Today is the birthday of “The Big Mouth”, Martha Raye (for more on the life and career of this second generation vaudevillian, go here). Here she is cutting up with Red Skelton in a fairly appalling clip: To find out more about the variety arts past and present, consult No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:25AM on August 27, 2012