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<span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1</span> <span>Theatre credits</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Theatre_credits-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Radio_appearances" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Radio_appearances"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Radio appearances</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Radio_appearances-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References_in_popular_culture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References_in_popular_culture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>References in popular culture</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References_in_popular_culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1" title="فيكتور ماتير – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="فيكتور ماتير" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature" title="Victor Mature – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Victor Mature" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1" title="ویکتور ماتیور – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="ویکتور ماتیور" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8E%D1%80" title="Виктор Матюр – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Виктор Матюр" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature" title="Victor Mature – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Victor Mature" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature" title="Victor Mature – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Victor Mature" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature" title="Victor Mature – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Victor Mature" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature" title="Victor Mature – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Victor Mature" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1" title="ویکتور ماتیور – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ویکتور ماتیور" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature" title="Victor Mature – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Victor Mature" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature" title="Victor Mature – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Victor Mature" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B9%85%ED%84%B0_%EB%A8%B8%EC%B6%94%EC%96%B4" title="빅터 머추어 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="빅터 머추어" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature" title="Victor Mature – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Victor Mature" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature" title="Victor Mature – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Victor Mature" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A8_%D7%9E%D7%A6%27%D7%95%D7%A8" title="ויקטור מצ'ור – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ויקטור מצ'ור" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature" title="Victor Mature – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Victor Mature" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1" title="فيكتور ماتيور – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="فيكتور ماتيور" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature" title="Victor Mature – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Victor Mature" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%81%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A2" title="ヴィクター・マチュア – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ヴィクター・マチュア" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature" title="Victor Mature – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Victor Mature" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature" title="Victor Mature – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Victor Mature" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature" title="Victor Mature – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Victor Mature" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature" title="Victor Mature – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Victor Mature" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature" title="Victor Mature – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Victor Mature" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%8D%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%8E%D1%80,_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80" title="Мэтьюр, Виктор – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Мэтьюр, Виктор" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%AA%DB%86%D8%B1_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%DB%86%D8%B1" title="ڤیکتۆر ماتۆر – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Victor Mature</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Victor_Mature_-_publicity.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Victor_Mature_-_publicity.JPG/220px-Victor_Mature_-_publicity.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="302" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Victor_Mature_-_publicity.JPG/330px-Victor_Mature_-_publicity.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Victor_Mature_-_publicity.JPG/440px-Victor_Mature_-_publicity.JPG 2x" data-file-width="638" data-file-height="877" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Mature <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1940s</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Victor John Mature</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1913-01-29</span>)</span>January 29, 1913<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Louisville,_Kentucky" title="Louisville, Kentucky">Louisville, Kentucky</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">August 4, 1999<span style="display:none">(1999-08-04)</span> (aged 86)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Rancho_Santa_Fe,_California" title="Rancho Santa Fe, California">Rancho Santa Fe, California</a>, U.S.</span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label">St. Michael's Cemetery, Louisville, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Actor</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1939–1984</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Frances Charles</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1938; <a href="/wiki/Annulment" title="Annulment"><abbr title="annulled">annul.</abbr></a> 1940)<wbr /></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Martha Stephenson Kemp</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1941; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1943)<wbr /></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Dorothy Standford Berry</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1948; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1955)<wbr /></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Adrienne Joy Urwick</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1959; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1969)<wbr /></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Loretta Gaye Sebena</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1974)<wbr /></div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">1</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Victor John Mature</b> (January 29, 1913 – August 4, 1999) was an American stage, film, and television actor who was a leading man in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s. His best known film roles include <i><a href="/wiki/One_Million_B.C." title="One Million B.C.">One Million B.C.</a></i> (1940), <i><a href="/wiki/My_Darling_Clementine" title="My Darling Clementine">My Darling Clementine</a></i> (1946), <i><a href="/wiki/Kiss_of_Death_(1947_film)" title="Kiss of Death (1947 film)">Kiss of Death</a></i> (1947), <i><a href="/wiki/Samson_and_Delilah_(1949_film)" title="Samson and Delilah (1949 film)">Samson and Delilah</a></i> (1949), and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Robe_(film)" title="The Robe (film)">The Robe</a></i> (1953). He also appeared in many musicals opposite such stars as <a href="/wiki/Rita_Hayworth" title="Rita Hayworth">Rita Hayworth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Betty_Grable" title="Betty Grable">Betty Grable</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mature was born in <a href="/wiki/Louisville,_Kentucky" title="Louisville, Kentucky">Louisville, Kentucky</a>. His father, Marcello Gelindo Maturi, later Marcellus George Mature, was a cutler and knife sharpener from <a href="/wiki/Pinzolo" title="Pinzolo">Pinzolo</a>, in the Italian part of the former <a href="/wiki/County_of_Tyrol" title="County of Tyrol">County of Tyrol</a> (now <a href="/wiki/Trentino" title="Trentino">Trentino</a> in Italy, but at that time part of the <a href="/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Austro-Hungarian Empire">Austro-Hungarian Empire</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His mother, Clara P. (Ackley), was <a href="/wiki/Kentucky" title="Kentucky">Kentucky</a>-born and of <a href="/wiki/Swiss-American" class="mw-redirect" title="Swiss-American">Swiss</a> heritage.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An older brother, Marcellus Paul Mature, died of <a href="/wiki/Osteomyelitis" title="Osteomyelitis">osteomyelitis</a> in 1918 at age 11.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His only sister, Isabelle, was born and died in 1906. Mature attended <a href="/wiki/St._Xavier_High_School_(Louisville)" title="St. Xavier High School (Louisville)">St. Xavier High School</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in Louisville, Kentucky, the <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_Military_Institute" title="Kentucky Military Institute">Kentucky Military Institute</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Spencerian_College" title="Spencerian College">Spencerian Business School</a>. He briefly sold candy and operated a restaurant before moving to California.<sup id="cite_ref-blue_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-blue-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pasadena_Playhouse">Pasadena Playhouse</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Pasadena Playhouse"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mature studied and acted at the <a href="/wiki/Pasadena_Playhouse" title="Pasadena Playhouse">Pasadena Community Playhouse</a>. For three years, he lived in a tent in the back yard of Mrs Willigan, the mother of a fellow student, Catherine Lewis. He was spotted by <a href="/wiki/Charles_R._Rogers" title="Charles R. Rogers">Charles R. Rogers</a>, an agent for <a href="/wiki/Hal_Roach" title="Hal Roach">Hal Roach</a>, while acting in a production of <i>To Quito and Back</i>. Rogers called him "a rival to <a href="/wiki/Clark_Gable" title="Clark Gable">Clark Gable</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Taylor_(American_actor)" title="Robert Taylor (American actor)">Robert Taylor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Errol_Flynn" title="Errol Flynn">Errol Flynn</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-NYT29Jun41_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT29Jun41-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mature signed a seven-year contract with Roach in September 1939.