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British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. 1018. Photo: Paramount.
American actor George Raft (1901-1980) was born and grew up in a poor family in Hell's Kitchen, at the time one of the roughest, meanest areas of New York City. With his dark good looks and sharp dressing, Raft tried his luck in Hollywood. His first big role was as the coin-tossing henchman in Scarface (1932). His career was marked by numerous tough-guy roles, often a gangster or convict. The believability with which he played these, together with his lifelong associations with real-life gangsters like Bugsy Siegel, added to persistent rumours that he was also a gangster. The slightly shady reputation helped his popularity early on, but it made him somewhat undesirable to movie executives later in his career. He somewhat parodied his gangster reputation in Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot (1959).
George Raft was born George Ranft in New York in 1901. He was the eldest of ten children of German immigrant Conrad Ranft and his wife Eva Glockner. His parents worked as dancers in New York nightclubs. George grew up in poor circumstances in Hell's Kitchen, at the time one of the roughest, meanest areas of New York City. George Raft spoke fluent German, which he had learned from his parents. In his childhood, he befriended the later mobsters Bugsy Siegel and Owney Madden, who grew up in the same neighbourhoods as he did. The friendship between Siegel and Raft lasted a lifetime, with Raft making Siegel's acquaintances in Hollywood and using his popularity to support him in courtroom prosecutions. Raft ran away from home at the age of 13. In his younger years, he tried his hand as a boxer, taxi driver and nightclub dancer. His success as a dancer in New York nightclubs led him to Broadway, where he also worked as a dancer. Fred Astaire, in his autobiography 'Steps in Time' (1959), said Raft was "the neatest, fastest Charleston dancer ever. He practically floored me with his footwork." George Raft married Grayce Mulrooney in 1923 but soon after they would divorce. Grayce, a devout Catholic, refused Raft a divorce, however, and he remained married to her until her death in 1970. Raft later had several relationships with Betty Grable and Mae West. He appeared with Mae West in both her first film, Night After Night (Archie Mayo, 1932) and her last film, Sextette (Ken Hughes, 1977). He openly declared that he wanted to marry Norma Shearer, but his wife's refusal to divorce meant that his wedding plans came to nothing.
George Raft moved to Hollywood in 1929 and first played small roles there. His success came in Scarface (Howard Hawks, 1932). He played Guino Rinaldo, the aspiring gangster partner of Paul Muni, who is ultimately killed by him because of an affair with his sister. Raft's charisma made him an ideal gangster on the silver screen. Raft solidified his reputation as a movie star in the 1930s with crime and gangster films such as The Glass Key (1935). In 1938 he played the male lead in You and I, directed by Fritz Lang. He was one of the most popular actors in gangster roles of the 1930s, with James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson. Raft and Cagney worked as convicts in a prison in Each Dawn I Die (William Keighley, 1939). From 1945 his popularity waned and from then on he was mostly seen as the lead in B-movies in Film Noir style. He also took leading roles in European films. In the 1950s, Raft, along with Kosher-Nostra head Meyer Lansky and mob boss Santo Trafficante, opened the Capri Casino in Havana, which was initially financially successful. However, he lost it in 1959 to the revolution in Cuba. In 1965, Raft was accused of tax evasion because of his financial problems. However, he got off with a suspended sentence as he pleaded guilty. In 1967, Britain banned him from entering the country because of his Mafia contacts. One of his best-known later film appearances was in the comedy classic Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959), where he played the gangster boss "Spats Colombo" in a parody of his usual roles. Some Like It Hot became one of Raft's last major film appearances. In the 1960s and 1970s, the veteran star mostly had to settle for cameo appearances. Raft's last film Sam Marlow, Private Detective (Robert Day, 1980) was released in the last year of his life and was a tribute to his co-star Humphrey Bogart. George Raft died of leukaemia in Los Angeles in November 1980 at the age of 79. He was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
Sources: Ken Yousten (IMDb), Wikipedia (Dutch and English) and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
These are some little raft bundles I made with red willow, leaves and threads.
