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	George Raft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Raft (September 26, 1895 - November 24, 1980) was an American film actor most closely identified with his portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s.
		Raft was considered one of Hollywood's most dapper and stylish dressers and he achieved a level of celebrity not entirely commensurate with the quality or popularity of his films.
		Raft died from leukaemia in Los Angeles, California and was interred in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.
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	HOW GEORGE RAFT MADE HUMPHREY BOGART A STAR
		George Raft grew up in Hell’s Kitchen, New York, where he was a childhood friend of Owney Madden.
		Raft had every reason to believe that the next remake would be a flop as well.
		In a three-year period, George Raft sabotaged himself and helped Humphrey Bogart launch a career that has resulted in him being regarded as the greatest actor of all time.
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		Raft, George (1895–1980), American film actor, often cast as a sharp-eyed gangster.
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		Raft, George (1895–1980), American motion picture actor, often cast as a sharp-eyed gangster.
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	Encyclopedia: George Raft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		George Raft from They Drive by Night This is a screenshot of a copyrighted movie or television program.
		Gangsters are members of a professional crime organization, such as a gang or a mafia group.
		Leukemia (leukaemia in Commonwealth English) is a group of blood diseases characterized by malignancies (cancer) of the blood-forming tissues.
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	Turner Classic Movies This Month Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A prizefighter and ballroom dancer at a young age, Raft had enjoyed high levels of income and popularity in the 1930s, but by the mid-1940s public perception of him as a gangster and hoodlum was bringing him down.
		Years later, Raft commented on his unsavory image and problems in Hollywood: "I was born in a gang neighborhood [the Hell's Kitchen area of New York], brought up with gangsters and given a movie career by friends in the underworld.
		Raft plays a ship's captain searching New Orleans for clues to the murder of his father, also a captain whose ship was hijacked of its gold shipment and found adrift and abandoned.
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	George Raft \| Biography (1895-1980)
		George Raft was born in New York in 1895.
		Raft was a close friend of notorious gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel since they were boys together in New York.
		Raft was married to Grace Mulrooney from 1923 to her death in 1970 and though they split up soon after the marriage she would never let him divorce her.
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	Biography for George Raft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		George Raft was born and grew up in a poor family in "Hell's Kitchen";, one of the meanest areas of New York City.
		Raft exploited his own somewhat shady mob connections in Broadway (1942) by playing a whitewashed version of himself.
		Raft, a married man whose wife refused to divorce him, was involved with many women, most notably Betty Grable, with whom he carried on an extraordinarily public courtship in the early 1940s.
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	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: George Raft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Raft's acting career was based on the premise that as a former gangster himself (he was friends with racketeer Owney Maddon and at one time aspired to be a big shot in Maddon's liquor mob), he would excel at playing one.
		Raft preferred playing tough, brutal men who were revealed to be not as cold and heartless as they pretended.
		Raft was born in New York City in 1903 and was brought up in the Hell's Kitchen area.
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	George Raft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Raft came to Hollywood in 1928, and was initially touted as the next Valentino.
		Raft's success and believability in these films may have been partially due to his continuing association with real-life mobsters, including Bugsy Siegel, and his ownership of casinos in London and Havana.
		Raft was born George Ranft on Sept. 27, 1895, in New York City, NY.
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		George Raft (September 26, 1985 - November 24, 1980) was an Americann film actor most closely identified with his portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s.
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	They Drive by Night - George Raft, Humphrey Bogart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bogart and Raft have good rapport - they look and act enough like brothers - and Walsh was in his element with tough loving men and tough talking women, but this one really takes its time before it develops any forward momentum.
		Humphrey Bogart, George Raft, Ann Sheridan and Ida Lupino.
		George Raft and Humphrey Bogart are two hard-working brothers just trying to get ahead in the truck driving business.
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	Honorary Academy Awards Nomination : George Raft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sure, George pulled some big-time career boners, and maybe he would not have been as effective as the great Bogie in some of his film turnovers.
		But George Raft presented a singular image that will NEVER be duplicated or replaced.
		Raft wasn't responsible just for helping Bogart out in his career by turning down roles nobody knew would be hits - he left a mark on movie history that indeed no other actor could have.
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	George Raft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		George Raft stars as a Barbary Coast saloon owner who romances Nob Hill debutante Joan Bennett as well as saloon dancer Vivian Blaine.
		George Raft stars as an egotistical dancer who uses his various female partners to get to the top before falling for his latest partner Carol Lombard.
		Raft is a right hand man to a powerful politician (Edward Arnold) who is implicated in a murder scandal and tries to uncover the facts.