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hal_Roach">Hal Roach</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Hal Roach"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Roach cast Mature in a small role in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Housekeeper%27s_Daughter" title="The Housekeeper's Daughter">The Housekeeper's Daughter</a></i> (1939), for which one reviewer called him "a handsome Tarzan type".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Roach then gave Mature his first leading role, as a fur-clad <a href="/wiki/Caveman" title="Caveman">caveman</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/One_Million_B.C." title="One Million B.C.">One Million B.C.</a></i> (1940). The film was highly publicized and it raised Mature's profile; <a href="/wiki/Hedda_Hopper" title="Hedda Hopper">Hedda Hopper</a> called him "a sort of miniature <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Weissmuller" title="Johnny Weissmuller">Johnny Weissmuller</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Roach next put him in a swashbuckler set during the <a href="/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Captain_Caution" title="Captain Caution">Captain Caution</a></i> (1940).<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As Hal Roach only made a handful of movies every year, he loaned out Mature's services to <a href="/wiki/RKO" class="mw-redirect" title="RKO">RKO</a>, who used him as a leading man in the <a href="/wiki/Anna_Neagle" title="Anna Neagle">Anna Neagle</a>–<a href="/wiki/Herbert_Wilcox" title="Herbert Wilcox">Herbert Wilcox</a> musical, <i><a href="/wiki/No,_No,_Nanette_(1940_film)" title="No, No, Nanette (1940 film)">No, No, Nanette</a></i>. The studio people were so pleased with his performance that they bought an option to take over half of Mature's contract with Hal Roach, enabling them to draw on his services for two films a year over three years.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wilcox wanted to reunite Mature with Neagle in <i><a href="/wiki/Sunny_(1941_film)" title="Sunny (1941 film)">Sunny</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYT29Jun41_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT29Jun41-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Roach announced Mature would support <a href="/wiki/Victor_McLaglen" title="Victor McLaglen">Victor McLaglen</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Broadway_Limited_(film)" title="Broadway Limited (film)">Broadway Limited</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but Mature was not cast in the final film. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lady_in_the_Dark"><i>Lady in the Dark</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Lady in the Dark"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mature was worried about the direction of his career at this stage, claiming "nobody was going to believe I could do anything except grunt and groan,"<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> so he went to New York City to try the theatre. He signed to appear in a play with the <a href="/wiki/Group_Theatre_(New_York)" class="mw-redirect" title="Group Theatre (New York)">Group Theatre</a>, <i>Retreat to Pleasure</i> by <a href="/wiki/Irwin_Shaw" title="Irwin Shaw">Irwin Shaw</a>. Shortly afterward it was announced he would appear instead in the musical <i><a href="/wiki/Lady_in_the_Dark" title="Lady in the Dark">Lady in the Dark</a></i> with a book by <a href="/wiki/Moss_Hart" title="Moss Hart">Moss Hart</a> and songs from <a href="/wiki/Ira_Gershwin" title="Ira Gershwin">Ira Gershwin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Weill" title="Kurt Weill">Kurt Weill</a>; Mature played Randy Curtis, a film star boyfriend of the show's protagonist, magazine editor Liza Elliott (<a href="/wiki/Gertrude_Lawrence" title="Gertrude Lawrence">Gertrude Lawrence</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mature later described his role: </p> <blockquote><p>First, this secretary came out saying 'What a beautiful hunk of man!' Then <a href="/wiki/Danny_Kaye" title="Danny Kaye">Danny Kaye</a> topped that with a long, long introductory number. Finally, I made my entrance. <a href="/wiki/John_Barrymore" title="John Barrymore">John Barrymore</a> told me I was the only person who could have followed up on all that.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>The musical debuted on Broadway in January 1941 and was a smash hit, making a star of <a href="/wiki/Danny_Kaye" title="Danny Kaye">Danny Kaye</a> and <a href="/wiki/Macdonald_Carey" title="Macdonald Carey">Macdonald Carey</a> and causing fresh appreciation for Mature's talents. His performance was well received, <a href="/wiki/Brooks_Atkinson" title="Brooks Atkinson">Brooks Atkinson</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> calling him "unobjectionably handsome and affable".<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The description of Randy Curtis in the musical – "Beautiful Hunk of Man" – would be frequently used to describe Mature throughout his career. Mature missed some of the run due to an emergency appendectomy,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but played the role until June. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_Century_Fox">20th Century Fox</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 20th Century Fox"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When Mature left <i>Lady in the Dark</i>, he announced that <a href="/wiki/20th_Century_Fox" class="mw-redirect" title="20th Century Fox">20th Century Fox</a> had bought out half of Mature's contract with Hal Roach. His first film under the contract was to be <i>Bowery Nightingale</i> with <a href="/wiki/Alice_Faye" title="Alice Faye">Alice Faye</a>. He was going to follow this with <i><a href="/wiki/The_Shanghai_Gesture" title="The Shanghai Gesture">The Shanghai Gesture</a></i> for <a href="/wiki/Arnold_Pressburger" title="Arnold Pressburger">Arnold Pressburger</a> and <a href="/wiki/Josef_von_Sternberg" title="Josef von Sternberg">Josef von Sternberg</a> at United Artists.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Bowery Nightingale</i> was not made, so Fox instead assigned Mature to appear in a thriller with Faye, <i><a href="/wiki/I_Wake_Up_Screaming" title="I Wake Up Screaming">I Wake Up Screaming</a></i> (which had a working title of <i>Hot Spot</i>); Faye ended up being replaced with <a href="/wiki/Betty_Grable" title="Betty Grable">Betty Grable</a>. Filming of <i>The Shanghai Gesture</i> was postponed to enable Mature to finish <i>Screaming</i>, which was a popular success.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Shanghai Gesture</i> also proved popular. </p><p>Mature was announced for a Fox musical, <i>Highway to Hell</i>, which ended up being postponed; instead, he replaced John Payne in a Betty Grable musical, <i><a href="/wiki/Song_of_the_Islands" title="Song of the Islands">Song of the Islands</a></i> (Mature was replaced in turn on <i>Highway</i> by <a href="/wiki/Cesar_Romero" title="Cesar Romero">Cesar Romero</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mature was paid $450 a week under his contract with Roach for <i>Shanghai Gesture</i>, but Roach received $3750 a week for Mature's services. Roach received $22,000 for Mature in <i>Song of the Islands</i>, but Mature was paid $4,000. He asked for a pay increase of $1,250 a week.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>RKO wanted Mature for <i>Passage to Bordeaux</i> and Josef Von Sternberg wanted him for <i>Lady Paname</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Instead, Mature made another musical for Fox, supporting <a href="/wiki/Rita_Hayworth" title="Rita Hayworth">Rita Hayworth</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/My_Gal_Sal" title="My Gal Sal">My Gal Sal</a></i> (a role originally meant for <a href="/wiki/Don_Ameche" title="Don Ameche">Don Ameche</a>). </p><p>In November 1941, Fox bought out the four years remaining on Mature's contract with Hal Roach for $80,000. (This included loan out provisions to RKO.) Roach had not wanted to sell, but he was in financial difficulties and his backers insisted. Mature would be paid $1,500 a week. He had also had six commitments with RKO. "The studio [Fox] will have to make a success of me," said Mature.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"I wasn't pampered the way a <a href="/wiki/Tyrone_Power" title="Tyrone Power">Tyrone Power</a> was," Mature recalled later of his time at Fox. "Zanuck would say, 'If you're not careful, I'll give you Mature for your next picture'."<sup id="cite_ref-angeles_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-angeles-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fox talked of reuniting Hayworth and Mature in a Russian set war film <i>Ski Patrol</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Instead, Mature was lent to RKO for a musical with <a href="/wiki/Lucille_Ball" title="Lucille Ball">Lucille Ball</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Seven_Days%27_Leave_(1942_film)" title="Seven Days' Leave (1942 film)">Seven Days' Leave</a></i>. This was followed by <i><a href="/wiki/Footlight_Serenade" title="Footlight Serenade">Footlight Serenade</a></i> with Grable and Payne. All these films were very popular at the box office. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_II">World War II</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hayworth-Mature-1942.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Hayworth-Mature-1942.jpg/220px-Hayworth-Mature-1942.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Hayworth-Mature-1942.jpg/330px-Hayworth-Mature-1942.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Hayworth-Mature-1942.jpg/440px-Hayworth-Mature-1942.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6100" data-file-height="3900" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Rita_Hayworth" title="Rita Hayworth">Rita Hayworth</a> and Mature, 1942</figcaption></figure> <p>In July 1942, Mature attempted to enlist in the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Navy" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Navy">U.S. Navy</a> but was rejected for color blindness. He enlisted in the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Coast_Guard" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Coast Guard">U.S. Coast Guard</a> after taking a different eye test the same day. He was assigned to <a href="/wiki/USCGC_Storis" title="USCGC Storis">USCGC <i>Storis</i></a>, which was part of the <a href="/wiki/Greenland_Patrol" title="Greenland Patrol">Greenland Patrol</a>. This meant that when Paramount filmed <i><a href="/wiki/Lady_in_the_Dark_(film)" title="Lady in the Dark (film)">Lady in the Dark</a></i>, Mature was unable to reprise his stage role.