TY - BOOK ID - 78072010 TI - Take It from the Big Mouth : The Life of Martha Raye PY - 1999 SN - 0813157412 9780813157412 9780813121109 PB - Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, DB - UniCat KW - Entertainers KW - Raye, Martha. KW - Reed, Margaret Teresa Yvonne KW - Reed, Margie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78072010 AB - ""She was one of the world's four best comediennes,"" said Milton Berle, ""but she lived a life of personal disaster."" Martha Raye sang, danced, and joked her way into the spotlight of the entertainment world with a career that spanned seven decades and encompassed everything from vaudeville to television commercials to entertaining U.S. troops. Take It from the Big Mouth, the first full-fledged biography of the multi-talented performer, explores Raye's life and career with candor and insight. Raye got her big break when she caught the attention of a film director as she kidded with audience ER -