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	Dancer History Archives by StreetSwing.com - George Raft - Main Page
		George Raft was originally a Taxi-Dancer who earned about seventy-five dollars (American) a week dancing with the ladies at a public restaurant-dance palace called the 'El Fey Club' in New York.
		He was labeled as 'Hollywood's Gigolo' by many fan magazines, but Raft did not like that term very much, when asked about it, he would only say 'it did not apply to him'.
		Raft went on to become a featured actor in many movies, even though he started out as a dancer, he only danced in a few of his movies.
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	Amazon.ca: Video: Night After Night [IMPORT] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Raft and West had been lovers when she was starring on Broadway.
		Raft is convincingly melancholic as Joe Anton, owner of "the swellest speakeasy in New York".
		George Raft plays the lead as the owner of a Speakeasy who longs for things that money alone can't buy: prestige, class, a worthy lady-wife and going up the social ladder.
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	They Drive by Night
		George Raft and Humphrey Bogart share a driving ambition in They Drive by Night, a feisty tale of brothers trying to make a go of their independent trucking enterprise.
		Bogey and Raft are perfect onscreen brothers, If you want more Bogey or Raft this is a good one, or if you want both of them together this is the only film, but a good film.
		The Fabrini brothers, Joe (George Raft) and Paul (Humphrey Bogart), are truck drivers that struggle to make it on their own as a loan shark is on their heels trying to repossess their truck.
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		George Raft was originally a Taxi-Dancer who earned about seventy-five dollars a week dancing with the ladies at a public restaurant-dance palace called.
		George Raft had worked for a real gangster, Owney Madden, and his character in Scarface was based on Caponeâs real-life bodyguard and best friend.
		George Raft said it best when he refused to star in a little movie at Jack Warner's behest back in 1941: "I strongly feel that The Maltese Falcon is not an.
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		I doubt that Raft turned them down because he wanted to help Bogart become a star (not least because Bogart upsaged Raft in Walsh's "They Drive by Night"), and it is now inconceivable that anyone else could have played those signature Bogart parts.
		Raft did accept Walsh/Warner Brothers' invitation to play spy Joe Barton in "Background to Danger," the 1943 adaptation of an Eric Ambled thriller "Uncommon Danger," with a plot that ranges from oil company chicanery to Nazis trying to stir up Turks against Russians.
		Raft is boring and cannot jump a single story to the ground or climb a tree with any grace.
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		This sturdy action picture stars George Raft as Gerard, a dashing Foreign Legionnaire whom the ladies can`t resist.
		When he is assigned the job of escorting the lovely daughter (Marie Windsor) of the emir of Bel Rashad back to her father`s palace, th...
		In George Romero's KNIGHTRIDERS, Sir William (Ed Harris) and his followers exist in a Camelot-like utopian state of their own devise, separate from mainstream society.
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		Norma Shearer and George Raft were the talk of the movie world when they began dating in the late 30's.
		Norma was attracted to George's dark handsome looks and he was in awe of her sophistication charm and beauty.
		It is commonly said that she was in love with George, but for her love always needed to be confirmed by marriage, so she gave him up and went elsewhere to seek her personal happiness.
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	George Raft Reviews
		George Raft's portrayal of detective Joe Warner is a bit wooden, but the film is interesting enough to overlook its flaws.
		Tony (Raft), Kitty (McDonald), and Nick West (Grapewin), a brother-sister-father trio, have just finished doing their turkey of an act at the Palace in New York, and Tony suggests that they try their luck in Hollywood.
		Dorothy Lamour has one of the best dramatic roles of her career as the cannery girl torn between Raft and Fonda and Barrymore is excellent in one of his best "character" parts as a drunken newspaperman but the emphasis is on action.
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	Amazon.com: Each Dawn I Die (1939) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The relationship between Cagney and Raft is well developed and serves as the core of the film.
		George Raft was smooth in his role as a career gangster who'd gotten caught one (or two) times too many.
		James Cagney and George Raft are in the prime of their respective careers in this film about life in prison.
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		The book was first adapted as the 1967 spy spoof starring Peter Sellers, David Niven, Orson Welles and George Raft, although the comedy is not considered part of the Bond canon.
		The Capri, which will get a $15 million overhaul, was run for the mob by American actor George Raft until President Fidel Castro swept into power in a 1959 revolution that sent the gangsters running.
		In 1933, the year of King Kong, she appeared in 11 films, co-starring with Beery, George Raft, Cooper, Jack Holt and others.
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		George Raft was born and grew up in a poor family in "Hell's Kitchen";...
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