The best Martha Raye’s music movies

Martha Raye

Martha Raye

27/08/1916- 19/10/1994
Today we present the best Martha Raye’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Martha Raye’s movies.

Hellzapoppin'

Hellzapoppin'
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 25/12/1941
  • Character: Betty Johnson
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.

Artists & Models

Artists & Models
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 04/08/1937
  • Character: Martha Raye
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.

Tropic Holiday

Tropic Holiday
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 29/06/1938
  • Character: Midge Miller
A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the border.

Pippin

Pippin
7.3/10
The musical uses the premise of a mysterious performance troupe, led by a Leading Player, to tell the story of Pippin, a young prince on his search for meaning and significance. In 1981, a stage production of Pippin was videotaped for Canadian television. The stage production was directed by Kathryn Doby, Bob Fosse's dance captain for the original Broadway production, and David Sheehan directed the video adaptation, with Roger O. Hirson in charge of the music. Ben Vereen returned for the role of Leading Player, while William Katt played the role of Pippin. However, this version was a truncated adaptation and several sections of the play were cut. An extended version running 135 minutes is also available.

College Swing

College Swing
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 29/04/1938
  • Character: Mabel Grady
Gracie Alden tries to graduate from college to get an inheritance.

Pufnstuf

Pufnstuf
6.5/10
Jimmy (Jack Wild) ventures to Living Island with his magical, talking flute, Freddy. Once there, he befriends many of the island's inhabitants, but the evil Witchiepoo (Billie Hayes) is determined to steal Freddy the flute away from the boy to impress the visiting witches council and win the Witch of the Year Award.

Navy Blues

Navy Blues
5.7/10
On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship. What they haven't learned, however, is that the marksman's enlistment is up before the contest is supposed to take place.

Pin Up Girl

Pin Up Girl
6/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 25/04/1944
  • Character: Molly McKay
Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost every serviceman she's signed her pin-up photo for. Now she's leaving home to go into government service (not, as she fantasizes, to join the USO). On a side trip to New York, her vivid imagination leads her to True Love with naval hero Tommy Dooley; but increasingly involved Musical Comedy Complications follow.

The Big Broadcast of 1937

The Big Broadcast of 1937
6/10
A cream-of-the-crop gathering of 1930's radio stars, who lend themselves to a storyline about a failing radio station which needs to put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation. An interesting mixture of the stars whose fame continued to grow, those who became bit players in show business history, and those who have been forgotten entirely, except at the Internet Movie Database of course!

Billy Rose's Jumbo

Billy Rose's Jumbo
6.1/10
The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.

The Boys from Syracuse

The Boys from Syracuse
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 30/07/1940
  • Character: Luce
The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love

The Big Broadcast of 1938

The Big Broadcast of 1938
6.1/10
The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.

Four Jills in a Jeep

Four Jills in a Jeep
6.2/10
Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.

Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol

Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol
4.2/10
Charled Dicken's tale A Christmas Carol takes a contemporary jolt in this original musical set in modern-day Tennessee. Cyrus Flint is a mean old banker whose one and only concern is the welfare of Flint City Bank. Dennis and Laura Pritchett are two parents struggling to make enough money to pay for an operation their son needs. Flint is organizing a songwriting and singing contest with a $2000 first prize to promote his bank.

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