Steve Martin to marry

20-07-2007 11:30

Steve Martin is to marry girlfriend Anne Stringfield.The 'Father of the Bride' star has proposed to the former New Yorker journalist, who has recently been writing for US Vogue, and the pair are set to walk down the aisle very soon.The 61-year-old actor divorced his first wife, Victoria Tennant, in 1994 after eight years of marriage and went on to date actress Anne Heche. Martin recently finished his memoirs, 'Born Standing Up'.In the book - due for publication in December - the actor describes how he was once severely beaten by his father.Martin wrote he had been eating dinner in front of the TV when my "father muttered something to me, and I responded with a mumbled, 'What?'"He shouted, 'You heard me,' thundered up from his chair, pulled his belt out of its loops, and inflicted a beating that never seemed to end.