Both Paul Muni and George Raft turned down the lead role, giving Bogart the opportunity to play a character of some depth, although legendary director Walsh initially fought the casting of supporting player Bogart as a leading man, much preferring Raft for the part.

Also in 1934, she starred in Bolero with George Raft and it was for this film that she turned down the role of Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night.

However, Bogart, who at the time took a great interest in playing the role of Roy Earle, managed to talk Raft out of accepting the role, who subsequently turned it down.

Raft was also reported to have turned down Bogart's role in Casablanca ( 1942 ), although according to some Warner Bros. memos, this story is apocryphal.

Curly was also an accomplished ballroom dancer and singer, and regularly turned up at the Triangle Ballroom in Brooklyn, occasionally bumping into George Raft.

Even the so called " Last Raft " to be floated down the West Branch took several lives at Port Penn.

( 1932 ) with James Cagney and Loretta Young, Raft has a colorful unbilled dancing role as Cagney's competitor in a dance contest who wins only to be knocked down by Cagney's loonily pugnacious character.

Initially presented in Genazzano in 1982, as part of a group project called “ La zattera di Babele ” Raft of Babel, Couleurs superposées ( Layered colours ) is an hour-long public performance, during which paper is pasted up and then torn down.

Lorre made nine movies altogether with Sydney Greenstreet counting The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca, most of them variations on the latter film, including Background to Danger ( 1943, with George Raft ); Passage to Marseille ( 1944, reteaming them with Casablanca stars Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains ); The Mask of Dimitrios ( 1944, with character actor Greenstreet receiving top billing ); The Conspirators ( 1944, with Hedy Lamarr and Paul Henreid ); Hollywood Canteen ( 1944 ); Three Strangers ( 1946 ), a suspense film about three people who are joint partners on a winning lottery ticket starring top-billed Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and third-billed Lorre cast against type by director Jean Negulesco as the romantic lead ; and Greenstreet and Lorre's final film together, suspense thriller The Verdict ( 1946 ), director Don Siegel's first movie, with Greenstreet and Lorre finally billed first and second, respectively.

His big break came later that same year as the nickel-flipping second lead alongside Paul Muni's raging killer in Scarface ( 1932 ), and Raft's convincing portrayal led to speculation that Raft was a gangster.

Although Raft received third billing in Manpower, he played the lead.

In 1953, Raft also starred as Lt. George Kirby in a syndicated television series police drama titled I'm the Law, which ran for one season and was one of the earliest instances of a movie star of his previous calibre accepting the lead in a TV series.

* Manpower ( 1941 ) with Edward G. Robinson and Marlene Dietrich ( Raft 3rd billed but played the lead )

Some of Lamour's other notable films include John Ford's The Hurricane ( 1937 ), Spawn of the North ( 1938 ; with George Raft, Henry Fonda, and John Barrymore ), Disputed Passage ( 1939 ), Johnny Apollo ( 1940 ; with Tyrone Power ), Aloma of the South Seas ( 1941 ), Beyond the Blue Horizon ( 1942 ), Dixie ( 1943 ; with Bing Crosby ),

In the early 90's, sculptor John Connell, in his Raft Project, a collaborative project with painter Eugene Newmann, recreated The Raft of the Medusa by making life-sized sculptures out of wood, paper and tar and placing them on a large wooden raft.

An undistinguished period followed with Paramount Pictures from 1935 to 1939, but Walsh's career rose to new heights soon after moving to Warner Brothers, with The Roaring Twenties ( 1939 ) featuring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart ; Dark Command ( 1940 ) with John Wayne and Roy Rogers ; They Drive By Night ( 1940 ) with George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, and Bogart ; High Sierra ( 1941 ) with Lupino and Bogart again ; They Died with Their Boots On ( 1941 ) with Errol Flynn as Custer ; The Strawberry Blonde ( 1941 ) with James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland ; Manpower ( 1941 ) with Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, and George Raft ; and White Heat ( 1949 ) with Cagney.

Some of his other movies include If I Had A Million ( 1932 ; an episodic ensemble film in which he plays a forger hiding from police, suddenly given a million dollars with no place to cash the check ), Bolero ( 1934 ; in a rare role as a dancer rather than a gangster ), Limehouse Blues ( 1934 ; with Anna May Wong ), a brutal and fast-paced adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key ( 1935 ; remade in 1942 with Alan Ladd in Raft's role as a result of the success of the remake of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon ), Souls at Sea ( 1937 ; with Gary Cooper ), Spawn of the North ( 1938 ; with Raft garnering top billing over Henry Fonda and John Barrymore ), two with Humphrey Bogart: Invisible Stripes ( 1939 ) and They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), with Bogart in supporting roles, Each Dawn I Die ( 1939 ; with James Cagney and Raft as convicts in prison ), and Manpower ( 1941 ; with Edward G. Robinson and Marlene Dietrich ).

Raft understandably chose Raoul Walsh's Manpower over The Maltese Falcon because the latter film's director, John Huston, had never directed before and a racier pre-Code version of the film already existed.

The short then proceeds to showcase a large number of Hollywood stars in the form of caricatures, including Katharine Hepburn ( as a horse named Miss Heartburn ), Jean Harlow, Bette Davis, Joe E. Brown, Hugh Herbert, W. C. Fields, Clark Gable, Groucho and Harpo Marx, Johnny Weissmuller, Mae West, Lionel and John Barrymore, Laurel and Hardy, Edward G. Robinson, Fred Astaire, and George Raft.

Renaldo did play some roles in mainstream films as well, including in Spawn of the North ( 1938 ) with George Raft, Henry Fonda and John Barrymore ; and For Whom the Bell Tolls with Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman.