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After 14 months aboard <i>Storis</i>, Mature was promoted to the <a href="/wiki/Naval_rating" title="Naval rating">rating</a> of chief <a href="/wiki/Boatswain%27s_mate_(United_States_Coast_Guard)" title="Boatswain's mate (United States Coast Guard)">boatswain's mate</a>. </p><p>In 1944, he did a series of <a href="/wiki/War_bond" title="War bond">war bond</a> tours and acted in morale shows. He assisted Coast Guard recruiting efforts by being a featured player in the musical revue <i>Tars and Spars</i>, which opened in <a href="/wiki/Miami" title="Miami">Miami</a>, Florida, in April 1944 and toured the United States for the next year. In May 1945, Mature was reassigned to the Coast Guard manned troop transport <a href="/wiki/USS_Admiral_H._T._Mayo" title="USS Admiral H. T. Mayo">USS <i>Admiral H. T. Mayo</i></a>, which was involved in transferring troops to the <a href="/wiki/Asiatic-Pacific_Theater" class="mw-redirect" title="Asiatic-Pacific Theater">Pacific Theater</a>. Mature was honorably discharged from the Coast Guard in November 1945 and he resumed his acting career.<sup id="cite_ref-blue_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-blue-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Resumption_of_career">Resumption of career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Resumption of career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Victor_Mature_in_Cry_of_the_City_trailer.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Victor_Mature_in_Cry_of_the_City_trailer.jpg/220px-Victor_Mature_in_Cry_of_the_City_trailer.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Victor_Mature_in_Cry_of_the_City_trailer.jpg/330px-Victor_Mature_in_Cry_of_the_City_trailer.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Victor_Mature_in_Cry_of_the_City_trailer.jpg/440px-Victor_Mature_in_Cry_of_the_City_trailer.jpg 2x" data-file-width="716" data-file-height="561" /></a><figcaption>Mature in the trailer for <i><a href="/wiki/Cry_of_the_City" title="Cry of the City">Cry of the City</a></i></figcaption></figure> <p>In December 1945, Mature signed a new two-year contract with Fox.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fox assigned him to <i><a href="/wiki/Three_Little_Girls_in_Blue" title="Three Little Girls in Blue">Three Little Girls in Blue</a></i>, but he was removed in order to play <a href="/wiki/Philip_Marlowe" title="Philip Marlowe">Philip Marlowe</a> in an adaptation of <i><a href="/wiki/The_High_Window" title="The High Window">The High Window</a></i>. However, Mature withdrew from the project and was cast by <a href="/wiki/John_Ford" title="John Ford">John Ford</a> in 20th Century-Fox's <i><a href="/wiki/My_Darling_Clementine" title="My Darling Clementine">My Darling Clementine</a></i>, playing <a href="/wiki/Doc_Holliday" title="Doc Holliday">Doc Holliday</a> opposite <a href="/wiki/Henry_Fonda" title="Henry Fonda">Henry Fonda</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Wyatt_Earp" title="Wyatt Earp">Wyatt Earp</a>. Fox production head Darryl Zanuck considered it to be one of Mature's finest performances. Speaking of Mature to Ford, Zanuck said: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Personally, I think the guy has been one of the most under-rated performers in Hollywood. The public is crazy about him and strangely enough every picture that he has been in has been a big box-office hit. Yet, the Romanoff round table has refused to take him seriously as an actor. A part like Doc Holiday will be sensational for him and I agree with you that the peculiar traits of his personality are ideal for a characterisation such as this.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Zanuck promised Mature that he would not assign him to musicals. Mature was cast in the period thriller <i><a href="/wiki/Moss_Rose_(film)" title="Moss Rose (film)">Moss Rose</a></i> and received a $50,000 bonus after shooting completed.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His next film was the <a href="/wiki/Film_noir" title="Film noir">film noir</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Kiss_of_Death_(1947_film)" title="Kiss of Death (1947 film)">Kiss of Death</a></i>, which had been developed specifically as a vehicle for him.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While still at Fox, Mature replaced <a href="/wiki/John_Payne_(actor)" title="John Payne (actor)">John Payne</a> in the Western film <i><a href="/wiki/Fury_at_Furnace_Creek" title="Fury at Furnace Creek">Fury at Furnace Creek</a>,</i><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> costarring with <a href="/wiki/Coleen_Gray" title="Coleen Gray">Coleen Gray</a>, who had also starred in <i>Kiss of Death</i> with Mature. Fox announced plans to team them for a third time in a remake of <i><a href="/wiki/Seventh_Heaven_(1937_film)" title="Seventh Heaven (1937 film)">Seventh Heaven</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but the film did not materialize. Instead, he costarred with <a href="/wiki/Richard_Conte" title="Richard Conte">Richard Conte</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Cry_of_the_City" title="Cry of the City">Cry of the City</a>,</i> a thriller directed by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Siodmak" title="Robert Siodmak">Robert Siodmak</a>. Mature's performance as a world-weary cop was widely praised; one reviewer noted that he "turns in an excellent performance, arguably the best of his career."<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mature still had an obligation to make a film at RKO that dated from before the war. He was announced for <i><a href="/wiki/Battleground_(film)" title="Battleground (film)">Battleground</a></i> before being cast in <i>Interference,</i> a serious drama about football that would become <i><a href="/wiki/Easy_Living_(1949_film)" title="Easy Living (1949 film)">Easy Living</a></i> in 1949, starring Lucille Ball.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Samson_and_Delilah"><i>Samson and Delilah</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Samson and Delilah"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Color_photograph_of_Victor_Mature_and_Hedy_Lamarr_as_Samson_and_Delilah.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Color_photograph_of_Victor_Mature_and_Hedy_Lamarr_as_Samson_and_Delilah.jpg/220px-Color_photograph_of_Victor_Mature_and_Hedy_Lamarr_as_Samson_and_Delilah.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="285" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Color_photograph_of_Victor_Mature_and_Hedy_Lamarr_as_Samson_and_Delilah.jpg/330px-Color_photograph_of_Victor_Mature_and_Hedy_Lamarr_as_Samson_and_Delilah.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Color_photograph_of_Victor_Mature_and_Hedy_Lamarr_as_Samson_and_Delilah.jpg/440px-Color_photograph_of_Victor_Mature_and_Hedy_Lamarr_as_Samson_and_Delilah.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1124" data-file-height="1457" /></a><figcaption>Mature with <a href="/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr" title="Hedy Lamarr">Hedy Lamarr</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Samson_and_Delilah_(1949_film)" title="Samson and Delilah (1949 film)">Samson and Delilah</a></i> (1949)</figcaption></figure> <p>Mature's career received a massive lift when he was borrowed by <a href="/wiki/Cecil_B._DeMille" title="Cecil B. DeMille">Cecil B. DeMille</a> at Paramount to play the lead in the $3.5 million biblical spectacular <i>Samson and Delilah</i>. De Mille described the role of <a href="/wiki/Samson" title="Samson">Samson</a> as “a combination <a href="/wiki/Tarzan" title="Tarzan">Tarzan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robin_Hood" title="Robin Hood">Robin Hood</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Superman" title="Superman">Superman</a>.”<sup id="cite_ref-york_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-york-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mature was reluctant to take the role at first out of fear of risking his new postwar reputation as a serious actor, but he changed his mind.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> During filming, Mature was frightened by a number of the animals and mechanical props used in the production, including the lions, the wind machine, the swords and even the water. This infuriated the director, DeMille, who bellowed through his megaphone at the assembled cast and crew: </p><blockquote><p>“I have met a few men in my time. Some have been afraid of heights, some have been afraid of water, some have been afraid of fire, some have been afraid of closed spaces. Some have even been afraid of open spaces – or themselves. But in all my 35 years of picture-making experience, Mr. Mature, I have not until now met a man who was 100 percent yellow.”<sup id="cite_ref-wood_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wood-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>While <i>Samson</i> was in postproduction, Paramount used Mature in another film, co-starring with <a href="/wiki/Betty_Hutton" title="Betty Hutton">Betty Hutton</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Red,_Hot_and_Blue_(film)" title="Red, Hot and Blue (film)">Red, Hot and Blue</a></i>, his first musical in a number of years.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was not particularly popular, and <i>Easy Living</i> was a flop, but <i>Samson and Delilah</i> earned over $12 million during its original run, making it the most popular movie of the 1940s, and responsible for ushering in a cycle of spectacles set in the ancient world. </p><p>Mature returned to Fox and was put in a popular musical with Betty Grable, <i><a href="/wiki/Wabash_Avenue_(film)" title="Wabash Avenue (film)">Wabash Avenue</a></i>. It was directed by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Koster" title="Henry Koster">Henry Koster</a> who recalled Mature was "nice to work with, amusing. He very much looked out for his money always."<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="RKO">RKO</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: RKO"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Victor_Mature_-_Jean_Simmons_-_1967.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/77/Victor_Mature_-_Jean_Simmons_-_1967.jpg/220px-Victor_Mature_-_Jean_Simmons_-_1967.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="286" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/77/Victor_Mature_-_Jean_Simmons_-_1967.jpg/330px-Victor_Mature_-_Jean_Simmons_-_1967.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/77/Victor_Mature_-_Jean_Simmons_-_1967.jpg/440px-Victor_Mature_-_Jean_Simmons_-_1967.jpg 2x" data-file-width="692" data-file-height="899" /></a><figcaption>Mature with <a href="/wiki/Jean_Simmons" title="Jean Simmons">Jean Simmons</a> in <a href="/wiki/Androcles_and_the_Lion_(1952_film)" title="Androcles and the Lion (1952 film)"><i>Androcles and the Lion</i></a> (1952)</figcaption></figure> <p>In late 1949, Mature was meant to fulfill another commitment at RKO, <i>Alias Mike Fury</i> (the new title for <i>Mr Whiskers</i>). Mature refused to make the movie and was put on suspension by Fox.