Career
She was a petite brunette who weighed only a bit more than one hundred pounds. Her career began as a singer in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Martel was in the cast of the Broadway (Manhattan) play, Snatch as Snatch Can, in May 1934.
Other actors paired with her included Barton MacLane.
Her first film role was in followed by Going Highbrow (1935). The latter starred Guy Kibbee.
She was the female lead in Fighting Youth (1935). Playing the part of Betty Wilson, Martel starred opposite Charles Farrell and Andy Devine.
Martel was signed by Harry Warner of Warner Brothers in 1935.
Other aspiring Warners" actresses were Olivia de Havilland, June Grabiner, Nan Grey, and Dorothy Dare. By August 1936 she had become the property of Paramount Pictures. The studio cast her as the ingenue in American Plan.
The story concerned a girl who inherits a newspaper, adapted from an unpublished play by Manny Seff and Milton Lazarus.
She also appeared in Sitting on the Moon in 1936. Martel"s final screen roles came in the late 1930s, in western films.
Among these are, Wild Horse Rodeo (1937) and
