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Martha Raye

Martha Raye

Actress

Martha Raye (born Margy Reed), nicknamed The Big Mouth, was an American comic actress and singer who performed in movies, and later on television. She also acted in plays, including Broadway. She was honored in 1969 at the Academy Awards as the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award recipient for her volunteer efforts and services to the troops. In the early 1930s, Raye was a band vocalist with the Paul Ash and Boris Morros orchestras. She made her first film appearance in 1934 in a band short titled A Nite in the Nite Club. In 1936, she was signed for comic roles by Paramount Pictures, and made her first picture for Paramount. Her first feature film was Rhythm on the Range with crooner Bing Crosby. She was a featured cast member in 39 episodes of Al Jolson's weekly CBS radio show, The Lifebuoy Program, also called Cafe Trocadero. In addition to comedy, Martha sang both solos and duets with Jolson. Over the next quarter century, she would appear with many of the leading comics of her day, including Joe E. Brown, Bob Hope, W. C. Fields, Abbott and Costello (in Keep 'Em Flying), Charlie Chaplin (in Monsieur Verdoux), and Jimmy Durante. She joined the USO in 1942, soon after the US entered World War II. She was known for the size of her mouth, which was large in proportion to her face, earning her the nickname The Big Mouth. She later referred to this in a series of television commercials for Polident denture cleaner in the 1980s: "So take it from The Big Mouth: new Polident Green gets tough stains clean!" Her large mouth would relegate her motion picture work to supporting comic parts, and was often made up so it appeared even larger. In the Disney cartoon Mother Goose Goes Hollywood, she is caricatured while dancing alongside Joe E. Brown, another actor known for a big mouth. In the Warner Bros. cartoon The Woods Are Full Of Cuckoos (1937), she was caricatured as a jazzy scat-singing donkey named 'Moutha Bray'. She often appeared as a guest on other programs, particularly those which often featured older performers as guest stars, such as ABC's The Love Boat, and also on variety programs, including the short-lived The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show. She appeared from the third to the ninth seasons as Carrie Sharples on Alice, making two or three appearances a season. She made guest appearances or did cameo roles in such series as Murder, She Wrote on CBS and The Andy Williams Show and McMillan & Wife, both on NBC. She appeared again as Agatha for the six-episode run of the retooled McMillan, taking over for Nancy Walker, who had left the series. Her last film appearance was as an incontinent airline passenger in the disaster film The Concorde ... Airport '79. Later in her career, she made television commercials for Polident denture cleanser, principally during the 1970s and 1980s.

Born: August 27, 1916 in Butte, Montana, USA

Died: October 19, 1994 (Age 78)

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Martha Raye  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
6.7
ActressHelen Flint1936
Movie
6
ActressEmma1936
Movie
6.2
ActressLiza Lou Lane1937
Movie
5.7
ActressMyrtle Finch1937
Movie
8
ActressAnnabella Bonheur1947
Movie
4.2
ActressFoxy1970
Movie
5.8
ActressSpecialty1937
Movie
6
ActressMartha Raye1944
Movie
4.7
ActressLoretta1979
Movie
7.2
ActressSelf (archive footage)2019
Movie
5.2
ActressMidge Miller1938
Movie
7.2
ActressBetty Johnson1941
Movie
5.5
ActressDaisy Schloggenheimer1936
Movie
6.7
ActressGloria Phelps / Barbara Phelps1941
Movie
5.6
ActressHerself1970
Movie
5.9
ActressLulu1962
Movie
7
ActressPatience Bingham1940
Movie
5.3
ActressMartha Madison1939
Movie
5.9
ActressMartha Bellows1938
Movie
5.8
ActressMolly McKay1944
Movie
5.8
ActressMabel Grady1938
Movie
6.2
ActressLetty Larkin1938
Movie
5.7
ActressLuce1940
Movie
6.6
ActressMickey Hawkins1939
Movie
7.6
ActressMary Beamish1937
Movie
5.5
ActressLilibelle Bolton1941
Movie
5.8
ActressPatsy1936
Movie
6.3
ActressBoss Witch1970
Movie
7.2
ActressSelf (archive footage)2014
TV Show
6.6
ActressBenita Bizarre
17 Episodes
1970-1972
TV Show
7
ActressAgatha
1 Episode
1971-1977
TV Show
7.5
ActressSelf
2 Episodes
1950-1955
TV Show
7.9
ActressSelf - Sketch Actor / Singer
2 Episodes
1964-1970
TV Show
8.2
ActressSelf
11 Episodes
1956-1960
TV Show
6.7
Actress8 Episodes1976-1985
TV Show
8.5
ActressSelf - Guest
8 Episodes
1967-1978
TV Show
8.1
ActressSelf - Guest
1 Episode
1968-1988
TV Show
6.8
ActressSelf
1 Episode
1950-1993
TV Show
9.3
ActressSelf
1 Episode
1959
TV Show
6.4
ActressZelda
1 Episode
1977-1987
TV Show
7.4
ActressSadie Winthrope
1 Episode
1984-1996
TV Show
8.3
ActressSelf - Mystery Guest
1 Episode
1950-1967
TV Show
8
ActressSelf
1 Episode
1969-1971
TV Show
7.2
Actress2 Episodes1963-1967
TV Show
7.1
ActressBeulah Brothers
1 Episode
1963-1966
TV Show
8.7
ActressHerself
1 Episode
1963-1964
TV Show
6.4
ActressIrene Austin
1 Episode
1977-1987
TV Show
7
ActressAgetha
6 Episodes
1971-1977
TV Show
6.9
ActressSelf
1 Episode
1961-1982
TV Show
7.2
ActressSelf
11 Episodes
1950
TV Show
7
ActressSelf
1 Episode
1953
TV Show
8.7
ActressSelf
1 Episode
1963-1964
Short Film
6.8
ActressSelf1943
Movie
7.1
ActressBertha1982
Movie
7
ActressSelf (archive footage)2014
Movie
4.4
ActressThe Ghost of Christmas Past1979
Movie
6.5
ActressGeorgia O'Hanlon1980
Movie
7.8
ActressSelf (archive footage)2005
Movie
9.1
ActressWasherwoman Clown1966
Movie
9
Actress(archive footage)1982
Movie
ActressSelf (archive footage)2003
Limited Series
7.4
ActressThe Duchess
2 Episodes
1985-1985
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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