article_snippet: Ryan believes Ryan was Marty Martin (left), who was in the Mae West (right) film Night After Night and performed on Broadway .
article_snippet: her son was pointing to an extra in the film, a man with no lines that they later learned was bit-actor-turned-agent Marty Martin.
article_snippet: The certificate claimed Martin was born in 1905 when in fact Martin had been born in 1903 according to the census.
article_snippet: And so, Martin was likely 61 years old at the time of Martin death.
highlights_snippet: he claimed he was Marty Martin, who was in the Mae West film 'Night After Night' and performed on Broadway, after seeing he in a movie still .
  
highlights_snippet: What's more, Martin is such an obscure actor that there were no articles of pieces about Martin at all, and it took a film archivist to even learn Martin name .
  
highlights_snippet: Ryan also knew the year Martin was born, even though it was listed incorrectly on Ryan public death certificate .