George Raft | Life and Legacy - Biography
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- George Raft was a former Broadway dancer who also befriended many New York mobsters throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Raft is mostly known for his gangster roles in the original Scarface (1932), Each Dawn I Die (1939), and Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot, as a dancer in Bolero (1934), and a truck driver in They Drive by Night (1940).
The greatest actor of all times and loved to see him dance nobody can equal him in hollywood
If George Raft's career has gone downhill in Hollywood, it is because he is a gentleman.
Sure could enjoy his movies now. I watched everything he performed in. Greatest dancer, handsome man, gangster and he had all the greatest actors and actresses of the days. Love this man.
His dancing was incredible! Have a bio of him that I got in 1968 when I was in high school! He was very generous. giving away large sums of money without expecting it to be returned...He died with very little, but not in debt.
Incredible onscreen presence, A Man's Man. One tough guy that never had to act tough- He Was! Probably my favorite actor , I love movies 25 to 35 years older than me. What an era, humble- true grit. ❤❤❤ a true fan 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Sounds like Raft was very independent as far as his choices with scripts.
He is one of my favorites.
What ever that it factor was he had loads of it.
Great actor and dancer. Love his movies. 🌈💥💥🌈❤️🌞🦋
I love George Raft!! Love the movies he made
I love George and his films as well.
This is great it takes me back to my childhood/youth. I always used to watch all the old Hollywood films, especially late on Saturday afternoons. Saw them all. ( 1960's & 70's).
Loved George Raft, he was very charismatic, but his acting was limited. He was more of a personality, than an actor's actor. I recall him being asked about why he turned down such great iconic parts & he said he wasn't too sharp in that department, hence he declined such stellar roles. Some director's also questioned his ability. But at the end of the day he was iconic in his own way. He was a great dancer, good looking, always well dressed, etc. He is/was quite fascinating. When work in Hollywood dried up his came to England quite a bit & picked up work. Though at one time he was refused entry due to his "unsavoury" connections ! But he had people rooting for him over here.
Raft perhaps the best gangster actor of all time
He aged well, too!
He did not drink any alcohol is why. If you look at others who were well known heavy boozers, it's obvious why he looked good. Look what happened to William Holden's face. So sad.
I have his autograph, I was given an autograph book with his, Maralyn Maxwell & Richard Attenboroughs autographs in and many others.
Great info on George Raft, I will also get the book. He was a great dresser and very good dancer.
A complete actor...he really was...
Always one of my favorites!
The only tough Hollywood guy that could tango. Check out his dance with Janet Blair in 1942's Broadway film.
Thanks for the recommendation!
@@TheSprocketVault I hope you've seen it.
He did it his way....A super-sexy dancer and man....He had his career....bigger than a lot of them....So what if he blew his money on Gambling....Woman and whatever else he wanted....I like that about him....George Raft was not the only Person in Hollywood who knew “Tough Guys”....by far....Would loved to have met him....and danced the Tango with him....Valerie Craft Kitover
I liked Raft as a good guy in the movie "Nocturne" made in the mid 1940s, he played police inspector Joe Warren. I'm surprised that movie wasn't mentioned in this video.
Glad I bought this book- it really illuminated the life of this talented, sexy man of his time. His charisma resonates across the century. Unfortunate career advice and/ or choices yet he remains a legend. I really wish he had portrayed Duke Mantee. My favorite-They Drive By Night.
My most sincere thanks, jewels. Blessings.
HE WAS GREAT !!!!
Great dancer
Raft was a great dancer see "Bolero" 1934 and "Rumba" 1935
Is a fantastic book the great detail about George Rafts life and I have would highly recommend reading the book he had long career and when you consider that other actors of the same time disappeared George continue to work until the end of his life. We may not know it but his sartorial style is still amongst us the black shirt and white tie and smart suits. George was a product of era. Stone Wallace has found minute details regarding George's life and he should be very proud of the finished product
My cousin! Love it
Thank you, Bambino. I'm honored and flattered by your kind words.
Thank you, Linda. Blessings.
I think his best role was Spats Colombo in "Some Like it Hot." He plays straight man to comedic shenanigans of Lemmon, Curtis, Monroe, and Director Billy WIlder.
I LOVED HIS MOVIES..
