Gene Raymond
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- born: 13/Aug/1908 (New York, USA)
- died: 02/May/1998 (Los Angeles, California, USA) - pneumonia
Biography
Gene Raymond (born Raymond Guion) was a popular film actor of the 1930s and 1940s, and for 28 years the husband of movie star Jeanette MacDonald
He attended the Professional Children's School while appearing in productions like "Rip Van Winkle" and "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch". His Broadway debut, at age 17, was in "The Cradle Snatchers" which ran two years.
His important films, mostly as a second lead actor, include "Red Dust" (1932) with Jean Harlow, "Zoo in Budapest" (1932) with Loretta Young, "Flying Down to Rio" (1933) with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, "I Am Suzanne" (1934) with Lilian Harvey, "Sadie McKee" (1934) with Joan Crawford, Alfred Hitchcock's "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" (1941) with Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery, and "The Locket" (1946) with Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, and Robert Mitchum. He costarred with his wife in just one film, "Smilin' Through" in 1941.
Raymond was also a composer, and some of his songs were used in the series of light-hearted RKO musicals he made with Ann Sothern, or sung by his wife in concert.
Filmography
With Hitchcock...
- Mr and Mrs Smith (1941) - cast: Jefferson (Jeff) Custer