I added little snippets of text. They are small, about 3 inches long I think I can use then on journal covers, art quilts, and add them to assemblage pieces. I may be thinking of the tsunami and all the people bundling up their possessions and the little fragments of their life. I find my thoughts are often first revealed in my art work.
Do you find your art is affected by what is happening in your environment?
I know that when it is winter my palette is pale as the snowy landscape. About March, much like a plant, I begin to feel the urge of spring and my palette begins to brighten. The first green pushing up through the earth remind me…Oh yes, there is color! I see the red of the robin’s breast and a flash of bluebird, and their colors begin to appear in my palette. Spring is here.
Rafted new ice, surrounded by older ice floes, central Weddell Sea, as seen during an Operation IceBridge flight on Nov. 22, 2017. (NASA/John Sonntag)
The 2017 field season was record-breaking for Operation IceBridge, NASA’s aerial survey of the state of polar ice. For the first time in its nine-year history, the mission, which aims to close the gap between two NASA satellite campaigns that study changes in the height of polar ice, carried out seven field campaigns in the Arctic and Antarctic in a single year. In total, the IceBridge scientists and instruments flew over 214,000 miles, the equivalent of orbiting the Earth 8.6 times at the equator.
The mission of Operation IceBridge, NASA’s longest-running airborne mission to monitor polar ice, is to collect data on changing polar land and sea ice and maintain continuity of measurements between ICESat missions. The original ICESat mission launched in 2003 and ended in 2009, and its successor, ICESat-2, is scheduled for launch in the fall of 2018. Operation IceBridge began in 2009 and is currently funded until 2020. The planned overlap with ICESat-2 will help scientists connect with the satellite’s measurements.
Read more: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/big-year-for-icebridge
For more about Operation IceBridge and to follow future campaigns, visit: www.nasa.gov/icebridge
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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Last week I went on a rafting trip on the Delaware river with some church friends. I did not bring my camera because, water. Another church member took and displayed these. I am in some of them.
This is one of the early sights on a raft trip that gets rafters saying WOW. This is totally unexpected. What lies ahead.
"Thirty-two miles downstream from Lees Ferry, the Colorado River cuts into the Redwall Formation, exposing ancient groundwater passages. Vaseys Paradise is one groundwater channel system that still delivers North Rim water into Grand Canyon. Just beyond the quiet bend at South Canyon, a gushet of white water cascades down the limestone cliff on the right (west) side of the river, through a jumble of greenery, and into the mainstream. On his historic 1869 expedition through Grand Canyon, Major John Wesley Powell named it in honor of his friend and noted botanist, Dr. George Vasey. Curator of the U.S. National Herbarium and Botanist of the Department of Agriculture, Dr. Vasey never saw the springs that bear his name. The site is renowned for its scenic beauty, remarkable hydrology, and rich biodiversity."
www.azheritagewaters.nau.edu/loc_VaseysParadise.html
I went on a non-motorized Raft trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon with Arizona Raft Adventures from May 16 through May 31. Four Oar rafts, a Dory, and a paddle raft.
14 days and 225 miles from put in at Lee's Ferry to take out at Diamond Creek on the Hualapai Reservation. This was the adventure of a lifetime. I loved it.
My wife and daughter on the Rogue River, Shady Cove, Oregon
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This was a great part of our trip to Jamaica as we spent 2 1/2 hours on this bamboo raft floating down the Rio Grande towards the Caribbean sea and St Margarets Bay. There were many deep and very peaceful parts of the river as well as various rapids like these. It is quite amazing that these rafts can negotiate the shallowest of rapids yet be very stable in deep water too. View LARGE to see the rafts in front of us and how shallow the river was at this point.
British postcard by Art Photo in the Famous Film Stars series, no. 36. Caption: George Raft - Born 27th September, 1903, in New York City. Black hair, brown eyes. Height 5ft, 10 Ins. In his teens was professional fly-weight boxer. Later took up professional dancing. Has stage experience before coming to the screen. Films include: 'The Trumpet Blows', 'Limehouse Blues', 'Rumba', 'Every Night at Eight' and 'The Woman Tamer'.
