Gene Raymond
Gene Raymond, born Raymond Guion, was an American film, television, and stage actor of the 1930s and 1940s. In addition to acting, Raymond was also a composer, writer, director, producer, and decorated military pilot. His screen debut was in Personal Maid (1931). Another early appearance was in the multi-director If I Had a Million with W. C. Fields and Charles Laughton. With his blond good looks, classic profile, and youthful exuberance — plus a name change to the more pronounceable "Gene Raymond" — he scored in films like the classic Zoo in Budapest with Loretta Young, and a series of light RKO musicals, mostly with Ann Sothern. He wrote a number of songs, including the popular "Will You?" which he sang to Sothern in Smartest Girl in Town. His wife, Jeanette MacDonald, sang several of his more classical pieces in her concerts and recorded one entitled "Let Me Always Sing". His most notable films, mostly as a second lead actor, include Red Dust (1932) with Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, Zoo in Budapest with Loretta Young, Ex-Lady with Bette Davis, Flying Down to Rio with Dolores del Río, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, I Am Suzanne with Lilian Harvey, Sadie McKee with Joan Crawford, Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. and Mrs. Smith with Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery, and The Locket with Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, and Robert Mitchum. MacDonald and Raymond made one film together, Smilin' Through, which came out as the U.S. was on the verge of entering World War II. After service in the United States Army Air Forces Raymond returned to Hollywood. He wrote, directed and starred in the 1949 film Million Dollar Weekend. In later years he appeared in only a few films. His last major film was The Best Man in 1964 with Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson. In the 1950s he mostly worked in television, appearing in Playhouse of Stars, Fireside Theatre, Hollywood Summer Theater and TV Reader's Digest. In the 1970s he appeared on ABC Television Network's Paris 7000 and had guest roles in The Outer Limits, Robert Montgomery Presents, Playhouse 90, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Ironside, The Defenders, Mannix, The Name of the Game, Lux Video Theatre, Kraft Television Theatre and U.S. Steel Hour. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gene Raymond, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as JeffHappily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks...
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Flying Down to Rio
as Roger BondA dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.
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The Best Man
as Don CantwellThe other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has...
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
as William MageeA writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the...
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The Locket
as John WillisA dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
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Red Dust
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The Woman in Red
as John 'Johnny' WyattA professional jockey struggles to fit in with her new husband's upper-crust family in this...
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If I Had a Million
as John Wallace (uncredited)An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to...
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Love on a Bet
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Ex-Lady
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The Hanged Man
as Whitey DevlinA gunman whose best friend has been murdered enacts a plan to blackmail the corrupt labor union...
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Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound...
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Assigned to Danger
as Dan SullivanA gang of bank robbers is pursued by an insurance investigator.
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Forgotten Commandments
as Paul OssipoffA framework story serves as context for a retelling of the Exodus story and, most importantly, a...
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I Am Suzanne!
as Tony MalatiniA dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. ...
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Five Bloody Graves
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Plunder Road
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Hit the Deck
as Wendell CraigSailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business.
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The Life of the Party
as Barry SaundersA singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
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Brief Moment
as Rodney DeaneA high living society playboy marries a nightclub singer, and she soon realizes that, though...
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Behold My Wife!
as Michael CarterAfter Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy...
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Sadie McKee
as TommyA maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
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Zoo in Budapest
as ZaniZani is an unusual young man who has spent his entire life in a zoo in Budapest. His only true...
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The Bride Walks Out
as Michael MartinCarolyn Martin is a fashion model who hastily marries her boyfriend, engineer Michael Martin....
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Hooray for Love
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Ladies of the Big House
as Standish McNeilA woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a...
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Smilin' Through
as Kenneth 'Ken' Wayne / Jeremy 'Jerry' WayneJohn Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride,...
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Stolen Heaven
as CarlTwo attractive jewel thieves, one female (Olympe Bradna), one male (Gene Raymond) escape...
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Cross-Country Romance
as Lawrence SmithA runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
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Million Dollar Weekend
as Nicholas LawrenceA stock broker embezzles a million bucks and plans to take off to Shanghai. A number of...
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I'd Rather Be Rich
as Martin WoodAn updated remake of It Started With Eve (1941). A young heiress is summoned to the bedside of...
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Sofia
as Steve RoarkA former OSS agent is assigned to rescue two atomic scientists from the dastardly Russians and...
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The House on 56th Street
as Monte Van TyleA beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits...
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She's Got Everything
as Fuller PartridgeThe day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's...
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Transient Lady
as Carey MarshallA senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows...
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Coming Out Party
as Chris HansenIn this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants...
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That Girl from Paris
as Windy McLeanNikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping...
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Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
as Jimmy BrettUnderworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been...
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Ann Carver's Profession
as William GrahamNewlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney...
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Smartest Girl in Town
as Richard Stuyvesant SmithA girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.
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The Night of June 13
as Herbert MorrowElna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow....
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Personal Maid
as Dick GaryNora Ryan, a poor Irish girl, living in New York decides to change her life by working as a...
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Walking on Air
as Pete Quinlan / Count Pierre Louis de MarsacA strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him...
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There Goes My Girl
as Jerry MartinJerry and Connie are engaged to be married, but they're also rival newspaper reporters, and when...
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Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts
as SelfA look at the screen triumphs and private lives of the screen's number-one singing team.
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Ironside
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Ironside
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Climax!
as Grady LedererClimax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...
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Mannix
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Emergency!
as J.P. DumontThe crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and...
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Studio One
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Burke's Law
as Arthur WadeBurke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on...
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The Outer Limits
as SawyerThe Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes...
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The F.B.I.
as Harlan FranciscusThe F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...
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The Ed Sullivan Show
as SelfThe Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...
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The Red Skelton Show
as GeneralThe Red Skelton Show is an American variety show that was a television staple for two decades,...
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Laredo
as uncreditedLaredo is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from September 16, 1965, to...
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The Name of the Game
as Senator ReelandThe Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and...
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Tales of Tomorrow
as uncreditedTales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and...
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The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as PhilThe Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from...
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Col. Allan MorganAgents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the...
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Judd for the Defense
as uncreditedHigh-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases...
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Johnny Ringo
as Silky CarterJohnny Ringo is an American Western television series starring Don Durant that aired on CBS from...
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The Ford Television Theatre
as StanleyThis show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to...
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as uncreditedSam Benedict is an American legal drama that aired on NBC from September 1962 to March 1963. The...
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The Invisible Man
as Sen. Albert HanoverDr. Daniel Westin creates a formula to be used for matter transformation. To test the formula he...
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The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
as Walter MarkleThe Bold Ones: The New Doctors is an American medical drama that lasted for four seasons on NBC,...
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Channing
as Matt BellamyProfessor Joe Howe is a Korean War veteran who is hired to teach English at Channing College....
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The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen
as John NilesMake way for the reluctant detective. It's Ellery Queen, the suave, debonair and brilliant hero...
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Kraft Television Theatre
as Andy ClementsKraft Television Theatre is an American drama/anthology television series
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Letter to Loretta
as Mark ColbyLetter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to...
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The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
as SelfEd Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures from the 1920s to the 1960s.
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McNaughton's Daughter
as Emory Latimer JohnsSeries pilot about a female deputy district attorney assigned the task of trying to pin a murder...
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as US Army MajorSchlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....
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