She had a successful career at MGM, RKO and Columbia including important roles such as the tragic Beth in the original Little Women, among many other film appearances including Frank Capra's Lady for a Day and Gabriel Over the White House ; Sequoia ; Limehouse Blues with George Raft and Anna May Wong ; The Ghost Goes West, opposite Robert Donat ; and Rasputin and the Empress, with the Barrymore siblings ( John, Ethel, and Lionel ) in the only movie they all made together.

She made her film debut in Night After Night starring George Raft.

Suffering and Spalding went on to form Raft of Dead Monkeys with labelmate members of Roadside Monument, releasing their debut album Thoughlev on Burnout Records in 2001.

While many of his early films were supporting roles in major films starring James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, George Raft, or Bette Davis, as well as leads or second leads in B pictures, often type-cast as a gangster, Bogart would later play such notable roles as Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, Charlie Allnut in The African Queen, and Rick Blaine in Casablanca.

In the 1940s, Robinson demonstrated his ability to succeed in comedic and film noir roles, including Raoul Walsh's Manpower ( 1941 ) with Marlene Dietrich and George Raft, Larceny, Inc. ( 1942 ) with Jane Wyman and Broderick Crawford, Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity ( 1944 ) with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window ( 1945 ) with Joan Bennett and Raymond Massey, Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street ( 1945 ) with Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea, and Orson Welles ' The Stranger ( 1946 ) with Orson Welles and Loretta Young.

* Manpower ( 1941 film ), a film starring Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, and George Raft

A second company, Winslow Life Raft Company was founded as the New York Rubber Company in 1941.

* The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas ( Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen, also known as Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft ), 1948

A Hollywood film titled Bolero ( 1934 ), starring Carole Lombard and George Raft, made major use of the theme.

* Théodore Géricault ( 1791 – 1824 ), painter, painted The Raft of the Medusa

When the gangsters, led by " Spats " Colombo ( George Raft ), spot them, the two have to run for their lives.

Mae West's first screen appearance was as a wisecracking character based on Guinan in Night After Night ( 1932 ), featuring George Raft.

* George Raft ( 1895 – 1980 ), actor best known for his portrayal of tough guys and gangsters.

However the Americans Copley and Benjamin West led the artists who successfully showed that trousers could be used in heroic scenes, with works like West's The Death of General Wolfe ( 1770 ) and Copley's The Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781 ( 1783 ), although the trouser was still being carefully avoided in The Raft of the Medusa, completed in 1819.

The two men appeared in nine films together, including Casablanca ( 1942 ) as crooked club owner Signor Ferrari ( for which he received a salary of $ 3, 750 per week for seven weeks ), as well as Background to Danger ( 1943, with George Raft ), Passage to Marseille ( 1944 ), reteaming him with Casablanca stars Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains, The Mask of Dimitrios ( 1944, receiving top billing ), The Conspirators ( 1944, with Hedy Lamarr and Paul Henreid ), Hollywood Canteen ( 1944 ), Three Strangers ( 1946, receiving top billing ) and The Verdict ( 1946, with top billing ).

A large part of their fame was due to their non-criminal activities as popular figures on the celebrity circuit, being photographed by David Bailey on more than one occasion ; and socializing with lords, MPs, socialites and show business characters such as the actors George Raft, Judy Garland, Diana Dors, Barbara Windsor and singer Frank Sinatra.

The Ramblin ' Raft Race, an annual event in Atlanta, was cancelled in 1980 due to environmental concerns

The second book in the Xeelee Sequence, Timelike Infinity introduces a universe of powerful alien species and technologies which manages to maintain a realistic edge due to Baxter's physics background ; it largely sets the stage for the magnum opus of the Xeelee Sequence, Ring ( as opposed to Vacuum Diagrams, Flux, or Raft, which concern themselves with side-stories ).

The Great Raft grew faster at its upper end than the lower end decayed or washed out, leading to its peak length spanning more than 160 miles / 250 km in the early 1830s.

Although The Raft of the Medusa retains elements of the traditions of history painting, in both its choice of subject matter and its dramatic presentation, it represents a break from the calm and order of the then-prevailing Neoclassical school.

Plan of The Raft of the Medusa at the moment of its crew's rescue

The Raft of the Medusa was first shown at the 1819 Paris Salon, under the generic title Scène de Naufrage ( Scene of Shipwreck ), although its real subject would have been unmistakable for contemporary viewers.

The Raft of the Medusa was championed by the curator of the Louvre, comte de Forbin who purchased it from Géricault's heirs after his death in 1824 for the museum, where the painting now dominates its gallery.

In its insistence on portraying an unpleasant truth, The Raft of the Medusa was a landmark in the emerging Romantic movement in French painting, and " laid the foundations of an aesthetic revolution " against the prevailing Neoclassical style.

Raft himself excoriated the movie's inaccuracies upon its release.

Because of its picturesque setting, Raft Island has been the subject of many artistic pursuits.

According to Edmond S. Meany, Raft Island was probably named from its appearance.

The hammer ends up transforming Kuurth: Breaker of Stone who ends up destroying the Raft, which led to most of its inmates escaping.

During the Heroic Age storyline, Fixer works at the Raft supervising its section for male supervillains when Captain Steve Rogers and Luke Cage arrive to recruit Ghost.

But its Clear Creek tributary also drains the north side of the Raft River Mountains in Utah, and runoff from the nearby Grouse Creek Range also flows into the Raft River.

Nestled in Lian, Batangas is the quaint barangay of Matabungkay known for its wide beach, clear waters, creamy sand and the " Balsa " ( Bamboo Beach Raft ).