Martha Raye

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  • Date of Birth: 27 August, 1916
  • Place of Birth: Butte, Montana, USA
  • Biography: Martha Raye (27 August 1916 – 19 October 1994) was an American comic actress and standards singer who performed in movies, and later on television.

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Martha Raye
mtv.com1994-10-19
Born to a peripatetic vaudeville couple, Maggie Reed joined her parents' act as soon as she learned to walk, stopping the show with an energetic rendition of "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate." ... Full Article

Synopsis: Bob Hope and Jack Whiting are amorous sailors.Martha Raye is the "ugly duckling" sister of beautiful Betty Grable .The complication? Everyone's in love with the wrong person: Martha pines for Jack who pines for Betty who pines... ... Full Article

This film should have been a press agent's dream: Hollywood's two greatest "big mouths," Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye, together in the same picture. ... Full Article

Chaplin generates little sympathy. His broad-mannered antics, as a many-aliased fop on the make for impressionable matrons; the telltale technique, a hangover from his bankteller's days, of counting the bundles of francs in the traditional nervous manner of rapid finger... ... Full Article

I'll admit, I haven't been the biggest Amanda Overmyer fan on this season's American Idol . Her uber-husky voice is somewhere between Harvey Fierstein and Martha Raye. ... Full Article

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