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Ella Wallace Raines (August 6, 1920 – May 30, 1988) was an American film and television actress.

Born Ella Wallace Raubes near Snoqualmie Falls, Washington, Raines studied drama at the University of Washington and was appearing in a play there when she was seen by Howard Hawks. She became the first actor signed to the new production company he had formed with the actor Charles Boyer, “B-H Productions”, and made her film debut in Corvette K-225 in 1943. Immediately following her role in that film, she was cast in the all female war film Cry ‘Havoc’, made the same year. In 1944 she starred in a series of big films including the film noir Phantom Lady, the comedy Hail the Conquering Hero, and the John Wayne western Tall in the Saddle. Soon, she began appearing in B-films including 1945’s The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry with Geraldine Fitzgerald and George Sanders and the 1947 thriller The Web. With the exception of Brute Force, in which Raines appeared with Burt Lancaster, none of her later films were nearly as successful as her previous movies and her career began to decline.
Raines appeared on the cover of Life magazine twice, once in 1944 for her work in Phantom Lady and once in 1947 for Brute Force.
In 1954 and 1955 she starred in the television series Janet Dean, Registered Nurse. She also appeared in such television series as Robert Montgomery Presents, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents, Lights Out, Pulitzer Prize Playhouse and The Christophers.
She retired from acting in 1957, but made one further screen appearance with a guest role in the series Matt Houston in 1984.
Raines has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to motion pictures at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard, and for television at 6600 Hollywood Boulevard.
Personal life[edit]
Raines was married, secondly, in 1947 to United States Air Force fighter pilot Brigadier General Robin Olds; the couple had two children.
Death[edit]
She died from throat cancer in Sherman Oaks, California in 1988, aged 67.

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Author Butler is best-known, at least in our little neck of the woods, for the numerous stories he pounded out for such pulps as Black Mask, Detective Fiction Weekly, Double Detective and especially, Dime Detective.
His best known series character, of course, was Steve Midnight, the trouble-prone hack for the Red Owl Cab Company of Los Angeles, who appeared in nine stories in Dime Detective, but he was also responsible for the adventures of police detective Rex Lonergan, undercover cop Tricky Enright, and hard-boiled phone company inspector Rod Case and even penned one story about Sandy Taylor of the Harbor Police.
But Butler was also one of the most prolific writers of B-pictures, eventually cranking out scripts for over 50 B-flicks, mostly for Republic Pictures, more than half of them westerns, many of them featuring Roy Rogers. among his screen credits are such classic — and occasionally alternative classics — as Ambush at Cimarron Pass, Drums Along the River, My Pal Trigger, The Vampire’s Ghost and– get this — Post Office Investigator, about a hard-boiled, um, post office inspector. A nitrate print of it survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives but is not listed for preservation.
In the fifties, Butler moved on to television, again favouring westerns, although he also wrote for shows like The New Adventures of Charlie Chan, The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu and 77 Sunset Strip.
Butler was also a bit of a wingnut, dressing up in cowboy drag and galloping through Griffith Park on his horse Prince. You might even say he died in the saddle — he broke his back during a ride in 1964.

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Hoo-boy! They sure had some peculiar occupations, those hardboiled dicks of the pulps. ROD CASE was a hard-nosed investigator for the General Pacific Telephone Company in a short series of short stories that ran in Black Mask in the early 40’s.