Martha Raye

Bragg, North Carolina. Sarandon and Robbins are also noted for their involvement in liberal political causes. She was buried with full military honors on Saturday, in Ft. Sarandon has three children: actress Eva Amurri (born 1985) by Franco Amurri; and John Henry (born 1989) and Miles (born 1992) by Robbins. 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 recent movies include Stepmom (1998), Anywhere But Here (1999), Cradle Will Rock (1999) (portraying Mussolini's mistress), and The Banger Sisters (2002). In addition to the aforementioned television work, she appeared for two years as Mel Sharples' mother, Carrie, on the sitcom Alice. Sarandon received four Academy Award nominations in the 1990s, finally winning in 1996 for Dead Man Walking.

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. It was while filming that movie that she met actor Tim Robbins, with whom she established a relationship that continues to this day (as of 2004). 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. She was nominated for an Oscar in 1980 for Atlantic City, but was still not a "household name" until the 1988 film Bull Durham. In 1970 she portrayed Boss Witch, the "Queen of all Witch-dom" in the film Pufnstuf. That same year, she also played the female lead in The Great Waldo Pepper, opposite Robert Redford. 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. She did not follow up on the success of that movie, taking roles in lesser films such as Lovin' Molly; it was five more years before she appeared in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the cult classic.

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. In 1970 she went to a cattle call for the film Joe with Chris and, although he did not get a part, Susan received the major role of the disaffected teen who disappears into the seedy underworld. In November of 1993, President Clinton awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Born Susan Abigail Tomalin in New York, New York, she attended The Catholic University of America in 1964, where she met and married fellow student Chris Sarandon, whom she would divorce fifteen years later while still retaining her married name as her stage name. In 1968, she was given the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in the form of an Oscar. Susan Sarandon (born October 4, 1946) is an Academy Award winning American actress. During WW2, Korea and Vietnam, Martha travelled extensively to entertain the American troops. 1982 Nominated Atlantic City.

She joined the USO soon after the US entered World War II. 1992 Nominated Thelma and Louise. 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. 1993 Nominated Lorenzo's Oil. 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. 1995 Nominated The Client. It relegated her motion picture work to largely supporting comic parts. 1996 Won Dead Man Walking.

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.