Valerie Perrine

In 1975, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for playing Honey Bruce in Lenny (1974), for which she was also nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama. 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. She made her motion picture debut with an uncredited part in Diamonds Are Forever (1971), then played the soft-core porn actress Montana Wildhack in Slaughterhouse-Five (1972). 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. Perrine began her career as a Las Vegas showgirl. In 1970 she portrayed Boss Witch, the "Queen of all Witch-dom" in the film Pufnstuf. Born in Galveston, Texas, her father was a military officer and they traveled from base to base throughout the world. 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.

Valerie Perrine (born September 3, 1943) 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. In November of 1993, President Clinton awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1968, she was given the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in the form of an Oscar. 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.