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Tony Martin (actually Alvin Morris; born December 25, 1913 in Oakland, California) is an American actor and singer who enjoyed great success between 1935 and 1960, especially as a pop singer in film musicals. Alvin Morris was born in 1913 into a Portuguese-Jewish family in California. At the age of 10, his grandmother gave him a soprano saxophone. He played this instrument in the school orchestra and sang as a boy soprano. In high school, he founded his first band, "The Red Peppers." But soon after, he joined an orchestra led by Tom Guran (the members included later greats such as Woody Herman and Ginny Simms). He played regularly at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco and appeared at the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago. In 1934, Morris left the band and went to Hollywood to try his luck in film. He took the stage name Tony Martin. His first work there was on the radio; he appeared on the radio shows of George Burns and Gracie Allen, among others. At first he only appeared in smaller roles in the cinema, for example as a sailor in Follow the Fleet in 1936, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Martin worked for the film studios 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which gave him leading roles in a series of film musicals in the late 1930s. He sang and played alongside Hollywood stars such as Judy Garland and Betty Grable (Pigskin Parade), Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea (Banjo On My Knee), Rita Hayworth (Music in My Heart), Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr and Lana Turner (Ziegfeld Girl) and the Marx Brothers (The Big Store). Between 1938 and 1942 he also recorded several records for the Decca Records label, mostly with songs from his films. His song The Tenement Symphony from the Marx Brothers comedy The Big Store from 1941 was already seen as a rather unintentionally comic highlight of the film. Even though it did not initially bring him commercial success, it developed into a kind of "signature tune" for Martin. Wherever he appeared later, he had to play this piece. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Martin joined the United States Navy. Due to rumors (which were never proven) that he had accepted bribes from an officer, he transferred to the Army Air Force, the predecessor of the United States Air Force. Despite his excellent performances, the rumors here also damaged his reputation. Even the major record companies refused to give him a contract. So he ended up with Mercury Records, a small independent label at the time. Between 1946 and 1947 he recorded five records for Mercury, including To Each His Own in 1946, which became a million-seller. RCA Records showed interest again and signed him in 1947. Martin's biggest success was 1949's There's No Tomorrow, a cover of the Neapolitan folk song "O sole mio", which is also the basis for Elvis Presley's It's Now or Never. In the 1940s and 1950s, Martin appeared in a number of other musical films. His duet with Joan Weldon, Lover Come Back To Me, from the 1954 film Deep in My Heart - music by Sigmund Romberg, with José Ferrer in the lead role - is considered a highlight in Hollywood musical history. Due to his popularity, he was offered his own TV format in 1954. He hosted the "Tony Martin Show" until 1956. In 1937, Martin married actress Alice Faye; the couple divorced in 1941. From 1948 until her death in 2008, he was married to actress Cyd Charisse. The couple have two sons, Tony Martin Jr. (* 1950) and Nicky. Martin and his wife appeared in the films "Easy To Love" and "Meet Me In Las Vegas". The couple's honeymoon took them to London in 1948, and both have returned there for work ever since. In 1986, Charisse played the role of Lady Hadwell in the stage musical "Charlie Girl" at the Victoria Palace Theatre, Martin had regular engagements at the London Palladium in the 1950s and performed repeatedly at the Café Royal in the 1990s.