Victor Mature

This vintage original still shows a VERY RARE photo of VICTOR MATURE (on the left) SWORDFIGHTING. At 15 he took his first job, as a candy salesman, and aged 20 decided to try his luck in Hollywood. American leading man Victor John Mature was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Clara P. (Ackley) and Marcellus George Mature, a cutler and knife sharpener. That was the great thing about being under contract.

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(In both this film and Song of the Islands Mature's singing voice was dubbed. Watch Victor Mature exclusive videos, interviews, video clips and more at TVGuide.com. I picked this racket and I love it." There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts He returned to the United States to work with the veteran director Frank Borzage on China Doll (1958), a bizarre flop about a man who accidentally buys an Oriental wife, then ominously starred in Escort West (1959) for Francis D. Lyon, who specialised in directing low-budget westerns featuring fading stars.Italy was proving a viable source of income for former Hollywood names, and Mature starred there in two historical adventures, Annibale (1960), in which he played the title role of the Carthaginian general, and I Tartari (1961), co-starring Orson Welles. There's a lot to be said about loafing if you know how to do it gracefully. Either people think you're lousy jerk like me or a great guy like Gable.

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Everyone told me I would go crazy or die if I quit working. His father, born Marcello Gelindo Maturi in Pinzolo, Trentino, was Italian, and his mother was of Swiss-German and German descent. to your comment. In "Samson and Delilah" (1949) he was blinded and forced to turn a gristmill. "With America's entry into the Second World War, Mature served 14 months of active duty prior to being cast in the service revue Tars and Spars.

Asked how he felt about the role, he replied, "I'd have played Samson's mother if they'd asked me." {{#sender.isSelf}} VICTOR MATURE was once billed by his studio as "a beautiful hunk of man" and in the Forties he came to personify the latest term signifying male sex-appeal - beefcake.His craggy features, with their full lips and heavily lidded eyes were more controversial - women either loved them or loathed them - and in one of his films, Wabash Avenue, the heroine Betty Grable actually calls him "fishface". Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post Victor Mature has become synonymous with Biblical/sword and sandal films (so much so that even George Clooney is talking about how he used VM’s perceived film persona as inspiration for his recent role in ‘Hail, Caesar!”) Yet, less than a fifth of VM’s films were in this genre.

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Yeah? Victor's father, Marcello Gelindo Maturi (later Marcellus George Mature), a knife sharpener and cutler, was born in 1877 in the town of Pinzolo, in the Italian Tyrolean region of Trentino, which was then under the rule of the Austria-Hungary Empire, and was returned to Italian sovereignty in 1918, after WWI.

To gain experience he became a student actor at the Pasadena Playhouse. The following year he starred in a sequel, Demetrius and the Gladiators, then played two villainous roles, as the soldier who becomes Pharaoh in The Egyptian (1954), and a Second World War traitor in Betrayed (1954).After the thriller Violent Saturday (1955) he left Fox to freelance. try again, the name must be uniquePlease