Ella Raines
Ella Raines was born in Snoqualmie Falls, Washington, United States on August 6th, 1920 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 67, Ella Raines biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Ella Wallace Raines (born Ella Wallace Raubes, August 6, 1920 – May 30, 1988) was an American film and television actress.
Early life
Ella Wallace Raines was born in Fall City, Washington, on August 6, 1920. She studied drama at the University of Washington and was playing in a play there when Howard Hawks was discovered. She was the first actress to commit to the new production company founded by actor Charles Boyer, B-H Productions, and made her film debut in Corvette K-225 (1943), which Hawks produced.
Personal life
Raines married her high school sweetheart, United States Army Air Forces Major Kenneth Trout, on August 11, 1942, a few days after she graduated from the University of Washington. In 1945, the couple divorced.
Raines married triple ace Robin Olds, who was eventually promoted to the United States Air Force brigadier general, on February 6, 1947; one of whom was stillborn. She had two miscarriages, both of which she attributed to the unsanitary conditions of being in Africa. They married in 1975 and divorced in 1976.
Raines was a conservative and anti-Communist Republican who endorsed Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan in their presidential campaigns.
In 1988, she died of throat cancer in Sherman Oaks, California, at the age of 67.
Acting career
Raines appeared in the all-female war film "Havoc" (also 1943). In the Saddle, she appeared in Phantom Lady, the Preston Sturges' comedy Hail the Conquering Hero, and the John Wayne western Tall in the Saddle (all 1944).
She appeared in films including The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945), Geraldine Fitzgerald and George Sanders' thriller, and The Web (1947). Raines' later films were barely as profitable as her earlier films, with the exception of Brute Force (1947), in which Raines appeared with Burt Lancaster.
As Wallace had attempted suicide following her separation from Franchot Tone in 1949, she played Jean Wallace in A Dangerous Profession.
Janet Dean, Registered Nurse, appeared in television series Janet Dean, 1954-1955. Robert Montgomery Presents, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents, Lights Out, Pulitzer Prize Playhouse, and The Christophers appeared in such television series as Robert Montgomery Presents, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. After playing a central role in a British-made thriller (The Man in the Road) in 1956, she resigned from acting the following year, but she made one more screen appearance in the series Matt Houston in 1984. Raines appeared on the front page of Life magazine twice, once for Brute Force in 1947 and again for her role in Phantom Lady in 1944. In the G.I.'s June 2 and June 16 issues, she appeared as a pin-up girl in 1944. Yank magazine.
Raines has two actresses on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her role in motion pictures on 7021 Hollywood Boulevard and on television at 6600 Hollywood Boulevard.