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The script was rewritten and Mature ended up making the film, which was retitled <i><a href="/wiki/Gambling_House_(film)" title="Gambling House (film)">Gambling House</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Back at Fox, he supported <a href="/wiki/Ann_Sheridan" title="Ann Sheridan">Ann Sheridan</a> in a comedy, <i>Stella</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1949, he was directed by <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Tourneur" title="Jacques Tourneur">Jacques Tourneur</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Easy_Living_(1949_film)" title="Easy Living (1949 film)">Easy Living</a></i>. </p><p>In September 1950, he was making a film in Montana about fire fighters, <i>Wild Winds</i>, for Fox with John Lund. Mature injured himself in a motorcycle accident .<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After Lund was stung by a wasp and the location was snowed in, it was decided to abandon the film.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (It was later filmed with new stars as <i><a href="/wiki/Red_Skies_of_Montana" title="Red Skies of Montana">Red Skies of Montana</a></i>.) </p><p>Mature took a number of months off, before returning to filmmaking with <i><a href="/wiki/The_Las_Vegas_Story_(film)" title="The Las Vegas Story (film)">The Las Vegas Story</a></i>, with <a href="/wiki/Jane_Russell" title="Jane Russell">Jane Russell</a> at RKO.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> RKO released – but did not produce – Mature's next film, <i><a href="/wiki/Androcles_and_the_Lion_(1952_film)" title="Androcles and the Lion (1952 film)">Androcles and the Lion</a></i>, an adaptation of the play by <a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</a> with Mature as a Roman centurion.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Like <i>Las Vegas Story</i>, it was a box-office failure. </p><p>Far more popular was a musical he made at <a href="/wiki/MGM" class="mw-redirect" title="MGM">MGM</a>, <i>Million Dollar Mermaid</i> with <a href="/wiki/Esther_Williams" title="Esther Williams">Esther Williams</a>, a biopic of <a href="/wiki/Annette_Kellermann" class="mw-redirect" title="Annette Kellermann">Annette Kellermann</a>, playing Kellermann's promoter husband.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Williams's autobiography, she and Mature had a romantic relationship.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Back at Fox, Mature was meant to be reteamed with Betty Grable in a musical, <i>The Farmer Takes a Wife</i>, but the studio instead reassigned him to a comedy with <a href="/wiki/Patricia_Neal" title="Patricia Neal">Patricia Neal</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Something_for_the_Birds" title="Something for the Birds">Something for the Birds</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Back at RKO, Mature was meant to star in <i><a href="/wiki/Split_Second_(1953_film)" title="Split Second (1953 film)">Split Second</a></i>, but instead was reteamed with <a href="/wiki/Jean_Simmons" title="Jean Simmons">Jean Simmons</a> in the romantic drama <i><a href="/wiki/Affair_with_a_Stranger" title="Affair with a Stranger">Affair with a Stranger</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> RKO still wanted him for <i>Split Second</i>, but instead Fox put him in a <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a> film, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Glory_Brigade" title="The Glory Brigade">The Glory Brigade</a></i>. </p><p>He followed this with a movie at Universal, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Veils_of_Bagdad" title="The Veils of Bagdad">The Veils of Bagdad</a></i>. The release of this was held up until after that of Mature's next film, <i>The Robe</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Robe"><i>The Robe</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: The Robe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Robe_1953_Trailer_Screenshot_9.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/The_Robe_1953_Trailer_Screenshot_9.png/220px-The_Robe_1953_Trailer_Screenshot_9.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/The_Robe_1953_Trailer_Screenshot_9.png/330px-The_Robe_1953_Trailer_Screenshot_9.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/The_Robe_1953_Trailer_Screenshot_9.png/440px-The_Robe_1953_Trailer_Screenshot_9.png 2x" data-file-width="1440" data-file-height="900" /></a><figcaption>Mature in the trailer for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Robe_(film)" title="The Robe (film)">The Robe</a></i></figcaption></figure> <p><i>The Robe</i> had been in development in Hollywood for over a decade. In December 1952, Mature signed to play Demetrius in two movies, <i>The Robe</i> and a sequel, <i>Demetrius and the Gladiators</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The films were shot consecutively.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>The Robe</i>, the first <a href="/wiki/CinemaScope" title="CinemaScope">CinemaScope</a> movie to be released (ahead of <i>How to Marry a Millionaire</i>, which was actually the first film shot in the new process), was an enormous success, one of the most popular movies of all time.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Veils of Bagdad</i> was not as popular, but <i>Demetrius and the Gladiators</i> was another hit. </p><p>Back at RKO, Mature made <i>Dangerous Mission</i> for producer <a href="/wiki/Irwin_Allen" title="Irwin Allen">Irwin Allen</a>. He travelled to Holland in September 1953 to support <a href="/wiki/Clark_Gable" title="Clark Gable">Clark Gable</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lana_Turner" title="Lana Turner">Lana Turner</a> in a World War Two film made at MGM, <i><a href="/wiki/Betrayed_(1954_film)" title="Betrayed (1954 film)">Betrayed</a></i>, another popular success.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fox put Mature into another ancient history spectacle, <i>The Egyptian</i>. He was originally meant to co-star with <a href="/wiki/Marlon_Brando" title="Marlon Brando">Marlon Brando</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kirk_Douglas" title="Kirk Douglas">Kirk Douglas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mature renewed his contract with Fox for another year, his 12th at that studio.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Egyptian</i> ended up starring Mature with <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Purdom" title="Edmund Purdom">Edmund Purdom</a> and Michael Wilding, plus <a href="/wiki/Bella_Darvi" title="Bella Darvi">Bella Darvi</a>; it was a box-office disappointment. </p><p>Mature went over to Universal to play the title role in <i>Chief Crazy Horse</i>, in exchange for a fee and a percentage of the profits.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="End_of_contract_with_Fox">End of contract with Fox</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: End of contract with Fox"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fox wanted Mature to support <a href="/wiki/Tyrone_Power" title="Tyrone Power">Tyrone Power</a> and <a href="/wiki/Susan_Hayward" title="Susan Hayward">Susan Hayward</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Untamed_(1955_film)" title="Untamed (1955 film)">Untamed</a></i> (1955), but Mature refused, claiming he had worked for two years and wanted a vacation. The studio replaced him with <a href="/wiki/Richard_Egan_(actor)" title="Richard Egan (actor)">Richard Egan</a> and put him under what they called a "friendly" suspension.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1954, Mature signed a two-picture deal with Columbia Pictures, giving him script and co-star approval, at $200,000 a film.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first movie he made under this contract was <i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Frontier_(1955_film)" title="The Last Frontier (1955 film)">The Last Frontier</a></i> (1955). </p><p>Before he started making that, however, he was called back to Fox to appear in the heist thriller, <i><a href="/wiki/Violent_Saturday" title="Violent Saturday">Violent Saturday</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was the last movie he made at Fox. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_Artists_and_Warwick_Productions">United Artists and Warwick Productions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: United Artists and Warwick Productions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In March 1955, while making <i>Last Frontier</i>, Mature announced he had also signed a contract with <a href="/wiki/United_Artists" title="United Artists">United Artists</a> for them to finance and distribute six films over five years for Mature's own company.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 1955, Mature signed a two-picture contract with <a href="/wiki/Warwick_Productions" class="mw-redirect" title="Warwick Productions">Warwick Productions</a>. Warwick was an English company that had success making films aimed at the international market with American stars; they released their films in the USA through Columbia Pictures. The first of Mature's films for Warwick was to be <i>Zarak</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He ended up making <i>Safari</i> beforehand, a tale of the <a href="/wiki/Mau_Mau_rebellion" title="Mau Mau rebellion">Mau Mau</a>, filming on location in Kenya. Both <i>Safari</i> and <i>Zarak</i> were successful.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sam Goldwyn Jr, hired him to make <i>The Sharkfighters</i>, released through United Artists and shot on location in Cuba.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was back with Warwick for <i>Interpol</i>, reteaming him with his <i>Zarak</i> co-star, <a href="/wiki/Anita_Ekberg" title="Anita Ekberg">Anita Ekberg</a>, filmed in locations throughout Europe. In London, he made <i>The Long Haul</i>, a truck-driving drama with <a href="/wiki/Diana_Dors" title="Diana Dors">Diana Dors</a>, the second film under his deal with Columbia. </p><p>Mature finally made a movie for his own production company, Romina Productions, in conjunction with United Artists and <a href="/wiki/Batjac_Productions" title="Batjac Productions">Batjac Productions</a>: <i><a href="/wiki/China_Doll_(film)" title="China Doll (film)">China Doll</a></i>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Frank_Borzage" title="Frank Borzage">Frank Borzage</a>, with Mature as co-producer. Mature and Borzage announced they would also make <i>The Incorrigibles</i> and <i>Vaults of Heaven</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mature signed to make two more films with Warwick Productions, <i><a href="/wiki/No_Time_to_Die_(1958_film)" title="No Time to Die (1958 film)">No Time to Die</a></i> (Tank Force) and <i>The Man Inside</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He ended up only making the first, a World War II film with Libyan locations; <a href="/wiki/Jack_Palance" title="Jack Palance">Jack Palance</a> took his role in <i>The Man Inside</i>. </p><p>Mature made another movie for Romina and Batjac, a Western, <i><a href="/wiki/Escort_West" title="Escort West">Escort West</a></i>. It was released by United Artists, which also distributed <i><a href="/wiki/Timbuktu_(1959_film)" title="Timbuktu (1959 film)">Timbuktu</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion" title="French Foreign Legion">French Foreign Legion</a> adventure tale that Mature made for producer <a href="/wiki/Edward_Small" title="Edward Small">Edward Small</a> and director <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Tourneur" title="Jacques Tourneur">Jacques Tourneur</a>. </p><p>Mature was reunited with producer Irwin Allen for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Big_Circus" title="The Big Circus">The Big Circus</a></i>, shot in early 1959.