- 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.
Filmography
- Alice in Wonderland (1985)
- The Bob Hope Anniversary Show (1981)
- Pippin: His Life and Times (1981)
- The Gossip Columnist (1980)
- Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol (1979)
- The Concorde ... Airport '79 (1979)
- Love, American Style Love and the Hidden Meaning/Love and the Model Apartment/Love and the Parent's Sake/Love and the Three-Timer/Love and the Weirdo (1973)
- The Bugaloos (1970)
- The Phynx (1970)
- Pufnstuf (1970)
- Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
- Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
News
Martha Raye
mtv.com –
1994-10-19
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


Polident commercial with Martha Raye
Martha Raye hosts Hollywood Palace (5 of 6)
THE MARTHA RAYE SHOW DANCE OPENING & KUKLA FRAN & OLLIE
Martha Raye OOH BOY!