Becket, Marta
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- Beckett, Marta
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1924
Death Date
- 2017-01-30
Associated Locale
- Death Valley Junction (Calif.)
Associated Language
- English
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Sources
- found: Her Death Valley Junction, 1979:t.p. (Marta Becket)
- found: Beckett, Marta. To dance on sands, c2006:t.p. (Marta Beckett) bk. jkt. (artist, dance, and model; b. 1924)
- found: Los Angeles times WWW site, viewed Feb. 2, 2017(in obituary dated Feb. 1, 2017: Marta Becket; died Monday [Jan. 30, 2017] at 92; spent decades presenting self-written, one-woman shows at the Amargosa Opera House in Death Valley Junction, a former mining hub seven miles from the Nevada state line; a classically trained dancer who grew up in New York and danced at Radio City Music Hall, Becket made her debut at the opera house in 1968; lived in a small shack behind the opera house; in 2006, she wrote an autobiography, "To Dance on Sands," a story of art blooming in unexpected places)
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Change Notes
- 1981-09-21: new
- 2017-02-02: revised
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