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He then made his second film for Warwick under his two-picture contract with them, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Bandit_of_Zhobe" title="The Bandit of Zhobe">The Bandit of Zhobe</a></i>, following this with an Italian <a href="/wiki/Peplum_(film_genre)" class="mw-redirect" title="Peplum (film genre)">peplum</a>, aka "sword-and-sandal" movie, <i>Hannibal</i>, with Mature in the title role. It was shot in Italy, as was <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tartars" title="The Tartars">The Tartars</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Orson_Welles" title="Orson Welles">Orson Welles</a>. Mature then retired from acting.<sup id="cite_ref-angeles_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-angeles-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a 1978 interview, Mature said of his decision to retire from acting at age 46: "It wasn't fun anymore. "I was OK financially so I thought what the hell – I'll become a professional loafer."<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Retirement">Retirement</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Retirement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After five years of retirement, he was lured back into acting by the opportunity to parody himself in <i><a href="/wiki/After_the_Fox" title="After the Fox">After the Fox</a></i> (1966), co-written by <a href="/wiki/Neil_Simon" title="Neil Simon">Neil Simon</a>. Mature played "Tony Powell," an aging American actor who is living off his reputation from his earlier body of work. In a similar vein in 1968, he played a giant, The Big Victor, in <i><a href="/wiki/Head_(film)" title="Head (film)">Head</a></i>, a movie starring <a href="/wiki/The_Monkees" title="The Monkees">The Monkees</a>. </p><p>Mature was famously self-deprecatory about his acting skills. Once, after being rejected for membership in a country club because he was an actor, he cracked, "I'm not an actor — and I've got 64 films to prove it!"<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was quoted in 1968 on his acting career: "Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics."<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He came out of retirement again in 1971 to star in <i><a href="/wiki/Every_Little_Crook_and_Nanny" title="Every Little Crook and Nanny">Every Little Crook and Nanny</a></i> and again in 1976 along with many other former Hollywood stars in <i><a href="/wiki/Won_Ton_Ton,_the_Dog_Who_Saved_Hollywood" title="Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood">Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood</a></i>. His last feature film appearance was a cameo as a millionaire in <i><a href="/wiki/Firepower_(film)" title="Firepower (film)">Firepower</a></i> in 1979, while his final acting role was that of Samson's father Manoah in the TV movie <i><a href="/wiki/Samson_and_Delilah_(1984_film)" title="Samson and Delilah (1984 film)">Samson and Delilah</a></i> in 1984. In a 1971 interview, Mature quipped about his decision to retire: </p> <blockquote><p>I was never that crazy about acting. I had a compulsion to earn money, not to act. So, I worked as an actor until I could afford to retire. I wanted to quit while I could still enjoy life ... I like to loaf. Everyone told me I would go crazy or die if I quit working. Yeah? Well, what a lovely way to die.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In 1980, he said he was "pretty proud of about 50% of my motion pictures. <i>Demetrius and the Gladiators</i> wasn't bad. <i>The Robe</i> and <i>Samson and Delilah</i> weren't bad. I made 72 of them and I made close to $18 million. So what the hell."<sup id="cite_ref-losa_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-losa-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He said in the same interview his favorite actors were <a href="/wiki/Al_Pacino" title="Al Pacino">Al Pacino</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dustin_Hoffman" title="Dustin Hoffman">Dustin Hoffman</a>, and especially <a href="/wiki/Burt_Reynolds" title="Burt Reynolds">Burt Reynolds</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-losa_79-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-losa-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mature was married five times.<sup id="cite_ref-angeles_28-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-angeles-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Frances Charles (1938–1940, <a href="/wiki/Annulment" title="Annulment">annulled</a>)</li> <li>Martha Stephenson Kemp, the widow of bandleader <a href="/wiki/Hal_Kemp" title="Hal Kemp">Hal Kemp</a>, (1941–1943, divorced)<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Dorothy Stanford Berry (1948–1955, divorced)<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Adrienne Joy Urwick (1959<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>–1969, divorced)</li> <li>Loretta Gaye Sebena, an opera singer (1974 until his death) – with whom he had his only child, daughter Victoria (born 1975).<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Victoria became an opera singer like her mother.<sup id="cite_ref-Variety_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Variety-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>He was also engaged to <a href="/wiki/Rita_Hayworth" title="Rita Hayworth">Rita Hayworth</a>, before she married <a href="/wiki/Orson_Welles" title="Orson Welles">Orson Welles</a>, and to <a href="/wiki/Anne_Shirley_(actress)" title="Anne Shirley (actress)">Anne Shirley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Victor_Mature%27s_Family_Grave.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Victor_Mature%27s_Family_Grave.JPG/220px-Victor_Mature%27s_Family_Grave.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="295" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Victor_Mature%27s_Family_Grave.JPG/330px-Victor_Mature%27s_Family_Grave.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Victor_Mature%27s_Family_Grave.JPG/440px-Victor_Mature%27s_Family_Grave.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1936" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>The Mature family's grave at St. Michael's Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky</figcaption></figure> <p>Mature died of <a href="/wiki/Leukemia" title="Leukemia">leukemia</a> in 1999 at his <a href="/wiki/Rancho_Santa_Fe,_California" title="Rancho Santa Fe, California">Rancho Santa Fe, California</a> home at the age of 86. He was buried in the family plot, marked by a replica of the <a href="/wiki/Angel_of_Grief" title="Angel of Grief">Angel of Grief</a>, at St. Michael's Cemetery in his hometown of <a href="/wiki/Louisville,_Kentucky" title="Louisville, Kentucky">Louisville</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Variety_84-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Variety-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For his contribution to the motion-picture industry, Mature has a star on the <a href="/wiki/Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame" title="Hollywood Walk of Fame">Hollywood Walk of Fame</a> located at 6780 Hollywood Boulevard.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Critical_appraisal">Critical appraisal</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Critical appraisal"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/David_Thomson_(film_critic)" title="David Thomson (film critic)">David Thomson</a> wrote a critical appraisal of Mature in his book <i>The New Biographical Dictionary of Film</i>: </p> <blockquote><p>Mature is an uninhibited creature of the naive. Simple, crude, and heady – like ketchup or treacle – he is a diet scorned by the knowing, but obsessive if succumbed to in error. It is too easy to dismiss Mature, for he surpasses badness. He is a strong man in a land of hundred pound weaklings, an incredible concoction of beef steak, husky voice, and brilliantine – a barely concealed sexual advertisement for soiled goods. Remarkably, he is as much himself in the cheerfully meretricious and the pretentiously serious. Such a career has no more pattern than a large ham; it slices consistently forever. The more lurid or distasteful the art the better Mature comes across.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Filmography">Filmography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Filmography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1253789634">@media screen{.mw-parser-output .sticky-header>thead>tr:first-child,.mw-parser-output .sticky-header>caption+tbody>tr:first-child,.mw-parser-output .sticky-header>tbody:first-child>tr:first-child,.mw-parser-output .sticky-header-multi>thead{position:sticky;top:0;z-index:10}.mw-parser-output .sticky-header:not(.wikitable),.mw-parser-output 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.sticky-header-multi,body.skin-vector-2022 .mw-parser-output .sticky-header,body.skin-vector-2022 .mw-parser-output .sticky-header-multi{display:table}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .sticky-header>caption,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .sticky-header-multi>caption{display:table-caption}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .sticky-header-multi.wikitable{background-color:#101418}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .sticky-header-multi.wikitable{background-color:#101418}}</style> <table class="wikitable sortable sticky-header"> <caption>Feature films </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th>Role </th> <th>Company </th> <th class="unsortable">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>1939 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Housekeeper%27s_Daughter" title="The Housekeeper's Daughter">The Housekeeper's Daughter</a></i> </td> <td>Lefty </td> <td>Hal Roach Studios </td> <td>Film debut </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1940 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/One_Million_B.C." title="One Million B.C.">One Million B.C.