Martha Raye

Martha Raye

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.

  • titulus: Martha Raye
  • popularis: 6.143
  • notum enim: Acting
  • dies natalis: 1916-08-27
  • Locus Natus: Butte, Montana, USA
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  • Et ut: The Big Mouth, The Female Bob Hope, Margaret Teresa Yvonne “Margy” Reed, Margaret Teresa Yvonne Reed, Margy Reed
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Martha Raye Domum Movies Venatus

  • 1947
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    Monsieur Verdoux

    Monsieur Verdoux

    7.709 1947 HD

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  • 2003
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    Chaplin Today: 'Monsieur Verdoux'

    Chaplin Today: 'Monsieur Verdoux'

    5.3 2003 HD

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  • 1962
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    Billy Rose's Jumbo

    Billy Rose's Jumbo

    5.6 1962 HD

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  • 1938
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    The Big Broadcast of 1938

    The Big Broadcast of 1938

    5.972 1938 HD

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  • 1981
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    Pippin

    Pippin

    7.6 1981 HD

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  • 1944
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    Pin Up Girl

    Pin Up Girl

    6.1 1944 HD

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  • 1970
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    The Phynx

    The Phynx

    3.5 1970 HD

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  • 1966
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    Clown Alley

    Clown Alley

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1941
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    Hellzapoppin'

    Hellzapoppin'

    7.1 1941 HD

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  • 1982
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    Showbiz Goes to War

    Showbiz Goes to War

    10 1982 HD

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  • 1936
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    Rhythm on the Range

    Rhythm on the Range

    4 1936 HD

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  • 1937
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    Waikiki Wedding

    Waikiki Wedding

    5.4 1937 HD

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  • 1937
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    Double or Nothing

    Double or Nothing

    6.6 1937 HD

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  • 1944
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    Four Jills in a Jeep

    Four Jills in a Jeep

    5.7 1944 HD

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  • 2005
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    The Adventures of Errol Flynn

    The Adventures of Errol Flynn

    7.8 2005 HD

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  • 1939
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    Never Say Die

    Never Say Die

    6.8 1939 HD

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  • 1938
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    College Swing

    College Swing

    6.8 1938 HD

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  • 1938
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    Give Me a Sailor

    Give Me a Sailor

    5.6 1938 HD

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  • 1970
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    No Substitute for Victory

    No Substitute for Victory

    4.3 1970 HD

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  • 1941
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    Navy Blues

    Navy Blues

    4 1941 HD

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  • 1936
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    The Big Broadcast of 1937

    The Big Broadcast of 1937

    5.25 1936 HD

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  • 1938
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    Tropic Holiday

    Tropic Holiday

    5.5 1938 HD

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  • 1936
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    College Holiday

    College Holiday

    5.2 1936 HD

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  • 1979
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    The Concorde... Airport '79

    The Concorde... Airport '79

    4.7 1979 HD

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  • 1939
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    $1,000 a Touchdown

    $1,000 a Touchdown

    2 1939 HD

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  • 1940
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    The Farmer's Daughter

    The Farmer's Daughter

    5 1940 HD

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  • 1979
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    Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol

    Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol

    5.5 1979 HD

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  • 1937
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    Artists & Models

    Artists & Models

    6 1937 HD

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  • 1941
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    Keep 'Em Flying

    Keep 'Em Flying

    5.9 1941 HD

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  • 1940
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    The Boys from Syracuse

    The Boys from Syracuse

    6.5 1940 HD

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  • 1970
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    Pufnstuf

    Pufnstuf

    6.1 1970 HD

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  • 1943
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    Show-Business at War

    Show-Business at War

    7 1943 HD

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  • 1980
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    The Gossip Columnist

    The Gossip Columnist

    7.5 1980 HD

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  • 1936
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    Hideaway Girl

    Hideaway Girl

    1 1936 HD

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  • 2014
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    And the Oscar Goes To...

    And the Oscar Goes To...

    6.971 2014 HD

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  • 2014
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    Bing Crosby: Rediscovered

    Bing Crosby: Rediscovered

    7 2014 HD

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  • 1977
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    'Twas the Night Before Christmas

    'Twas the Night Before Christmas

    1 1977 HD

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  • 2019
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    Sid & Judy

    Sid & Judy

    7.6 2019 HD

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  • 1937
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    Mountain Music

    Mountain Music

    6.5 1937 HD

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  • 1976
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    Alice

    Alice

    7 1976 HD

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  • 1963
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    Burke's Law

    Burke's Law

    6 1963 HD

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  • 1950
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    7 1950 HD

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  • 1970
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    The Bugaloos

    The Bugaloos

    6.2 1970 HD

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  • 1964
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    The Hollywood Palace

    The Hollywood Palace

    4.5 1964 HD

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  • 1963
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    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

    5.5 1963 HD

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  • 1956
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    The Steve Allen Show

    The Steve Allen Show

    5 1956 HD

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  • 1969
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    The Barbara McNair Show

    The Barbara McNair Show

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1953
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    The Oscars

    The Oscars

    7 1953 HD

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  • 1985
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    Alice in Wonderland

    Alice in Wonderland

    6.9 1985 HD

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  • 1971
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    McMillan & Wife

    McMillan & Wife

    7.3 1971 HD

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  • 1963
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    The Judy Garland Show

    The Judy Garland Show

    8 1963 HD

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  • 1952
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    This Is Your Life

    This Is Your Life

    6.6 1952 HD

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  • 1961
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    The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

    5.1 1961 HD

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  • 1950
    imgS34 E7

    The Bob Hope Show

    The Bob Hope Show

    7 1950 HD

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  • 1959
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    The Big Party

    The Big Party

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Carol Burnett Show

    The Carol Burnett Show

    7.5 1967 HD

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  • 1977
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    The Love Boat

    The Love Boat

    6.3 1977 HD

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  • 1977
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    The Love Boat

    The Love Boat

    6.3 1977 HD

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  • 1968
    imgS12 E100

    The Dick Cavett Show

    The Dick Cavett Show

    6.658 1968 HD

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  • 1950
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    What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

    6.7 1950 HD

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  • 1971
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    McMillan & Wife

    McMillan & Wife

    7.3 1971 HD

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  • 1984
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    Murder, She Wrote

    Murder, She Wrote

    7.5 1984 HD

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