The world film encyclopedia (1933)
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Biographies of the Players (RAM-RAY;
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Devil (Para), The Little French Giil (Para), The Tronbls with Wives (Para), The American Ventis (Para), Woman Handled (Para), The Quarter Back (Para), The Blind Goddess (Para), Children cf Divorce (Para), Fashions for Women (Para), Ten Modern Commandments (Para), Figures Don't Lie (Para), The Spotlight (Para), Love and Learn (Para), Something Ahvays Happens (Para), The Sawdust Paradise (Para), The Case of Lena Smith (Para), Betrayal (Para), The Wheel of Life (Para), The Mighty (Para), The Southerner (M.G.M.), Lonely Wives (Pathe), Prodigal (Pathe), Sheer Luck (Big Four), Half a Bride (Para).
RAMBEAU, Marjorie. B. San Francisco, Cal., July 15, 18S9. Blonde hair, blue eyes. Ht. 5 ft. 6 in. Wt. 9 st. 9 lb. Ed. San Francisco. M. (i) Willard Mack; div. 1917 ; (2) ^McGaughajen, 1919, div. ; (3) F. A. Gudger, Nov., 1931. Played her first part on the stage while still in her teens. After manj? minor roles rose to be leading lady. Altogether she was twenty years on the stage. One of her first pictures was Her Man (Radio, 1930). Also Pl.wed in : Dark Star (M.G.M.), Min and Bill (M.G.M.), Leftover Ladies (Tiffany), Son of India (M.G.M.), Inspiration (INI.G.M.), The Easiest Way (M.G.M.), Silence (Para), A Tailor Made Man (M.G.M.), Strangers May Kiss (M.G.M.), The Secret Six (M.G.M.), Laughing Sinners (M.G.M.), Hell Divers (M.G.M.).
RANDOLPH, Elsie. B. London, Dec. 9.
Brown hair, brown eyes. Ht. 5 ft. 4 in.
Wt. 8 st. 6 lb. Ed. private tutor.
Made her stage debut in London, 191 9, as a model in The Girl for the Boy. Without any previous training rose to be one of the most popular dancers on the English musical comedy stage, appearing in many shows with Jack Buchanan. Made her screen debut in Rich and Strange (B.I. P. 193 1) and immediately established herself as a brilliant screen comedienne.
Also Pl.wed in : Brother Alfred (B.I. P.), Life Goes On (Para-Brit), Yes. Mr. Brown (B. & D.).
RATHBONE, Basil. B. S. Africa,
June 13, 1892. Black hair, hazel eyes.
Ht. 6 ft. 1 1 in. Ed. Repton College.
M. (i) Ethel Marian Forman ; (2)
Ouida Bergere.
On finishing his education began work with an important London Insurance Company. First stage appearance as Hortensio in The Taming of the Shrew, at Ipswich, 1911, after which he made
appearances on the principal New York and London stages. Film debut with M.G.M., one of his earliest films being The Masked Bride (1925), with Mae Murray.
Also Played in : Duchess and the Waiter (M.G.M.), The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (M.G.M.), Bishop Murder Case (M.G.M.), Lady of Scandal (M.G.M.). Flirting Widow (F.N.), A Notorious Affair (F.N.), High Road (M.G.M.), Sin Takes a Holiday (Pathe), Lady Surrenders (Univ), This Mad World (M.G.M,) A Woman Commands (Radio), After the Ball (Gau-Brit).
RATOFF, Gregory. M. Eugene Leon
tovitch.
Member of the Yiddish Players of New York and a graduate of the Moscow Art Theatre. Gave a superb performance in The Melody of Life (Radio 1932).
Also Played in : For Sale (Vita), The Roar of the Dragon (Radio), What Price Hollywood ? (Radio), Deported {Ka.dio), Skyscraper Soitls (M.CM.), Once in a Lifetime (Univ), Mysteries of the French Police (Radio).
RAWLINSON, Gerald. B. St. Helens,
Lanes, Aug. 24, 1904. Ed. Emmanuel
School.
Commissioned in the R.A.F., 1922. Served in India 1923-26. Made his film debut with Mabel Poulton in Wild Cat Hetty (Nettlefold, 1928).
Also Played in : Tell England (B.I.F.), Young Woodley (B.I.P.), Devil's Maze (Gau-Brit), The Rising Generation (NeoArt), Alf's Carpet (B.I.P.), The Man at Six (B.I. P.), Creeping Shadows (B.I.F.), The Old Man (B.L.), Brown Sugar (Twickenham), Collision (U. A. -Brit), Threads (U.A.-Brit), The Call-Box Mystery (U.A.-Brit).
RAY, Rene. Ed. at a convent.
At fifteen she ran away from school, having made up her mind to become a film star. Without experience she got a job as an extra, and made her debut unostentatiously as one of three hundred, and was so hidden that she did not even see herself on the screen. To-day she has won leading roles, one of which is in The King's Cup (B & D, 1932).
Also Played in : Dance Pretty Lady (B.I.F.), Smiling Along (Argyle), Tonight's the Night (B.I P.), Two White Arms (Eric Hakim), Young Woodley (B,I.P.), When London Sleeps (Twickenham).
RAYMOND, Gene. Real name, Raymond Guion. B. New York, Aug. 13,