Born on this day – George Raft:

George Raft

Actor

Singer

Dancer

Producer

September 26, 1901 – November 24, 1980

Credits:

A Bullet for Joey (1955); A Dangerous Profession (1949); A Show Business Salute to Milton Berle (1973); About Faces (1960); AFI Life Achievement Award (1974); Air Force: The Radio Play (1943); All of Me (1934); All This and World War II (1976); American Justice: Target - Mafia (1993); American Masters (2020); America's 60 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries and Crimes (2010); Arena (2012); Around the World in 80 Days (1956); Background to Danger (1943); Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album (2003); Batman (1967); Betty Hughes and Friends (1970); Biography (2001); Black Widow (1954); Bogart (1967); Bolero (1934); Breakdowns of 1940 (1940); Breakdowns of 1941 (1941); Breakdowns of 1942 (1942); Broadway (1942); Brooklyn Bridge (1981); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Bullets Over Hollywood (2005); Casino Royale (1967); Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940); Celebrity Time (1952); Century of Cinema (1995); Christmas Eve (1947); Compression (2015–2024); Curtains for Roy Earle: The Story of 'High Sierra' (2003); Dancers in the Dark (1932); Deadhead Miles (1972); Della (1969); Divided Highway: The Story of 'They Drive by Night' (2003); Each Dawn I Die (1939); Entertaining the Troops (1988); Every Night at Eight (1935); Five Golden Dragons (1967); Follow the Boys (1944); For Those Who Think Young (1964); Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011); Frankenpimp's Revenge: The Romeo and Juliet Massacre (2020); George Jessel Show (1958); Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929); Goldie (1931); Hammersmith Is Out (1972); Happy Days (1970); Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (1941); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hippodrome (1966); History's Greatest Mysteries (2023); Hollywood and the Stars (1963–1964); Hollywood Greats (1979); Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 (1934); Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. B-8 (1934); Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983); Hollywood Park (1946); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Hush Money (1931); I Stole a Million (1939); If I Had a Million (1932); I'll Get You (1952); I'm the Law (1953); In This Corner... Boxing's Little Giants (1993); Inside Beverly Hills (1956); Intrigue (1947); Invisible Stripes (1939); It Had to Happen (1936); I've Got a Secret (1953); James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy (1981); Jet Over the Atlantic (1959); Johnny Allegro (1949); Johnny Angel (1945); Land of Liberty (1939); Limehouse Blues (1934); Loan Shark (1952); Love Is a Racket (1932); Lucky Nick Cain (1951); Madame Racketeer (1932); Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her (1994); Mafia's Greatest Hits (2012); Main Event (1961); Manpower (1941); Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play (1941); Midnight Club (1933); Mobsters (2007); Momo: The Sam Giancana Story (2011); Mr. Ace (1946); Murderers, Mobsters and Madmen: Hollywood Police Blotter (1992); Night After Night (1932); Night World (1932); Nob Hill (1945); Nocturne (1946); Nous irons à Paris (1950); Ocean's Eleven (1960); Outpost in Morocco (1949); Palmy Days (1931); Pick-up (1933); Picture People Vol. 2 No. 10: Hollywood at Home (1942); Presidential Blooper Reel (1981); Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film (2008); Queen of the Night Clubs (1929); Quick Millions (1931); Race Street (1948); Red Light (1949); Red Skelton Timex Special (1960); Red Skelton: A Career of Laughter (1992); Red Skelton: A Comedy Scrapbook (1981); Rogue Cop (1954); Rogues Gallery (1997); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1971); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in: 25th Anniversary Reunion (1993); Rumba (1935); Scarface (1932); Screen Snapshots, Series 16, No. 11 (1937); Screen Snapshots, Series 17, No. 1 (1937); Screen Snapshots, Series 18, No. 4 (1938); Screen Snapshots, Series 20, No. 7 (1941); Screen Snapshots, Series 21, No. 10 (1942); Screen Snapshots, Series 28, No. 8: Vacation at Del Mar (1949); Sextette (1977); She Couldn't Take It (1935); Side Street (1929); Sidney Korshak, la face cachée d'Hollywood (2014); Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015); Skidoo (1968); Some Like It Hot (1959); Souls at Sea (1937); Spawn of the North (1938); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Stage Show (1955–1956); Stolen Harmony (1935); Taxi (1931); The Arthur Murray Party (1959); The Bowery (1933); The Chicago Teddy Bears (1971); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1951–1955); The David Frost Show (1969); The Dean Martin Show (1970); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1966); The Ed Sullivan Show (1949–1964); The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935); The Generation Game (1974); The Gisele MacKenzie Show (1957); The Glass Key (1935); The Great Sex War (1969); The House Across the Bay (1940); The Jack Benny Program (1955); The Jimmy Durante Show (1955–1956); The Joey Bishop Show (1967–1968); The Jonathan Winters Show (1968); The Ladies Man (1961); The Lady's from Kentucky (1939); The Lee Phillip Show (1963); The Man from Cairo (1953); The Man with Bogart's Face (1980); The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (1973); The Merv Griffin Show (1966–1970); The Mike Douglas Show (1969–1980); The Milton Berle Show (1953–1954); The Movie Game (1970); The Name's the Same (1953–1955); The New London Palladium Show (1965); The Patsy (1964); The Red Skelton Hour (1955–1960); The Return of Video Yesterbloop (1986); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1959); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1971); The Trumpet Blows (1934); The Upper Hand (1966); The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990); They Drive by Night (1940); Today (1966–1974); Tribute to Bogart (1972); Two Guys Abroad (1962); Under-Cover Man (1932); Vegas: The City the Mob Made (2009); What's My Line? (1953); Whistle Stop (1946); With Orson Welles: Stories of A Life in Film (1990); You and Me (1938); Yours for the Asking (1936).

