Martha as First Name

Martha Ellen Scott            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Martha Ellen Scott: was an American actress.Scott was born in Jamesport, Missouri, the daughter of Letha (née McKinley) and Walter Scott, an engineer and garage owner; her mother was a second-cousin of U.S. President William McKinley. Scott became interested in acting in high school, but failed to earn a degree from the University of Michigan before pursuing her acting dream. She got her start acting in shortened Shakespeare productions at the Century of Progress world's fair in Chicago, Illinois in 1933 - 1934.

Martha O'Driscoll            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Martha O'Driscoll: was an American film actress from 1937 until 1947. At age 25, she retired from show business to marry a Chicago businessman. In the 1980s and 1990s, she was a guest speaker at numerous movie-nostalgia conventions.

Martha Raye            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Martha Raye: was an Academy Award-winning American comic actress and standards singer who performed in movies, and later on television.In the early 1930s, Raye was a band vocalist with the Paul Ash and Boris Morros orchestras. She made her first film appearance in 1934 in a band short titled A Nite in the Nite Club. In 1936, she was signed for comic roles by Paramount Pictures, and made her first picture for Paramount. Her first feature film was Rhythm on the Range with crooner Bing Crosby. Over the next 26 years, she would eventually appear with many of the leading comics of her day, including Joe E. Brown, Bob Hope, W.C. Fields, Abbott and Costello, Charlie Chaplin, and Jimmy Durante. She joined the USO soon after the US entered World War II.

Martha Tilton            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Martha Tilton: was an American popular singer, best-known for her 1939 recording of "And the Angels Sing" with Benny Goodman. She was sometimes introduced as The Liltin' Miss Tilton.Tilton and her family lived in Texas and Kansas, relocating to Los Angeles when she was seven years old. While attending Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, she was singing on a small radio station when she was heard by an agent who signed her and began booking her with larger stations. She then dropped out of school in the 11th grade to join Hal Grayson's band.

Martha Campbell Plimpton            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Martha Campbell Plimpton: Plimpton began her career in modeling, securing an early 1980s campaign for Calvin Klein, making an impression as a sophisticated, but tomboyish little girl. She made her screen debut in 1981, when at the age of 11 she had a small part in the film Rollove

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