Martha Raye

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AKA: The Big Mouth, Martha the Mouth, Margaret Teresa Yvonne Reed
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 08/27/1916
Birthplace: Butte, Montana, USA
Death Date: 10/19/1994

biography

Former child performer who toured with her vaudevillian parents, self-dubbed 'Martha the Mouth' and 'The Big Mouth' first made a name for herself as a sophisticated jazz song stylist. After enjoying success onstage and in radio, Raye entered features films in 1936, where she gained a second following as a raucous, knockabout singing comedienne. She supplied broad comic relief in a number of Bing Crosby films and often got to sing in her peppy, surprisingly mellifluous voice, most notably in "Double or Nothing" (1937) and the film version of Rodgers and Hart hit, "Boys from Syracuse" (1940). In Continued

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Year
Milestone
1916 
Entered parents' vaudeville act at age three
1919 
Toured extensively in vaudeville as Bud and Margie with the Benny Davis Revue, the Ben Blue Company and the Will Morrissey Company
1931 
Worked as band singer and comedienne with Paul Ash's Orchestra at age 15 (date approximate)
 
Joined Boris Morros's Orchestra as a band vocalist with whom she played the Paramount Theatre on Broadway
1934 
Made NY debut at Loew's State Theater
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