Book summaryThis biography details the childhood, career, and seven marriages of Martha Raye, the comedienne, singer, and actress who was literally born into show business. Media reviews"Jean Maddern Pitrone's biography of the entertainer Martha Raye reads like a Jacqueline Susann novel, complete with pills, booze, blackouts and brawls.... Though sympathetic, TAKE IT FROM THE BIG MOUTH lacks Raye's brassy voice, using only scraps of quotations. Pitrone also strangely suspends judgment; life with Maggie, as Raye was known to friends, and her mob-connected, alcoholic fourth husband, Nick Condos, must have made MOMMIE DEAREST look like a picnic to their daughter, Melodye." |
Take it from the Big Mouth: The Life of Martha Rayeby Pitrone, Jean Maddern1st
Book desription: Very good copy with a very good dust jacket. 238pp. Music Popular University Press of Kentucky [1999] 1st Hardcover Dust jacket covered with mylar jacket protector. Some water wrinkling to page tops of a few pages at front of book.
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