American actor George Raft (1901-1980) was born and grew up in a poor family in Hell's Kitchen, at the time one of the roughest, meanest areas of New York City. With his dark good looks and sharp dressing, Raft tried his luck in Hollywood. His first big role was as the coin-tossing henchman in Scarface (1932). His career was marked by numerous tough-guy roles, often a gangster or convict. The believability with which he played these, together with his lifelong associations with real-life gangsters like Bugsy Siegel, added to persistent rumours that he was also a gangster. The slightly shady reputation helped his popularity early on, but it made him somewhat undesirable to movie executives later in his career. He somewhat parodied his gangster reputation in Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot (1959).
George Raft was born George Ranft in New York in 1901. He was the eldest of ten children of German immigrant Conrad Ranft and his wife Eva Glockner. His parents worked as dancers in New York nightclubs. George grew up in poor circumstances in Hell's Kitchen, at the time one of the roughest, meanest areas of New York City. George Raft spoke fluent German, which he had learned from his parents. In his childhood, he befriended the later mobsters Bugsy Siegel and Owney Madden, who grew up in the same neighbourhoods as he did. The friendship between Siegel and Raft lasted a lifetime, with Raft making Siegel's acquaintances in Hollywood and using his popularity to support him in courtroom prosecutions. Raft ran away from home at the age of 13. In his younger years, he tried his hand as a boxer, taxi driver and nightclub dancer. His success as a dancer in New York nightclubs led him to Broadway, where he also worked as a dancer. Fred Astaire, in his autobiography 'Steps in Time' (1959), said Raft was "the neatest, fastest Charleston dancer ever. He practically floored me with his footwork." George Raft married Grayce Mulrooney in 1923 but soon after they would divorce. Grayce, a devout Catholic, refused Raft a divorce, however, and he remained married to her until her death in 1970. Raft later had several relationships with Betty Grable and Mae West. He appeared with Mae West in both her first film, Night After Night (Archie Mayo, 1932) and her last film, Sextette (Ken Hughes, 1977). He openly declared that he wanted to marry Norma Shearer, but his wife's refusal to divorce meant that his wedding plans came to nothing.
George Raft moved to Hollywood in 1929 and first played small roles there. His success came in Scarface (Howard Hawks, 1932). He played Guino Rinaldo, the aspiring gangster partner of Paul Muni, who is ultimately killed by him because of an affair with his sister. Raft's charisma made him an ideal gangster on the silver screen. Raft solidified his reputation as a movie star in the 1930s with crime and gangster films such as The Glass Key (1935). In 1938 he played the male lead in You and I, directed by Fritz Lang. He was one of the most popular actors in gangster roles of the 1930s, with James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson. Raft and Cagney worked as convicts in a prison in Each Dawn I Die (William Keighley, 1939). From 1945 his popularity waned and from then on he was mostly seen as the lead in B-movies in Film Noir style. He also took leading roles in European films. In the 1950s, Raft, along with Kosher-Nostra head Meyer Lansky and mob boss Santo Trafficante, opened the Capri Casino in Havana, which was initially financially successful. However, he lost it in 1959 to the revolution in Cuba. In 1965, Raft was accused of tax evasion because of his financial problems. However, he got off with a suspended sentence as he pleaded guilty. In 1967, Britain banned him from entering the country because of his Mafia contacts. One of his best-known later film appearances was in the comedy classic Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959), where he played the gangster boss "Spats Colombo" in a parody of his usual roles. Some Like It Hot became one of Raft's last major film appearances. In the 1960s and 1970s, the veteran star mostly had to settle for cameo appearances. Raft's last film Sam Marlow, Private Detective (Robert Day, 1980) was released in the last year of his life and was a tribute to his co-star Humphrey Bogart. George Raft died of leukaemia in Los Angeles in November 1980 at the age of 79. He was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
Sources: Ken Yousten (IMDb), Wikipedia (Dutch and English) and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
British postcard, no. 58. Photo: Paramount Pictures.
