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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.
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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.
1967
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.
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Gender
Male
Birthday
August 13, 1908
Died
May 2, 1998
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
Sofia
1948
Ann Carver's Profession
1933
The Locket
1946
Personal Maid
1931
Ladies of the Big House
1931
Love on a Bet
1936
Sadie McKee
1934
She's Got Everything
1937
Plunder Road
1957
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941
I Am Suzanne!
1933
I'd Rather Be Rich
1964
Transient Lady
1935
Forgotten Commandments
1932
Stolen Heaven
1938
Smartest Girl in Town
1936
There Goes My Girl
1937
Where's Charley?
1957
Woman on the Run
1959
Red Dust
1932
+ 27 more movies
The Red Skelton Show
1951
Ironside
1967
Ironside
1967
Mannix
1967
Climax!
1954
Emergency!
1972
Studio One
1948
The F.B.I.
1965
The Outer Limits
1963
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Matinee Theater
1955
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
Johnny Ringo
1959
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
Burke's Law
1963
The Name of the Game
1968
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960
Laredo
1965
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969
+ 20 more TV shows