Eleanor Parker

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6340 Hollywood Blvd. Bragg, North Carolina. In 1967 she starred in the television series Bracken's World, and then in several made-for-television movies. She was buried with full military honors on Saturday, in Ft. Parker never became a big name in Hollywood, despite numerous movies and Oscar nominations. Martha Raye was deeply patriotic and, thanks to her work with the USO during World War II and subsequent wars, special consideration was given to bury her in Arlington National Cemetery upon her death. Her most memorable screen role was as "The Baroness" (Baroness Elsa Schrader) in "The Sound Of Music" 1965. In addition to the aforementioned television work, she appeared for two years as Mel Sharples' mother, Carrie, on the sitcom Alice.

She broke the champagne bottle on the nose of the inaugural trainset for the California Zephyr in San Francisco, CA on March 19, 1949. She also appeared in a number of commercials for a denture adhesive product which emphasized its importance to her appearance due to the size of her mouth. In 1950 she received the first of three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for Caged, in which she played a prison inmate. She often appeared as a guest on other programs, particularly ones which often had older performers as guest stars, such as The Love Boat, and on variety programs. By 1946 she had starred in Between Two Worlds, Hollywood Canteen, Pride of the Marines and Of Human Bondage. In 1970 she portrayed Boss Witch, the "Queen of all Witch-dom" in the film Pufnstuf. Born in Cedarville, Ohio, she was signed by Warner Brothers in 1941 and debuted that year in They Died With Their Boots On. In the late 1950s she made a well-publicized suicide attempt which may have been partially related to the breakup of her marriage to conductor-composer David Rose.

Eleanor Parker (born June 26, 1922) is an American actress. Miss Raye was an early television star when that medium was very young; for a while she had her own program, The Martha Raye Show, in which she was the lead and her awkward boyfriend was portrayed by retired middleweight boxer Rocky Graziano. 1951 - Caged. In November of 1993, President Clinton awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 1952 - Detective Story. In 1968, she was given the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in the form of an Oscar. 1956 - Interrupted Melody. During WW2, Korea and Vietnam, Martha travelled extensively to entertain the American troops.

She joined the USO soon after the US entered World War II. For example, she appears in the picture The Big Broadcast of 1938 where Bob Hope first sings what became his theme song, Thanks for the Memories; however, it is not sung to Miss Raye, but rather the female leading actress that she supports. She became known as "The Big Mouth"; apparently she was often made up in a way which tended to cause it to appear as even larger than it actually already was. It relegated her motion picture work to largely supporting comic parts.

Miss Raye was best known for the size of her mouth, which appeared enormous in proportion to the rest of her face. Martha Raye (1916-October 19, 1994) was an American comic actress and singer in motion pictures and later, on television.