George Raft
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George Raft was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and the 1940s. A stylish leading man in dozens of movies, Raft is remembered
Raft in 1935
Raft in Invisible Stripes (1939)
Whistle Stop (1946) with Ava Gardner
Judy Canova and Raft in 1979
Owney Madden
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Owen Vincent "Owney" Madden was an English-American gangster who was a leading underworld figure in New York during Prohibition. Nicknamed "The Killer", he garnered a brutal reputation within street g
George Raft
…dancer in New York." During this time, Raft befriended a number of gangsters, including Enoch Johnson and Larry Fay, and he would occasionally drive for Owney Madden. A boyhood friend of gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, and later a "wheel man" for the mob, Raft acknowledged having narrowly avoided a life of crime…
Owney Madden in 1931 New York City Police Department mugshot
NYPD mug shot of Madden (first published in 1926)