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The George Raft Story is a 1961 American biographical film directed by Joseph M. Newman that stars Ray Danton as Hollywood film star George Raft.
The George Raft Story: Directed by Joseph M. Newman. With Ray Danton, Jayne Mansfield, Julie London, Barrie Chase. Dancer George Raft (Ray Danton) finds himself involved with the criminal underworld.
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The late entry The George Raft Story (1961) turns the formula inside out with the biopic of an actor-dancer who played gangsters in the movies and mixed with them in real life as well. Famed for tossing a coin in the Howard Hawks classic Scarface (1932), George Raft also claimed to have met the real Al Capone.
Director. Crane Wilbur. Screenplay. The 1961 film biography of the nightclub dancer-turned-movie star George Raft.
A Broadway dancer (Ray Danton) goes to Hollywood and begins his movie career as a gangster in "Scarface."
Without getting into any in-depth plumbing of the actor's life, the story begins with the young Raft making his way in New York as a dancer and rubbing shoulders with underworld figures. Then he goes to Hollywood where he eventually finds fame in the film Scarface and gets typecast as a gangster.
