1908-08-13 New York City, New York, USA
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.
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Complicated Women | Self (archive footage) | 2003-05-06 |
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Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts | Self | 1992-01-01 |
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Five Bloody Graves | The Voice of Death | 1969-10-31 |
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The Hanged Man | Whitey Devlin | 1964-11-18 |
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I'd Rather Be Rich | Martin Wood | 1964-08-25 |
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The Best Man | Don Cantwell | 1964-04-05 |
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Woman on the Run | 1959-05-15 | |
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Plunder Road | Eddie Harris | 1957-12-05 |
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Hit the Deck | Wendell Craig | 1955-02-24 |
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Assigned to Danger | Dan Sullivan | 1948-05-19 |
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Sofia | Steve Roark | 1948-09-03 |
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Million Dollar Weekend | Nicholas Lawrence | 1948-10-29 |
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The Locket | John Willis | 1946-12-20 |
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Smilin' Through | Kenneth 'Ken' Wayne / Jeremy 'Jerry' Wayne | 1941-10-01 |
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Jeff | 1941-01-31 |
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Cross-Country Romance | Lawrence Smith | 1940-07-12 |
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Stolen Heaven | Carl | 1938-05-11 |
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She's Got Everything | Fuller Partridge | 1937-12-31 |
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There Goes My Girl | Jerry Martin | 1937-05-21 |
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The Life of the Party | Barry Saunders | 1937-09-03 |
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That Girl from Paris | Windy McLean | 1936-12-31 |
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Smartest Girl in Town | Richard Stuyvesant Smith | 1936-11-27 |
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The Bride Walks Out | Michael Martin | 1936-07-10 |
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Love on a Bet | Michael MacCreigh | 1936-03-06 |
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Walking on Air | Pete Quinlan / Count Pierre Louis de Marsac | 1936-09-11 |
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The Woman in Red | John 'Johnny' Wyatt | 1935-02-16 |
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Transient Lady | Carey Marshall | 1935-03-04 |
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Seven Keys to Baldpate | William Magee | 1935-12-13 |
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Hooray for Love | Douglas Tyler | 1935-06-14 |
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Sadie McKee | Tommy | 1934-05-09 |
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Coming Out Party | Chris Hansen | 1934-03-09 |
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Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round | Jimmy Brett | 1934-11-02 |
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Behold My Wife! | Michael Carter | 1934-12-06 |
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Ann Carver's Profession | William Graham | 1933-06-09 |
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Brief Moment | Rodney Deane | 1933-09-29 |
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Ex-Lady | Don Peterson | 1933-05-15 |
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Zoo in Budapest | Zani | 1933-04-28 |
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Flying Down to Rio | Roger Bond | 1933-12-22 |
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I Am Suzanne! | Tony Malatini | 1933-12-25 |
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The House on 56th Street | Monte Van Tyle | 1933-12-23 |
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Red Dust | Gary Willis | 1932-10-22 |
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Forgotten Commandments | Paul Ossipoff | 1932-05-22 |
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If I Had a Million | John Wallace (uncredited) | 1932-11-18 |
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The Night of June 13 | Herbert Morrow | 1932-09-17 |
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Personal Maid | Dick Gary | 1931-09-12 |
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Ladies of the Big House | Standish McNeil | 1931-12-26 |
