George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1895[1] or 1901[2][3] – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s. A stylish leading man in dozens of movies, Raft is remembered for his gangster roles in Quick Millions (1931) with Spencer Tracy, Scarface (1932) with Paul Muni, Each Dawn I Die (1939) with James Cagney, Invisible Stripes (1939) with Humphrey Bogart, and Billy Wilder's comedy Some Like It Hot (1959) with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon; and as a dancer in Bolero (1934) with Carole Lombard and a truck driver in They Drive by Night (1940) with Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino and Bogart.[4]
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GeorgeRaft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1895 or 1901 – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters...
The GeorgeRaft Story is a 1961 American biographical film directed by Joseph M. Newman that stars Ray Danton as Hollywood film star GeorgeRaft. The picture...
(1938) with James Cagney and Bogart, They Drive by Night (1940) with GeorgeRaft and Bogart, City for Conquest (1940) with Cagney and Elia Kazan, The...
gangster film directed by William Keighley and starring James Cagney and GeorgeRaft. The plot involves an investigative reporter who is unjustly thrown in...
starring GeorgeRaft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, and Humphrey Bogart, and featuring Gale Page, Alan Hale, Roscoe Karns, John Litel and George Tobias. The...
Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with GeorgeRaft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee and Nehemiah Persoff in supporting...
screen biographies The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960) and The GeorgeRaft Story (1962). He was married to actress Julie Adams from 1954 to 1981...
career, beginning with Wesley Ruggles's musical drama Bolero, where GeorgeRaft and she showcased their dancing skills in an extravagantly staged performance...
Background to Danger is a 1943 World War II spy thriller film starring GeorgeRaft and featuring Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre. Based...
Davis. Producer Hal B. Wallis initially offered to cast GeorgeRaft as the leading man, but Raft (then better known than Bogart) had a contract stipulating...
of Have Gun Will Travel (1958). Chase's other film roles included The GeorgeRaft Story (1961); the beating victim of a sadistic Robert Mitchum in the...
Manny Ribera (the part played by GeorgeRaft in the original 1932 version) in the 1983 movie Scarface, even though (like Raft) he was a relatively unknown...
in the role of Maudie Triplett in Night After Night (1932) starring GeorgeRaft, who had suggested West for the part. At first she did not like her small...
Next he starred with GeorgeRaft and Humphrey Bogart in the Warner Bros. gangster epic Invisible Stripes (1939), billed below Raft and above Bogart. Back...
The Raft of the Medusa (French: Le Radeau de la Méduse [lə ʁado d(ə) la medyz]) – originally titled Scène de Naufrage (Shipwreck Scene) – is an oil painting...
Retrieved June 25, 2016 – via Newspapers.com. Aaker, Everett (2013). GeorgeRaft: The Films. McFarland. pp. 104–105. ISBN 978-0-7864-6646-7. Retrieved...
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