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Martha of Bethany (Aramaic מַרְתָּא Martâ) is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of Luke and John. Together with her siblings Lazarus and Mary, she is described as living in the village of Bethany near Jerusalem. She is the middle child of her family with Lazarus being the eldest and her sister Mary Magdalene the youngest. She was witness to Jesus' resurrection of her brother, Lazarus.
The name Martha is a Latin transliteration of the Koine Greek Μαρθα, itself a translation of the Aramaic מַרְתָּא Martâ, "The mistress" or "the lady", from מרה "mistress", feminine of מר "master". The Aramaic form occurs in a Nabatean inscription found at Puteoli, and now in the Naples Museum; it is dated AD. 5 (Corpus Inscr. Semit., 158); also in a Palmyrene inscription, where the Greek translation has the form Marthein.
In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus visits the home of two sisters named Mary and Martha. The two sisters are contrasted: Martha was "cumbered about many things" while Jesus was their guest, while Mary had chosen "the better part", that of listening to the master's discourse. The name of their village is not recorded, nor any mention of whether Jesus was near Jerusalem:
Martha Raye (August 27, 1916 – October 19, 1994) was an American comic actress and standards singer who performed in movies, and later on television. She was honored in 1969 with an Academy Award as the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award recipient for her volunteer efforts and services to the troops.
Raye's life as a singer and comedic performer began very early in her childhood. She was born at St. James Hospital, in Butte, Montana as Margy Reed, where her Irish immigrant parents, Peter F. Reed and Maybelle Hooper, were performing at a local vaudeville theatre as "Reed and Hooper." Two days after Martha was born, her mother was already back on stage, and Martha first appeared in their act when she was three years old. She performed with her brother, Bud, and soon the two children became such a highlight that the act was renamed "Margie and Bud." Some show business insiders speculated that the Judy Garland song from A Star Is Born, "I was born in a trunk in the Princess Theater in Pocatello, Idaho" was inspired by Raye's beginnings.
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Genres: Music, Romance, War,Actors: Jack King (director), Clarence Nash (actor), Sara Berner (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Walt Disney (producer), Billy Bletcher (actor), Oliver Wallace (composer), Harry Reeves (writer),
Plot: Autograph hound Donald, despite the security guard, manages to get signatures from 'Greta Garbo' (qv), 'Mickey Rooney', 'Sonja Henie' (qv), The Ritz Brothers, and 'Shirley Temple' (qv) before he's recognized and everyone wants his autograph.
Keywords: 1930s, anthropomorphic-animal, anthropomorphism, celebrity-caricature, obsessed-fan, reference-to-the-marx-brothers, revolving-doorActors: Jack Mercer (actor), Sara Berner (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Walter Lantz (producer), Alex Lovy (writer), Victor McLeod (writer), Frank Churchill (composer), Elmer Perkins (director),
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Plot: Various Mother Goose rhymes are portrayed by Hollywood stars for example, Old King Cole's fiddlers three are the Marx Brothers, and Humpty Dumpty is W.C. Fields, who falls while tormenting Charlie McCarthy; Simple Simon and the Pieman are Laurel and Hardy.
Keywords: 1930s, animal-in-title, anthropomorphic-animal, anthropomorphism, blackface, cartoon-duck, celebrity, celebrity-caricature, character-name-in-title, chefI watched me burn today
I watched you turn away
If life was like this firefly
The night be mine, be mine
I watched me burn
Like fire and flowers and running like cowards is all I remember today
All my desires are burning like fire and flowers to pave me the way
I burn
I watched me burn
I watched me burn away
I watched this life the same
If I was right, I won't be wrong