</a></i> </td> <td>Tumak </td> <td>Hal Roach Studios </td> <td>Alternative title: <i>Cave Man</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Captain_Caution" title="Captain Caution">Captain Caution</a></i> </td> <td>Dan Marvin </td> <td>Hal Roach Studios </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/No,_No,_Nanette_(1940_film)" title="No, No, Nanette (1940 film)">No, No, Nanette</a></i> </td> <td>William Trainor </td> <td>RKO Studios </td> <td>First screen musical </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">1941 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/I_Wake_Up_Screaming" title="I Wake Up Screaming">I Wake Up Screaming</a></i> </td> <td>Frankie Christopher (Botticelli) </td> <td>20th Century Fox </td> <td>First film noir; Alternative title: <i>Hot Spot</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><span data-sort-value="Shanghai Gesture, The"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/The_Shanghai_Gesture" title="The Shanghai Gesture">The Shanghai Gesture</a></span></span></span></i> </td> <td>Doctor Omar </td> <td>United Artists </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="4">1942 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Song_of_the_Islands" title="Song of the Islands">Song of the Islands</a></i> </td> <td>Jeff Harper </td> <td>20th Century Fox </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/My_Gal_Sal" title="My Gal Sal">My Gal Sal</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Paul_Dresser" title="Paul Dresser">Paul Dresser</a> </td> <td>20th Century Fox </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Footlight_Serenade" title="Footlight Serenade">Footlight Serenade</a></i> </td> <td>Tommy Lundy </td> <td>20th Century Fox </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Seven_Days%27_Leave_(1942_film)" title="Seven Days' Leave (1942 film)">Seven Days' Leave</a></i> </td> <td>Johnny Grey </td> <td>RKO </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1943 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Show_Business_at_War" title="Show Business at War">Show Business at War</a></i> </td> <td>Himself </td> <td> </td> <td>Short subject </td></tr> <tr> <td>1946 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/My_Darling_Clementine" title="My Darling Clementine">My Darling Clementine</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Doc_Holliday" title="Doc Holliday">Doc Holliday</a> </td> <td>20th Century Fox </td> <td>First Western; directed by John Ford </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">1947 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moss_Rose_(film)" title="Moss Rose (film)"><i>Moss Rose</i></a> </td> <td>Michael Drego </td> <td>20th Century Fox </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Kiss_of_Death_(1947_film)" title="Kiss of Death (1947 film)">Kiss of Death</a></i> </td> <td>Nick Bianco </td> <td>20th Century Fox </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">1948 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Fury_at_Furnace_Creek" title="Fury at Furnace Creek">Fury at Furnace Creek</a></i> </td> <td>Cash Blackwell / Tex Cameron </td> <td>20th Century Fox </td> <td>Western </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Cry_of_the_City" title="Cry of the City">Cry of the City</a></i> </td> <td>Lt. Candella </td> <td>20th Century Fox </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1949 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Easy_Living_(1949_film)" title="Easy Living (1949 film)">Easy Living</a></i> </td> <td>Pete Wilson </td> <td>RKO </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Red,_Hot_and_Blue_(film)" title="Red, Hot and Blue (film)">Red, Hot and Blue</a></i> </td> <td>Danny James </td> <td>Paramount </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Samson_and_Delilah_(1949_film)" title="Samson and Delilah (1949 film)">Samson and Delilah</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Samson" title="Samson">Samson</a> </td> <td>Paramount </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">1950 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Wabash_Avenue_(film)" title="Wabash Avenue (film)">Wabash Avenue</a></i> </td> <td>Andy Clark </td> <td>20th Century Fox </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Stella_(1950_film)" title="Stella (1950 film)">Stella</a></i> </td> <td>Jeff DeMarco </td> <td>20th Century Fox </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1951 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Gambling_House_(film)" title="Gambling House (film)">Gambling House</a></i> </td> <td>Marc Fury </td> <td>RKO </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="4">1952 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Las_Vegas_Story_(film)" title="The Las Vegas Story (film)">The Las Vegas Story</a></i> </td> <td>Lt. Dave Andrews </td> <td>RKO </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Something_for_the_Birds" title="Something for the Birds">Something for the Birds</a></i> </td> <td>Steve Bennett </td> <td>20th Century Fox </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Million_Dollar_Mermaid" title="Million Dollar Mermaid">Million Dollar Mermaid</a></i> </td> <td>James Sullivan </td> <td>MGM </td> <td>First movie at MGM </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Androcles_and_the_Lion_(1952_film)" title="Androcles and the Lion (1952 film)">Androcles and the Lion</a></i> </td> <td>Captain </td> <td>RKO </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1953 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Glory_Brigade" title="The Glory Brigade">The Glory Brigade</a></i> </td> <td>Lt. Sam Pryor </td> <td>20th Century Fox </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Affair_with_a_Stranger" title="Affair with a Stranger">Affair with a Stranger</a></i> </td> <td>Bill Blakeley </td> <td>RKO </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><span data-sort-value="Robe, The"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/The_Robe_(film)" title="The Robe (film)">The Robe</a></span></span></span></i> </td> <td>Demetrius </td> <td>20th Century Fox </td> <td>First movie in <a href="/wiki/CinemaScope" title="CinemaScope">CinemaScope</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="5">1954 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Veils_of_Bagdad" title="The Veils of Bagdad">The Veils of Bagdad</a></i> </td> <td>Antar </td> <td>Universal </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Dangerous_Mission" title="Dangerous Mission">Dangerous Mission</a></i> </td> <td>Matt Hallett </td> <td>RKO </td> <td>Alternative title: <i>Rangers of the North</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_and_the_Gladiators" title="Demetrius and the Gladiators">Demetrius and the Gladiators</a></i> </td> <td>Demetrius </td> <td>20th Century Fox </td> <td>Sequel to <i>The Robe</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><span data-sort-value="Egyptian, The"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/The_Egyptian_(film)" title="The Egyptian (film)">The Egyptian</a></span></span></span></i> </td> <td>Horemheb </td> <td>20th Century Fox </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Betrayed_(1954_film)" title="Betrayed (1954 film)">Betrayed</a></i> </td> <td>"The Scarf" </td> <td>MGM </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1955 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Chief_Crazy_Horse_(film)" title="Chief Crazy Horse (film)">Chief Crazy Horse</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chief_Crazy_Horse" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Crazy Horse">Chief Crazy Horse</a> </td> <td>Universal </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Violent_Saturday" title="Violent Saturday">Violent Saturday</a></i> </td> <td>Shelley Martin </td> <td>20th Century Fox </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Frontier_(1955_film)" title="The Last Frontier (1955 film)">The Last Frontier</a></i> </td> <td>Jed Cooper </td> <td>Columbia Pictures </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1956 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Safari_(1956_film)" title="Safari (1956 film)">Safari</a></i> </td> <td>Ken Duffield </td> <td>Warwick Films </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sharkfighters" title="The Sharkfighters">The Sharkfighters</a></i> </td> <td>Lt. Commander Ben Staves </td> <td>United Artists </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Zarak" title="Zarak">Zarak</a></i> </td> <td>Zarak Khan </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Warwick_Films" title="Warwick Films">Warwick Films</a> </td> <td>First film for <a href="/wiki/Warwick_Films" title="Warwick Films">Warwick Films</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">1957 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Interpol_(film)" title="Interpol (film)">Interpol</a></i> </td> <td>Charles Sturgis </td> <td>Warwick Films </td> <td>Alternative title: <i>Pickup Alley</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><span data-sort-value="Long Haul, The"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/The_Long_Haul_(1957_film)" title="The Long Haul (1957 film)">The Long Haul</a></span></span></span></i> </td> <td>Harry Miller </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1958 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/No_Time_to_Die_(1958_film)" title="No Time to Die (1958 film)">No Time to Die</a></i> </td> <td>Sgt. David H. Thatcher </td> <td>Warwick Films </td> <td>Alternative title: <i>Tank Force</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/China_Doll_(film)" title="China Doll (film)">China Doll</a></i> </td> <td>Captain Cliff Brandon </td> <td>Made for Romina Productions, Mature's own company </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Escort_West" title="Escort West">Escort West</a></i> </td> <td>Ben Lassiter </td> <td>Made for Romina Productions, Mature's own company </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="4">1959 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bandit_of_Zhobe" title="The Bandit of Zhobe">The Bandit of Zhobe</a></i> </td> <td>Kasim Khan </td> <td> </td> <td>Last movie for <a href="/wiki/Warwick_Films" title="Warwick Films">Warwick Films</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><span data-sort-value="Big Circus, The"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/The_Big_Circus" title="The Big Circus">The Big Circus</a></span></span></span></i> </td> <td>Henry Jasper "Hank" Whirling </td> <td>Allied Artists </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Timbuktu_(1959_film)" title="Timbuktu (1959 film)">Timbuktu</a></i> </td> <td>Mike Conway </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Hannibal_(1959_film)" title="Hannibal (1959 film)">Hannibal</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hannibal" title="Hannibal">Hannibal</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>Alternative title: <i>Annibale</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1962 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Tartars" title="The Tartars">The Tartars</a></i> </td> <td>Oleg </td> <td>MGM </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1966 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/After_the_Fox" title="After the Fox">After the Fox</a></i> </td> <td>Tony Powell </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1968 