Background
Marlowe was born Marion Townsend in Saint Louis, Missouri, and her father died several years later. At that point Marlow and her mother (a ballerina who had danced with the Metropolitan Opera) moved in with her grandparents.
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Marion Marlowe
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According to Richard Lamparksi"s 1975 book Whatever Became of..?, Marlowe began taking vocal lessons when she was 12 years old and studied at London"s Royal Conservatory under Sir Thomas Beecham.
Career
She is best known for her recordings of "The Manitoba in the Raincoat" and "Heartbeat". Her initial public performance came at age 5 when she sang Avenue Maria at the Moolah Temple in Saint Louis. She had her own quarter-hour weekly radio program from age 9 until she was 13.
Later, she roomed with Marilyn Monroe at Hollywood"s Studio Club while being coached by Sigmund Romberg.
Marlowe later pursued a career as a stage actress, most notably as the Baroness, Elsa Schraeder, in The Sound of Music, from 1959 to 1963. Marlowe died of natural causes in Tucson, Arizona, on March 24, 2012, aged 83.
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United States