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Martha Raye with Phil Moore Orchestra
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Martha Raye (August 27, 1916 – October 19, 1994) 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 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. In 1936, she was signed for comic roles by Paramount Pictures, and made her first picture for Paramount. Her first feature film was Rhythm on the Range with crooner Bing Crosby. From 1936–39, she was a featured cast member in 39 episodes of Al Jolson's weekly CBS radio show, The Lifebuoy Program, also called Cafe Trocadero. In addition to comedy, Martha sang both solos and duets with Jolson. Over the next quarter century, she would appear with many of the leading comics of her day, including Joe E. Brown, Bob Hope, W. C. Fields, Abbott and Costello (in Keep 'Em Flying), Charlie Chaplin (in Monsieur Verdoux), and Jimmy Durante. She joined the USO in 1942, soon after the US entered World War II. She was known for the size of her mouth, which was large in proportion to her face, earning her the nickname The Big Mouth. She later referred to this in a series of television commercials for Polident denture cleaner in the 1980s: "So take it from The Big Mouth: new Polident
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Technicolor Paradise - Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights
Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights
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The Exotica Project
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Technicolor Paradise Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights
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Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights (disc 2)
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Exotica Project
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Exotica
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B-Sides/Dreamland Exotica
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Lotus Land
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Technicolor Paradise - Rhum Rhapsodies Other Exotic Delights
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Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies
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Exotic Summer