Martha Raye
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Person
- Born
- 1916-08-27
- Died
- 1994-10-19
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Film & TV
Acting · Butte, Montana, USA
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…
Known for
- Amara:The Statue — Martha2026
- Star Struck — Susan Mendella2026
- Airports2025
- Sid & Judy — Self (archive footage)2019
- Bing Crosby: Rediscovered — Self (archive footage)2014
- The Adventures of Errol Flynn — Self (archive footage)2005
- Chaplin Today: Monsieur Verdoux — Self (archive footage)2003
- Alice in Wonderland — Duchess1985
- Murder, She Wrote — Sadie Winthrope1984
- Showbiz Goes to War — (archive footage)1982
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Martha Raye (August 27, 1916 – October 19, 1994) was an American comic actress and standards singer who performed in movies, and later on television. She was honored in 1969 with an Academy Award 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. <a href="https:/
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- An Association between Air Pollution and Mortality in Six U.S. Cities
· 1993 · cited 5,937x
- Development and validation of a brief screening version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire
· 2003 · cited 5,274x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
· 2015 · cited 4,953x
- The Somatic Genomic Landscape of Glioblastoma
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Key dates
- Born
- 27 August 1916
- Died
- 19 October 1994
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Martha
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Butte
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Spouse
- Bud Westmore
- Occupation
- comedian
- Political party
- Republican Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language