American actor George Raft (1901-1980) was born and grew up in a poor family in Hell's Kitchen, at the time one of the roughest, meanest areas of New York City. With his dark good looks and sharp dressing, Raft tried his luck in Hollywood. His first big role was as the coin-tossing henchman in Scarface (1932). His career was marked by numerous tough-guy roles, often a gangster or convict. The believability with which he played these, together with his lifelong associations with real-life gangsters like Bugsy Siegel, added to persistent rumours that he was also a gangster. The slightly shady reputation helped his popularity early on, but it made him somewhat undesirable to movie executives later in his career. He somewhat parodied his gangster reputation in Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot (1959).
George Raft was born George Ranft in New York in 1901. He was the eldest of ten children of German immigrant Conrad Ranft and his wife Eva Glockner. His parents worked as dancers in New York nightclubs. George grew up in poor circumstances in Hell's Kitchen, at the time one of the roughest, meanest areas of New York City. George Raft spoke fluent German, which he had learned from his parents. In his childhood, he befriended the later mobsters Bugsy Siegel and Owney Madden, who grew up in the same neighbourhoods as he did. The friendship between Siegel and Raft lasted a lifetime, with Raft making Siegel's acquaintances in Hollywood and using his popularity to support him in courtroom prosecutions. Raft ran away from home at the age of 13. In his younger years, he tried his hand as a boxer, taxi driver and nightclub dancer. His success as a dancer in New York nightclubs led him to Broadway, where he also worked as a dancer. Fred Astaire, in his autobiography 'Steps in Time' (1959), said Raft was "the neatest, fastest Charleston dancer ever. He practically floored me with his footwork." George Raft married Grayce Mulrooney in 1923 but soon after they would divorce. Grayce, a devout Catholic, refused Raft a divorce, however, and he remained married to her until her death in 1970. Raft later had several relationships with Betty Grable and Mae West. He appeared with Mae West in both her first film, Night After Night (Archie Mayo, 1932) and her last film, Sextette (Ken Hughes, 1977). He openly declared that he wanted to marry Norma Shearer, but his wife's refusal to divorce meant that his wedding plans came to nothing.
George Raft moved to Hollywood in 1929 and first played small roles there. His success came in Scarface (Howard Hawks, 1932). He played Guino Rinaldo, the aspiring gangster partner of Paul Muni, who is ultimately killed by him because of an affair with his sister. Raft's charisma made him an ideal gangster on the silver screen. Raft solidified his reputation as a movie star in the 1930s with crime and gangster films such as The Glass Key (1935). In 1938 he played the male lead in You and I, directed by Fritz Lang. He was one of the most popular actors in gangster roles of the 1930s, with James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson. Raft and Cagney worked as convicts in a prison in Each Dawn I Die (William Keighley, 1939). From 1945 his popularity waned and from then on he was mostly seen as the lead in B-movies in Film Noir style. He also took leading roles in European films. In the 1950s, Raft, along with Kosher-Nostra head Meyer Lansky and mob boss Santo Trafficante, opened the Capri Casino in Havana, which was initially financially successful. However, he lost it in 1959 to the revolution in Cuba. In 1965, Raft was accused of tax evasion because of his financial problems. However, he got off with a suspended sentence as he pleaded guilty. In 1967, Britain banned him from entering the country because of his Mafia contacts. One of his best-known later film appearances was in the comedy classic Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959), where he played the gangster boss "Spats Colombo" in a parody of his usual roles. Some Like It Hot became one of Raft's last major film appearances. In the 1960s and 1970s, the veteran star mostly had to settle for cameo appearances. Raft's last film Sam Marlow, Private Detective (Robert Day, 1980) was released in the last year of his life and was a tribute to his co-star Humphrey Bogart. George Raft died of leukaemia in Los Angeles in November 1980 at the age of 79. He was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
Sources: Ken Yousten (IMDb), Wikipedia (Dutch and English) and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Came across this while going through some old photos. This was taken in 2010 whitewater rafting near Steamboat Springs, CO.