her request for a modest salary

adjustment was rejected by the Museum's management.Martinot made her

London debut on Boxing Day, , at the Alhambra Theatre as the Spirit of

the Bracken in the three-act comic opera Mefistofele II. At the same

theatre the following March, she played Celine in the Opéra bouffe

Jeanne, Jeannette, et Jeanneton. On October , , she created at the

Royal Comedy Theatre, London, the role Katrina in the comic opera Rip

Van Winkle.
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