Welcome to the Barbary Coast saloon .. if you dare! Marlene Dietrich as the hostess ~ Frank Sinatra as the pianist ~ George Raft as the bouncer. Directed by Michael Anderson. 1956. Universal Pictures.
how did he convince so many of the biggest stars on earth to do all these cameos , but since he got Elizabeth Taylor to marry him , maybe he just had a way about him ?
Mr Sinatra must have been paid a great sum for such a cameo. When I saw the movie the first time on BBC in the 70s; I had an idea that it was him before he had shown his face.
Not sure but the bouncer was a famous actor in his own right. George Raft. Very famous gangster movies. He made the original Scarface. He also made the mistake of turning down the lead role in the Maltese Falcon. The role went Humphrey Bogart. Such a shame for Raft.However George did continue to work n was also in Some like it Hot w Marilyn Monroe.. He did have an affair w Marlena in their younger years.
Over forty percent of the performers in the "Around the World in 80 Days" movie sold-out their birth names to shallow & deceitful 'Hollywood'. It also shows how so many people were ashamed of their heritage and caved-in to greedy agents, managers, & studios with notions of greater recognition & monetary gains. So-called "Cantinflas" was born Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes, which was too many names. So-called "Shirley MacLaine" was born Shirley MacLean Beaty. So-called Peter Lorre" was born László Löwenstein. So-called "George Raft" was born George Ranft. So-called "Gilbert Roland" was born Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso, which was too many names. So-called "Fernandel" was born Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin, which was too many names. So-called "Trevor Howard" was born Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith, which was too many names & hyphenated. {Why would anyone, ESPECIALLY a man, put an unnecessary hyphen in their name. It's also pretentious & ludicrous}. So-called "Victor McLaglen" was born Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen, which was too many names & had a lower case letter, which looks stupid. So- called "Jack Oakie" was born Lewis Delaney Offield. So-called "Alan Mowbray" was born Alfred Ernest Allen. So-called "Tim McCoy" was born Timothy John Fitzgerald McCoy, which was too many names. So-called "Harcourt Williams" was born Ernest George Harcourt Williams, which is too many names. So-called "Walter Fitzgerald" was born Walter Fitzgerald Bond. So-called "Keye Luke was born Luk Shek-kee, which had an unecessary hyphen & lower case letter, which looks stupid. So-called "Walter Kingsford" was born Walter Pearce. So-called "Reginald Denny" was born Reginald Leigh Dugmore. So-called "Robert Cabal" was born Harold Christopher McColgan. So-called "Luis Miquel" was born Dominquin Luis Miguel González Lucas which was too many names. So-called "Martine Carol" was born Marie-Louise Jeanne Nicolle Mourer, which was too many names & had an unnecessary hyphen. So-called "Ronald Adam" was born -Ronald George Hinings Adams, which was too many names. Bottom line: some things in life are better left alone and more important than money & vanity. One of them is your birth name, that always should be respected. The only exception, of course, would be when women get married & add their husband's last name to their's.