On this day in movie history - Midnight Club (1933)

Midnight Club

directed by Alexander Hall and George Somnes,

written by Leslie Charteris and Seton I. Miller,

based on the 1931 short story Gangster’s Glory by E. Phillips Oppenheim,

was released in the United States on July 29, 1933.

Music by W. Franke Harling and Howard Jackson.

Cast:

Clive Brook, George Raft, Helen Vinson, Alison Skipworth, Sir Guy Standing, Alan Mowbray, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Forrester Harvey, Ethel Griffies, Teru Shimada, Charles Coleman, Billy Bevan, Jean De Briac, Leo White, Rita Carlyle, Dennis O’Keefe.

On this day in movie history - They Drive by Night (1940)

They Drive by Night

directed by Raoul Walsh,

written by Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay,

based on the novel Long Haul by A. I. Bezzerides,

was released in the United States on July 26, 1940.

Music by Adolph Deutsch.

Cast:

George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Alan Hale, Roscoe Karns, John Litel, George Tobias, Henry O’Neill, Charles Halton, Paul Hurst, John Ridgely, George Lloyd, Joyce Compton, Charles Wilson, Pedro Regas, Norman Willis, Joe Devlin, William Haade, Vera Lewis, John Hamilton, Eddie Acuff, Howard Hickman, Lillian Yarbo.

On this day in movie history - Race Street (1948)

Race Street

directed by Edwin L. Marin,

written by Martin Rackin,

was released in the United States on June 22, 1948.

Based on the story Race Street by Maurice Davis, originally published in Turf and Sport Digest (1945).

Music by Roy Webb.

Cast:

George Raft, William Bendix, Marilyn Maxwell, Frank Faylen, Harry Morgan, Gale Robbins, Cully Richards, Mack Gray, Russell Hicks, Tom Keene, William Forrest, James Nolan, George Turner, Richard Benedict, Dean White, Freddie Steele.

On this day in movie history - Loan Shark (1952)

Loan Shark

directed by Seymour Friedman,

written by Eugene Ling and Martin Rackin,

based on a story by Martin Rackin,

was released in the United States on May 23, 1952.

Music by Heinz Roemheld.

Cast:

George Raft, Dorothy Hart, Paul Stewart, John Hoyt, Helen Westcott, Henry Slate, Russell Johnson, Margia Dean, Benny Baker, Lawrence Dobkin, Robert Bice, Ralph Brooks, Claire Carleton, Virginia Carroll, Russell Custer, Jack Daley, Mike Donovan, George Eldredge, Ross Elliott, Rudy Germane, Dick Gordon, Jack Gordon, Herschel Graham, Joe Hinds, Robert Karnes, Robert Lawson, Charles Meredith, Spring Mitchell, Hans Moebus, William H. O'Brien, Frank O'Connor, William 'Bill' Phillips, William Phipps, Mike Ragan, Keith Richards, John Roy, Brick Sullivan, William Tannen, Harlan Warde, Robert B. Williams, Barbara Wooddell.

On this day in movie history - Nocturne (1946)

Nocturne

directed by Edwin L. Marin,

written by Jonathan Latimer,

based on a story by Roland Brown and Frank Fenton,

was released in the United States on October 29, 1946.

Music by Leigh Harline.

Cast:

George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston, Joseph Pevney, Myrna Dell, Edward Ashley, Walter Sande, Mabel Paige, Bern Hoffman, Queenie Smith, Virginia Keiley, Mack Gray, Lilian Bond, Rudy Robles, Greta Granstedt, Carol Forman, William Challee.

On this day in movie history - Black Widow (movie & novel):

Black Widow

directed by Nunnally Johnson,

written by Nunnally Johnson, Hugh Wheeler, Richard W. Webb / Patrick Quentin,

based on the novel Black Widow a.k.a Fatal Woman by Patrick Quentin,

released in the United States on October 27, 1954.

Music by Leigh Harline.

Cast:

Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, George Raft, Peggy Ann Garner, Reginald Gardiner, Virginia Leith, Otto Kruger, Cathleen Nesbitt, Skip Homeier, Hilda Simms, Mabel Albertson, Edward Astran, Bea Benaderet, Mary Benoit, Nesdon Booth, Paul Bradley, Harry Carter, Paul Cristo, Oliver Cross, Frances Curry, Richard H. Cutting, Anthony De Mario, Franklyn Farnum, Dick Gordon, Robert Haines, Kenner G. Kemp, Paul Kruger, Robert Locke Lorraine, Virginia Maples, Harold Miller, Forbes Murray, Monty O'Grady, Leoda Richards, Loretta Russell, Cosmo Sardo, Jeffrey Sayre, Aaron Spelling, Bert Stevens, James Stone, Arthur Tovey, Michael Vallon, Geraldine Wall, Pat White, Frank Wilcox, Wilson Wood.

Recommended reading:

Black Widow

a.k.a Fatal Woman

by Patrick Quentin.

ASIN: B00231R78W

Published by Simon & Schuster.

Published 1952.

Description:

Duluth, a Broadway producer and amateur detective, is baffled when his wife, Iris, discovers the body of Nanny Ordway, an aspiring writer he had recently befriended.