Martha Raye

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Known as "The Big Mouth" and considered the female equivalent to Bob Hope, Martha Raye was an American icon in her own right.She was born Margy Reed in Butte, Montana, to Maybelle Hazel (Hooper) and Peter Reed, Jr., vaudeville performers. She had Irish, German, and English ancestry. Raye made her acting debut before the age of 10 as she toured the nation with her parents variety show "Reed and Hopper". In her late teens she was hired by band-leader Paul Ash as his lead vocalist and was spotted by a Hollywood talent scout during a New York City concert in 1934. She soon relocated to Hollywood were she began making a name for herself appearing in a string of successful screwball comedies alongside the likes of Bing Crosby, Jimmy Durante, W.C. Fields, and Joe E. Brown.With the outbreak of World War II she took a break from film making to focus on entertaining servicemen and women traveling with the USO on many tour stops. She soon became even more famous for her dedication to America, its values, and its soldiers which helped earn her the beloved nickname "Colonel Maggie".She continued acting into the late 1980s dividing her time between movies, TV guest spots, and occasional stage appearances. She passed away on October 19, 1994 after a long battle from pneumonia and was buried with full military honors at the Fort Bragg Main Post Cemetery, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Martha "Colonel Maggie" Raye was 78 years old. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous

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Streaming Availability

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Releases by Year

Martha Raye on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1970 to 2003. See the full graphs of the number of Martha Raye movies released per year from 1970 till 2003.

Top Genres

Martha Raye works mostly in Family Genre followed by Crime Genre flixes. 22% of Martha Raye movies are Family Genre movies. See Top Genres that Martha Raye worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Martha Raye has worked on is 7.0.

7.0 / 10

Martha Raye's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Adventure,Comedy,Family
Pufnstuf (1970)

Young Jimmy is being pursued by the evil Wilhemina W. Witchiepoo. More specifically, Witchiepoo is after Jimmy's small friend, a small solid gold diamond encrusted talking flute named ...

6.5/1098 min

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