Gene Raymond

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Gene Raymond (August 13, 1908 - May 2, 1998) was a popular film actor of the 1930s and 1940s. <p>Gene Raymond was an actor of stage, film, and TV, singer, composer, writer, director, producer, decorated military pilot, and for 28 years the husband of movie star Jeanette MacDonald. <p>Gene Raymond was born Raymond Guion on August 13, 1908 in New York City. 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. (The cast included Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, and a young Humphrey Bogart.) <p>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...