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Head_(film)" title="Head (film)">Head</a></i> </td> <td>The Big Victor </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1972 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Every_Little_Crook_and_Nanny" title="Every Little Crook and Nanny">Every Little Crook and Nanny</a></i> </td> <td>Carmine Ganucci </td> <td>MGM </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1976 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Won_Ton_Ton,_the_Dog_Who_Saved_Hollywood" title="Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood">Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood</a></i> </td> <td>Nick </td> <td>Paramount </td> <td>cameo </td></tr> <tr> <td>1979 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Firepower_(film)" title="Firepower (film)">Firepower</a></i> </td> <td>Harold Everett </td> <td> </td> <td>cameo at film's conclusion </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Television </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th>Role </th> <th class="unsortable">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>1977 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/M*A*S*H_(TV_series)" title="M*A*S*H (TV series)">M*A*S*H</a></i> </td> <td>Dr. John "Doc" Holliday </td> <td>TV series, episode: "<a href="/wiki/Movie_Tonight" class="mw-redirect" title="Movie Tonight">Movie Tonight</a>" in movie footage from <i><a href="/wiki/My_Darling_Clementine" title="My Darling Clementine">My Darling Clementine</a></i><br />Uncredited </td></tr> <tr> <td>1984 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Samson_and_Delilah_(1984_film)" title="Samson and Delilah (1984 film)">Samson and Delilah</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Manoah" title="Manoah">Manoah</a> </td> <td>TV movie, final film role </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Theatre_credits">Theatre credits</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Theatre credits"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Back to Methuselah</i> by <a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</a> – Pasadena Playhouse, August 1938<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Autumn Crocus</i> – Pasadena Playhouse September–October 1938<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Paradise Plantation</i> – Pasadena Playhouse November 1938<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>To Quito and Back</i> by <a href="/wiki/Ben_Hecht" title="Ben Hecht">Ben Hecht</a> – Pasadena Playhouse April 1939<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lady_in_the_Dark" title="Lady in the Dark">Lady in the Dark</a></i> – Alvin Theatre, Jan–June 1941<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Radio_appearances">Radio appearances</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Radio appearances"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year</th> <th>Program</th> <th>Episode/source </th></tr> <tr> <td>1946</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Lux_Radio_Theatre" title="Lux Radio Theatre">Lux Radio Theatre</a></i></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Coney_Island_(1943_film)" title="Coney Island (1943 film)">Coney Island</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1949</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Escape_(radio_program)" title="Escape (radio program)">Escape</a></i></td> <td><i>The Fortune Of Vargas</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1953</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Suspense_(radio_drama)" title="Suspense (radio drama)">Suspense</a></i></td> <td><i>Joaquin Murietta, California Outlaw</i><sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References_in_popular_culture">References in popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: References in popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1985, at the Uptown Lounge in <a href="/wiki/Athens,_Georgia" title="Athens, Georgia">Athens, Georgia</a>, <a href="/wiki/R.E.M." title="R.E.M.">R.E.M.</a> performed under the pseudonym Hornets Attack Victor Mature. "We sent a press release that said it was a combination of <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Lee_Lewis" title="Jerry Lee Lewis">Jerry Lee Lewis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joy_Division" title="Joy Division">Joy Division</a>," explained <a href="/wiki/Peter_Buck" title="Peter Buck">Peter Buck</a>. "God knows how we got a date, but we did." The name was used after Buck spotted it in a 'Name Your Band' article in <i><a href="/wiki/Trouser_Press" title="Trouser Press">Trouser Press</a></i>. It told of a Los Angeles band who had taken their name from a newspaper headline describing an incident where furious wasps had ganged up on the actor during a round of golf. The band had since opted for something a little more West Coast, so Buck considered Hornets Attack Victor Mature to be fair game. "I figured anyone who'd pay money to see a band with a name that silly is our kind of person."<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_people_from_the_Louisville_metropolitan_area" title="List of people from the Louisville metropolitan area">List of people from the Louisville metropolitan area</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">1920 U.S. Census, Louisville Ward 4, Jefferson, Kentucky; Roll: T625_578; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 98; Image: 1039</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">World War I Draft Registration, Jefferson County, Kentucky; Roll: 1653508; Draft Board: 3</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">1900 U.S. Census, Louisville Ward 4, Jefferson, Kentucky; Roll: T623 529; Page: 10A</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852–1910). Microfilm rolls #994027-994058. Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFApplegate2014" class="citation book cs1">Applegate, Kris (2014). <i>Legendary Locals of Louisville, Kentucky</i>. 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The reason you are reading about him is that he chose the third". <i>Los Angeles Times</i>. p. I7.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Los+Angeles+Times&rft.atitle=Third+Choice+First%3A+Victor+Mature+was+broke.+He+stood+at+the+fork+of+three+paths%E2%80%94all+dark.+The+reason+you+are+reading+about+him+is+that+he+chose+the+third&rft.pages=I7&rft.date=1941-02-02&rft.aulast=Hough&rft.aufirst=Donald&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVictor+Mature" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChurchill1940" class="citation news cs1">Churchill, Douglas W. 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(September 20, 1940). "Stardom for Mitchell as College Professor: Gwenn Also to 'Teach': Sylvia Sidney Signed: Mature May Do 'Sunny Withers' Subject Named Butler Plans Race Yarn". <i>Los Angeles Times</i>. p. A12.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Los+Angeles+Times&rft.atitle=Stardom+for+Mitchell+as+College+Professor%3A+Gwenn+Also+to+%27Teach%27%3A+Sylvia+Sidney+Signed%3A+Mature+May+Do+%27Sunny+Withers%27+Subject+Named+Butler+Plans+Race+Yarn&rft.pages=A12&rft.date=1940-09-20&rft.aulast=Scheuer&rft.aufirst=Philip+K.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVictor+Mature" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/05/14/93975851.html?pageNumber=31">"22 Films Planned by United Artists: Independent Producers Plan to Invest $30,000,000 in New Features Next Season"</a>. <i>New York Times</i>. May 14, 1940. p. 31.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=New+York+Times&rft.atitle=22+Films+Planned+by+United+Artists%3A+Independent+Producers+Plan+to+Invest+%2430%2C000%2C000+in+New+Features+Next+Season&rft.pages=31&rft.date=1940-05-14&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ftimesmachine.nytimes.com%2Ftimesmachine%2F1940%2F05%2F14%2F93975851.html%3FpageNumber%3D31&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVictor+Mature" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"CRITIC AT LARGE: MATURE STILL HAS A HUNK OF A TIME" Champlin, Charles. <i>Los Angeles Times</i>: m1</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"MATURE WILL ACT IN HART MUSICAL: His Contract to Act Opposite Gertrude Lawrence Leads to Dispute With Group 'SUZANNA' TO PLAY SUNDAY Ten Shows Will Begin New Policy Weak Later—Additional Theatre News Engaged for Dennis King Show Maeterlinck Play Opens Dec. 15" <i>New York Times</i> November 13, 1940: 28.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Victor Mature Hits Stride" Thomas, Kevin. <i>Los Angeles Times</i> 7 December 1966: D15.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"THE PLAY IN REVIEW: Gertrude Lawrence Appears in Moss Hart's Musical Drama, 'Lady in the Dark,' With a Score by Kurt Weill and Lyrics by Ira Gershwin" by BROOKS ATKINSON. <i>New York Times</i> January 24, 1941: 14.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"ALDRICH AND MYERS BUY PLAY BY ACTOR: Allen Nourse's 'John Burgess, Berlin' Is Purchased for Production in Fall BARBARA KENT GETS ROLE Joins Cast of 'The Happiest Days' – 'Theatre' Undergoing Changes in Personnel" <i>New York Times</i> April 28, 1941: 11.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChurchill1941" class="citation news cs1">Churchill, Douglas W. (June 18, 1941). "Victor Mature Cast in Leading Roles for Two Films — 'Tight Shoes' Opening Tonight at Rialto". <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a></i>. p. 25.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Victor+Mature+Cast+in+Leading+Roles+for+Two+Films+%E2%80%94+%27Tight+Shoes%27+Opening+Tonight+at+Rialto&rft.pages=25&rft.date=1941-06-18&rft.aulast=Churchill&rft.aufirst=Douglas+W.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVictor+Mature" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChurchill1941" class="citation news cs1">Churchill, Douglas W. (July 16, 1941). "Screen News Here and in Hollywood: Gene Tierney to Play Role of Poppy in 'Shanghai Gesture' for United Artists; 'The Get-away' Arrives — Melodrama Opens Today at Rialto — Fred MacMurray to Have Lead in New Comedy". <i>New York Times</i>. p. 14.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Screen+News+Here+and+in+Hollywood%3A+Gene+Tierney+to+Play+Role+of+Poppy+in+%27Shanghai+Gesture%27+for+United+Artists%3B+%27The+Get-away%27+Arrives+%E2%80%94+Melodrama+Opens+Today+at+Rialto+%E2%80%94+Fred+MacMurray+to+Have+Lead+in+New+Comedy&rft.pages=14&rft.date=1941-07-16&rft.aulast=Churchill&rft.aufirst=Douglas+W.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVictor+Mature" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSchallert1941" class="citation news cs1">Schallert, Edwin (October 16, 1941). "Subjects Once Banned May Become Pictures: 'Gesture' Generates Idea; Stewart to Adapt Shaw; Mature Going Tropical; Berlin Pens Film Tunes; Dorsey Singers to Sign". <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a></i>. p. 16.