Paula Raymond
Paula Raymond , born Paula Ramona Wright , (born November 23, 1924 in San Francisco , California - December 31, 2003 in West Hollywood , California) was an American actress , singer , dancer and model with a short-term career in Hollywood outgoing 1940s and early 1950s.
Life
Born Paula Ramona Wright, she attended the San Francisco Junior College in her hometown until 1942 and then began her artistic career with small theater groups and as a concert singer in San Francisco. She played leading roles on stage in “ Peter Pan ” and “ Ah! Wilderness ". As a coloratura soprano she appeared in “ Madame Butterfly”, “Aida ” and “ Rigoletto ”. Paula Raymond was also seen as a ballerina at a young age at the San Francisco Opera Ballet. She earned additional income as a classical pianist as well as a photo model.
The dark-haired young artist started her film career as Paula Raymond in 1947 - apart from a mini-appearance which she made in 1938 under the signum Paula Rae Wright. After a few appearances in B-films and two more ambitious large-scale productions in 1949 (" Lost Game " with Barbara Stanwyck and James Mason and “ Matrimonial War ” with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn ) that same year, her contract company MGM awarded Paula Raymond the female lead in two further A-films: In Anthony Mann's western “ Curse ”, which depicts a positive image of the Native Americans of the blood ", she had to piss off " Redskin " Robert Taylor passionately, in the highly dramatic political thriller" Witches Cauldron "she was kidnapped as Cary Grant's wife by Latin American revolutionaries in order to get her husband, a surgeon, to get a despotic, under his knife, Dictator suffering from a brain tumor (played by José Ferrer ) in the upcoming operation.
Even in a series of far less spectacular films at the beginning of the 1950s, the actress was given a series of role assignments, which she mostly reduced to the neat appendix of the hero of the story. In 1953 she was seen with the female lead at the side of Paul Hubschmid in the monster trash film Panik in New York, which has now gained cult status . After appearing in supporting roles in A-films alongside Rex Harrison (in " The Talisman ") and Gary Merrill (in " Always He Chased Blondes "), Raymond's Hollywood cinema career came to a virtual standstill in 1955. From then on, the uncharismatic brunette appeared increasingly as a guest star in television series such as "Perry Mason", "77 Sunset Strip", "Wyatt Earp", "Maverick", "Chicago 1930", "Bat Masterson", "Peter Gunn" and "Solo for." ONCEL “. Paula Raymond only returned to the cinema sporadically in the 1960s with almost continuous no-name productions.
Filmography (selection)
- 1938: Keep Smiling
- 1947: Girls for Hollywood ( Variety Girl )
- 1948: Rusty Leads the Way
- 1948: Racing Luck
- 1948: Blondie's Secret
- 1948: Challenge of the Range
- 1949: Marriage War ( Adam's Rib )
- 1949: Sons of New Mexico
- 1949: Lost Game ( East Side West Side )
- 1949: Hexenkessel ( Crisis )
- 1950: The Curse of the Blood ( Devil's Doorway )
- 1950: Venus falls in love ( Duchess of Idaho )
- 1950: My husband wants to get married ( Grounds For Marriage )
- 1950: Inside Straight
- 1951: Carnival in Texas ( Texas Carnival )
- 1951: Conspiracy in the Night Express ( The Tall Target )
- 1951: Betrayed and Sold ( The Sellout )
- 1952: Bandits of Corsica ( The Bandits of Corsica )
- 1952: Chicago - 12 noon ( The City That Never Sleeps )
- 1953: Panic in New York ( The Beast From 20000 Fathoms )
- 1954: The Talisman ( King Richard and the Crusaders )
- 1954: Always chasing blondes ( The Human Jungle )
- 1955: The Gun That Won the West
- 1960: The Flight That Disappeared
- 1962: Hand of Death
- 1965: The spy with my face ( The Spy With My Face )
- 1967: Dracula and his victims ( Blood of Dracula's Castle )
- 1969: Five Bloody Graves ( Five Bloody Graves )
literature
- International Motion Picture Almanac 1965, p. 249
- Ephraim Katz : The Film Encyclopedia, 4th Edition. Revised by Fred Klein & Ronald Dean Nolen, p. 1133, New York 2001
Web links
- Paula Raymond in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Paula Raymond in the German dubbing file
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raymond, Paula |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wright, Paula Ramona (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-american actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco , California , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 2003 |
| Place of death | West Hollywood , California , United States |