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    George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1895 or 1901 – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters...
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    The George Raft Story is a 1961 American biographical film directed by Joseph M. Newman that stars Ray Danton as Hollywood film star George Raft. The picture...
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    A raft is any flat structure for support or transportation over water. It is usually of basic design, characterized by the absence of a hull. Rafts are...
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  • starring George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, and Humphrey Bogart, and featuring Gale Page, Alan Hale, Roscoe Karns, John Litel and George Tobias. The...
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    rises through the Chicago gangland, with a supporting cast that includes George Raft and Boris Karloff. Camonte's rise to power dovetails with his relentless...
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  • gangster film directed by William Keighley and starring James Cagney and George Raft. The plot involves an investigative reporter who is unjustly thrown in...
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  • Background to Danger is a 1943 World War II spy thriller film starring George Raft and featuring Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre. Based...
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    career, beginning with Wesley Ruggles's musical drama Bolero, where George Raft and she showcased their dancing skills in an extravagantly staged performance...
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  • L. Marin and starring George Raft, June Havoc and Helena Carter. Intrigue was intended to be the first of a number of films Raft made, with producer Sam...
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    (1938) with James Cagney and Bogart, They Drive by Night (1940) with George Raft and Bogart, City for Conquest (1940) with Cagney and Elia Kazan, The...
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    Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee and Nehemiah Persoff in supporting...
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    Retrieved June 25, 2016 – via Newspapers.com. Aaker, Everett (2013). George Raft: The Films. McFarland. pp. 104–105. ISBN 978-0-7864-6646-7. Retrieved...
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    screen biographies The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960) and The George Raft Story (1962). He was married to actress Julie Adams from 1954 to 1981...
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    American film noir directed by Ted Tetzlaff and starring George Raft. An ex-gangster (Raft), temporarily working as a federal agent, runs afoul of a...
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  • 20th century directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Wallace Beery and George Raft. The supporting cast features Jackie Cooper, Fay Wray, and Pert Kelton...
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  • Look up raft in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A raft is a flat floating structure for travel over water. Raft may also refer to: Raft (band), a French...
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    Davis. Producer Hal B. Wallis initially offered to cast George Raft as the leading man, but Raft (then better known than Bogart) had a contract stipulating...
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    Era. ISBN 9781476616193. Beaver, Jim "George Raft", Films in Review, April 1978. Yablonsky, Lewis George Raft, New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1974....
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  • Lansky and Philadelphia crime family boss Angelo Bruno, through front man George Raft, and low-level English gambler Alfred Salkin, who Cellini had met at...
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  • portmanteau comedy drama film directed by Edwin L. Marin and starring George Raft, George Brent and Randolph Scott. It is based on a story by Laurence Stallings...
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    Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda, Joel McCrea, Fredric March, George Raft and Cary Grant. Among her films from this period were: An American Tragedy...
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    Ocean's 11 (category Films with screenplays by George Clayton Johnson)
    It includes cameo appearances by Shirley MacLaine, Red Skelton, and George Raft. Ocean's 11 premiered in Las Vegas on August 3, 1960, and was theatrically...
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  • Jean-Paul Belmondo and George Raft received major billing, even though both only appear briefly during the climactic brawl at the end, Raft flipping his trademark...
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    Sherlock Holmes (1939) with Basil Rathbone; They Drive by Night (1940) with George Raft and Humphrey Bogart; High Sierra (1941) with Bogart; The Sea Wolf (1941)...
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    Invisible Stripes is a 1939 Warner Bros. crime film starring George Raft as a gangster unable to go straight after returning home from prison. The movie...
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    Manny Ribera (the part played by George Raft in the original 1932 version) in the 1983 movie Scarface, even though (like Raft) he was a relatively unknown...
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  • Quentin. The film stars Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, and George Raft. Peter Denver, a renowned Broadway producer, is attending a cocktail...
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    Ann McCrea as Miss Sexy Pot Buddy Lester as Willard C. Gainsborough George Raft as himself Harry James as Harry Marty Ingels as himself In addition,...
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  • by Raoul Walsh and starring Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, and George Raft. The picture was written by Richard Macaulay and Jerry Wald, and the...
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  • Martin Rackin, and starring George Raft, Ella Raines and Pat O'Brien. The film was one of a series of thrillers in which Raft appeared in the late 1940s...
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