Martha O\'Driscoll (March 4, 1922 – November 3, 1998) was an American film actress from 1937 until 1947. She retired from the screen in 1947 after marrying her second husband, Arthur I. Appleton, president of Appleton Electric Company in Chicago.\n', 'O\'Driscoll\'s mother was a financial partner in the Hollywood Mar-Ken School. The school\'s director, Mrs. Bessire, had a son, William Kent Bessire. The two women decided to name the school after their children—Mar came from Martha and Ken from Kent. The school remained open until the early 1960s.\n', 'Trained in singing and dancing, O\'Driscoll was seen by choreographer Hermes Pan in a local theater production in Phoenix; Pan suggested to her mother that O\'Driscoll might do well in movies. Her mother and she moved to Hollywood in 1935, but Pan was out of town, so they answered an advertisement for dancers. O\'Driscoll was given a role in Collegiate (film) (1935), a musical in which Betty Grable had an early leading role. \n', '

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