George Raft
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Oct 24, 2026
Meyer Lansky IIGUEST
I want to be in movies like Georgie.
Meyer Lansky IIGUEST
Which, you know, it's George Raft, and it was just like, that's exactly what they said in that movie.
Meyer Lansky IIGUEST
Now, he did actually make his own sizzle reel for that time, because cameras were a lot different back then.
Meyer Lansky IIGUEST
And my grandfather kept saying, you can't be in movies, you're not like George, you're not a movie star.
Meyer Lansky IIGUEST
No, he was just building.
Meyer Lansky IIGUEST
He wanted to go out there anyway.
Meyer Lansky IIGUEST
He actually went out to Beverly Hills to see George Raft and to get away from New York.
Meyer Lansky IIGUEST
And, you know, it was after Prohibition, so they needed gambling.
Zach EastmanHOST
I'm
Rob StroudeGUEST
surprised it didn't go to George Raft first.
Zach EastmanHOST
Oh, that's right.
Zach EastmanHOST
It has to go to him before he rejects it.
Zach EastmanHOST
Oh, my God.
Zach EastmanHOST
I would love George Raft as a fucking vampire.
Zach EastmanHOST
He's got the rabbit in one hand and he's flipping a coin in the other.
Zach EastmanHOST
He's just like, no, no, no, no, no.
Ryan WarnerHOST
management gets called out on social media.
Ryan WarnerHOST
George Stern has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers as he shares what not to do in leadership.
Ryan WarnerHOST
And he's from Colorado.
George SternGUEST
The lesson in all of this, if you want to be a good boss, is be a good human being.
Ryan WarnerHOST
It's Colorado Matters from CPR News.
Ryan WarnerHOST
I'm Ryan Warner.
Ryan WarnerHOST
Bad management gets called out on George Stern's Instagram and his other social media platforms.
Ryan WarnerHOST
People send him exchanges with their bosses.
Illeana DouglasGUEST
But on off-screen, as I write about the dichotomy that she gets involved with 18-year-old Mickey Rooney...
Illeana DouglasGUEST
And directly after the making of the women, she goes to New York and she becomes, she's engaged to George Raft, but there's just one problem.
Illeana DouglasGUEST
He's already married, you know, and she's going to premieres with him and he has a wife and George Raft and Norma Shira do not seem like, you know, so there's an earthiness there with her that, I think that she buried for the public because she wanted the perception to be that she was this great regal queen, you know, Marie Antoinette.
ColleenHOST
You know, your face lights up when you talk about all of this movie history.
ColleenHOST
No, but it's true.
Jim FusilliHOST
First of all, I just think it's a great idea, this melding of fact and fiction and your treatment of, famous people that we think we know, but you give a certain added dimension to them that brings us closer to them.
Jim FusilliHOST
And in True Detective, you have us meet FDR and Mayor Cermak of Chicago, George Raft is in that book, Frank Nitti is in that book.
Jim FusilliHOST
So where did the idea come from? And tell us about whether you enjoyed the research and the reporting that you could then use as a springboard into fiction.
Max Allan CollinsGUEST
Well, I'll admit to you that the research is brutal and has been brutal.
Pat FrenchVOICE_ACTOR
You're smiling.
Phil HarperVOICE_ACTOR
You've seen too many George Raft movies, Mrs. Stacy.
Phil HarperVOICE_ACTOR
It isn't done like that.
Pat FrenchVOICE_ACTOR
Well, that's it, you see? I need you.
Rebecca ShoreHOST
Then he got into bootlegging, racketeering, thoroughbred racetracks, managing prize fighters, laundries, and nightclubs, says Raines.
Rebecca ShoreHOST
George Raft drove beer trucks for him, and when Raft became an actor, he based his gangster characters on Owney Madden.
Rebecca ShoreHOST
Mae West was one of Madden's girlfriends, and she said he was sweet, but oh, so vicious.
Rebecca ShoreHOST
Everyone was afraid of him because he had a psychotic streak, and he was a killer, says Raines.
SarahHOST
a railway official.
SarahHOST
George Raft as a saloon bouncer?
AdamHOST
That does sound really familiar.
AdamHOST
Yeah.
GavinHOST
However, most of the scripts made major changes to the source material, including dropping of Diabolik's nemesis, Inspector Ginko, replaced with a Goldfinger-esque villain named Richness.
GavinHOST
The cast included Jean Sorel as Di- Diabolik, El- Elsa Martinelli as Eva Kant, and George Raft as Richness.
GavinHOST
However, Alain Delon was considered, but it was too expensive for playing Diabolik, and James Mason, Peter Ustinov, Orson Welles, and Goldfinger himself, Gert Fröbe, were all considered for Richness.
ChelsHOST
Okay, some of those names would've been the whole budget of the movie, though.
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