Your book is great. You brought truth and humanity to this great star. I hope one day he is rediscovered. Harvard has rediscovered You and Me. Maybe someday soon.
Great Documentary. Thanks much!
Great tango dancer. Sad that he was used by other stars, so that he would not take the rold. I liked his films.
Great action actor who was far better than most of his reviews. Like Bogart he didnt need hold a gun to be tough. See Nocturne
By refusing to play in such great movies as " The Maltese Falcon ", " High Sierra ", and " Casablanca ", Mister George Raft ( as John Huston used to call him ), signed the end of his career, and opened the road to Humphrey Bogart ...
Poor George Raft, who finished his days in a studio appartement, whose rent was paid by Franck Sinatra !!!
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He lost all of his money in Cuba.
I heard him say that he never watched any of the movies he was in.
Very sexy guy!
You failed to mention what a geat da ncer he was and this was often a big box office draw.
He was an awesome dancer.
He was an exceptionally good shimmy dancer. Just as good as Cab Calloway.
There is s clip on YT featuring Raft at a club performing the shimmy dance.
Not only was he a good dancer he was
a rhythmic performer.
Yeah, I like George Raft movies. I really think he was very good actor. Him and Marilyn Monroe
Fred Mcmery was monumental in that movie
I heard years ago he had a thing for Betty grable But then what man wouldn’t she was hot
Excellent quick biography. However the tongue-in-cheek version of CASINO ROYALE was no mega disaster but a delightful little parody which, unfortunately, lost it's way. But it is chance to see David Niven, Deborah Kerr and John Huston in their later years have a little fun to a Herb Alpert score. Throw in Orson Welles, William Holden and yes, George Raft, and it does what movies are supposed to do, entertain you.
You didn’t mention that He was a true traditional Catholic!
That’s fascinating since I’ve read completely different religions and heritage. Think in those days nothing. was real.
What are these accompanying photographs that have absolutely nothing to do with anything connected with his early career I don't even know what these photos treasury photos are from the 50s 60s
George was cool bad mother WATCH YOUR MOUTH!!!!
Sadly, I can't imagine him in any of those roles he turned down, like Maltese Falcon, or Double Indemnity, or Casablanca.
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Need to say his last name right.
*What a crock of shit!* *By the mid-1950's, ALL the 'Gods of the Screen' since 1927 were suddenly irrelevant by virtue of television
and 'what was' in the 20's and 30's was made trivial by the events of WW-2*
*Gable had been the 'King of Hollywood' as well as being an authentic 'War Hero' who served in deadly combat missions in a 'B-17'
and even he was having difficulties in getting 'good roles' with a couple of rare exceptions like 'The Misfits'*
*Cagney/Bogart/Tracy/Robinson/and all the other 'Stars' were suddenly overcome by time and societal changes, as well as their own
images of 'who they are' in a movie*
*There was no place for them in 'new' movies like "Roman Holiday" or "The Bridges Of Toko Ri" or "On The Waterfront"*
( *Tracy was an exception in that he was more willing to play a 'subordinate role' in movies like "The Mountain" and "Guess Who's Coming
To Dinner"* )
*Raft had simply become a 'character of himself' as well as being old, and many offers made to him he turned down simply because
he couldn't be anything more than what he was, and he knew it*
*"The only thing I've ever really played is myself" was his assessment..."You see me in "Bolero" and what you see isn't acting, what you're
seeing is the 'real Me' because I lived most of what you see on the screen"*
I agree with everything except Gable in the 1950's! I saw nearly every picture that he
made in that decade & he was working non-stop until his death in 1960!
@@rongendron8705 *Yes, he made many movies and some were pretty good roles. like 'Mogambo' and "Soldier Of Fortune' but other roles...the movie and production values weren't up to his stature*
Acting is a business. He really was not a great judge of work to accept. I like him. But I ad heard this story years back.
I remember seeing George Raft with my father when I was about 10. I can remember thinking. That bloke can’t flip a coin properly and he is not believable. I’m convinces his career was based on the influence of his mobster friends.
Raft made too many bad decisions. An unfortunate circumstance.
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I know I'm going to be in trouble but as far as I'm concerned he's a one-trick pony he's the same and absolutely every role a lot of people were but