Author: [20th Century Photographer]
Title: George Raft
Description: London: Paramount Pictures, [Ca. 1930s]. Original B&W sepia toned photograph issued as a postcard. 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Very Good+. Made in Great Britain. Scarce. George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1901 – 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 Scarface (1932), Each Dawn I Die (1939), and Billy Wilder's comedy Some Like It Hot (1959), as a dancer in Bolero (1934), and a truck driver in They Drive by Night (1940). .

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