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Los+Angeles+Times&rft.atitle=Subjects+Once+Banned+May+Become+Pictures%3A+%27Gesture%27+Generates+Idea%3B+Stewart+to+Adapt+Shaw%3B+Mature+Going+Tropical%3B+Berlin+Pens+Film+Tunes%3B+Dorsey+Singers+to+Sign&rft.pages=16&rft.date=1941-10-16&rft.aulast=Schallert&rft.aufirst=Edwin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVictor+Mature" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVallance1999" class="citation news cs1">Vallance, Tom (August 11, 1999). <span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-victor-mature-1112009.html">"Obituary: Victor Mature"</a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220817/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-victor-mature-1112009.html">Archived</a> from the original on August 17, 2022<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 20,</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Independent&rft.atitle=Obituary%3A+Victor+Mature&rft.date=1999-08-11&rft.aulast=Vallance&rft.aufirst=Tom&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Farts-entertainment%2Fobituary-victor-mature-1112009.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVictor+Mature" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChurchill1941" class="citation news cs1">Churchill, Douglas W. (October 26, 1941). 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Picture to Arrive: 'Target for Tonight,' Opening at Globe Friday, Shows Air Raids Over Germany". <i>New York Times</i>. p. 29.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Screen+News+Here+and+in+Hollywood%3A+Victor+Mature+to+Star+in+New+Film+After+Adjustment+of+Salary+by+Hal+Roach%3A+R.A.F.+Picture+to+Arrive%3A+%27Target+for+Tonight%2C%27+Opening+at+Globe+Friday%2C+Shows+Air+Raids+Over+Germany&rft.pages=29&rft.date=1941-10-14&rft.aulast=Churchill&rft.aufirst=Douglas+W.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVictor+Mature" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrady1941" class="citation news cs1">Brady, Thomas (November 23, 1941). "<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'Yankee Doodle Dandy' Nears the Cameras: Film About George M. Cohan Will Boost The Democratic Way — A Star Is Sold". <i>New York Times</i>. p. X5.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=New+York+Times&rft.atitle=%27Yankee+Doodle+Dandy%27+Nears+the+Cameras%3A+Film+About+George+M.+Cohan+Will+Boost+The+Democratic+Way+%E2%80%94+A+Star+Is+Sold&rft.pages=X5&rft.date=1941-11-23&rft.aulast=Brady&rft.aufirst=Thomas&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVictor+Mature" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-angeles-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-angeles_28-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-angeles_28-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-angeles_28-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHarmetz1971" class="citation news cs1">Harmetz, Aljean (December 12, 1971). "Victor Mature—Fresh Out of Rancho Santa Fe". <i>Los Angeles Times</i>. p. Z1.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Los+Angeles+Times&rft.atitle=Victor+Mature%E2%80%94Fresh+Out+of+Rancho+Santa+Fe&rft.pages=Z1&rft.date=1971-12-12&rft.aulast=Harmetz&rft.aufirst=Aljean&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVictor+Mature" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSchallert1942" class="citation news cs1">Schallert, Edwin (May 18, 1942). "Drama: Rita Hayworth, Mature Reunion Much Sought; Kaye's Sylvia Scripter; Tone's Bride Makes Test; Cotten in 'Casablanca'; John Beal Faces Camera; Carlson in 'White Cargo'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>". <i>Los Angeles Times</i>. p. 14.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Los+Angeles+Times&rft.atitle=Drama%3A+Rita+Hayworth%2C+Mature+Reunion+Much+Sought%3B+Kaye%27s+Sylvia+Scripter%3B+Tone%27s+Bride+Makes+Test%3B+Cotten+in+%27Casablanca%27%3B+John+Beal+Faces+Camera%3B+Carlson+in+%27White+Cargo%27&rft.pages=14&rft.date=1942-05-18&rft.aulast=Schallert&rft.aufirst=Edwin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVictor+Mature" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"SCREEN NEWS HERE AND IN HOLLYWOOD: Rosemary Lane to Return to Films in Feminine Lead in Republic's 'Chatterbox' THREE PICTURES TO OPEN ' Casablanca' Due at Hollywood – 'White Cargo' at Capitol, 'Ravaged Earth' at Gaiety" By Telephone to THE NEW YORK TIMES.. <i>New York Times</i> November 26, 1942: 41</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1">"M'Callister Gets Lead in 'Red House': Out of Army, Actor Resumes Career With Sol Lesser—New Picture at Globe". <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a></i>. 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"Victor Mature Stars Opposite Simmons; Wald Seeks New Hayward Deal". <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a></i>. p. A11.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Los+Angeles+Times&rft.atitle=Victor+Mature+Stars+Opposite+Simmons%3B+Wald+Seeks+New+Hayward+Deal&rft.pages=A11&rft.date=1952-07-10&rft.aulast=Schallert&rft.aufirst=Edwin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVictor+Mature" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-56">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Victor Mature to Do 'Story of Demetrius'" Hopper, Hedda. <i>Los Angeles Times</i> January 10, 1953: 14.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-57">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"RANDOM OBSERVATIONS ON PICTURES AND PEOPLE" By HOWARD THOMPSON. <i>New York Times</i> September 20, 1953: X5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-58">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"CinemaScope Supporters Confident: Hollywood Letter" by Richard Dyer MacCann. <i>The Christian Science Monitor</i> November 24, 1953: 11.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-59">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Drama: Victor Mature Likely for Europe; Westerns Claiming Philip Carey" Schallert, Edwin. <i>Los Angeles Times</i> September 18, 1953: 20.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-60">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"MOVIE PRODUCERS 'LURED' OVERSEAS: Foreign 'Pressures,' Including Subsidies, Basis for Trend, Actors' Spokesman Says" by THOMAS M. PRYOR . <i>New York Times</i> November 27, 1953: 22.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-61">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Drama: Gann Book About Hong Kong Likely for Wayne; Gomez to Play Skipper" Schallert, Edwin. <i>Los Angeles Times</i> January 1, 1954: B7.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-62">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Mature Renews Pact 12th Time" <i>Los Angeles Times</i> January 17, 1954: E4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"SUBSIDIES TO ITALY ON FILMS DECRIED: Talks on New Agreement Are Seeking End to the Practice, Held 'Dangerous' Precedent" by THOMAS M. PRYOR . <i>New York Times</i> May 22, 1954: 8.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-64">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"M-G-M TO MAKE 27 FILMS IN YEAR: 8 Movies Will Start Within 60 Days – Three Broadway Plays on Studio Schedule" . <i>New York Times</i> August 4, 1954: 17.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-65">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hedda Hopper, 'Victor Mature Signs Deal for 2 Films at $200,000 Each' <i>Chicago Daily Tribune</i> November 6, 1954: 16.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-66">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"SPIEGEL ACQUIRES BOOK FILM RIGHTS: Producer Hopes to Get John Ford to Direct 'The Bridge Over the River Kwai'" by THOMAS M. PRYOR . <i>New York Times</i> November 20, 1954: 10</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-67">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"FILM LADIES' DAY: THREE STARS CAST: Elizabeth Taylor, Rosalind Russell and <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Holm" title="Eleanor Holm">Eleanor Holm</a> Signed for New Movies" by THOMAS M. PRYOR . <i>New York Times</i> March 18, 1955: 33.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-68">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"TV PACT IS SIGNED BY SCREEN GUILD: Agreement by Du Mont and Union Includes Use of New Video Filming Method" by THOMAS M. 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PRYOR HOLLYWOOD.. <i>New York Times</i> January 11, 1959: X7.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-74"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-74">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Whatever Happened to Lady Joan?" <i>Los Angeles Times</i> June 27, 1978: f6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-75"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-75">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.uscg.mil/history/FAQS/victormature.asp">"Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard History"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Department+of+Homeland+Security%2C+United+States+Coast+Guard+History&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uscg.mil%2Fhistory%2FFAQS%2Fvictormature.asp&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVictor+Mature" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-76"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-76">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kevin Thomas, 'Victor Mature Hits Stride', <i>Los Angeles Times</i> December 7, 1966: D15.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-77"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-77">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Shipman, David. <i>The Great Movie Stars: The International Years</i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">June 21,</span> 2015</span> – via <a href="/wiki/Newspapers.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Newspapers.com">Newspapers.com</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Decatur+Daily+Review&rft.atitle=Better+Radio+Programs+for+the+Week&rft.pages=42&rft.date=1953-02-15&rft.aulast=Kirby&rft.aufirst=Walter&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers.com%2Fclip%2F2660609%2Fthe_decatur_daily_review%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVictor+Mature" class="Z3988"></span> <span style="position:relative; top: -2px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Open_access" title="open access publication – free to read"><img alt="Open access icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Open_Access_logo_PLoS_transparent.svg/9px-Open_Access_logo_PLoS_transparent.svg.png" decoding="async" width="9" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Open_Access_logo_PLoS_transparent.svg/14px-Open_Access_logo_PLoS_transparent.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Open_Access_logo_PLoS_transparent.svg/18px-Open_Access_logo_PLoS_transparent.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-95"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-95">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a href="/wiki/Melody_Maker" title="Melody Maker">Melody Maker</a></i>, 1985</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Mature&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>McKay, James. <i>The Films of Victor Mature</i> 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