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John Emmett Raitt, 19 January 1917, Santa Ana, California, USA, d. 20 February 2005, Pacific Palisades, California, USA. An actor and singer with a magnificent baritone voice, Raitt sang in light opera and concerts before playing the lead in a Chicago production of Oklahoma! (1944). In the following year he made his Broadway debut, playing Billy Bigelow, and introducing immortal songs such as "If I Loved You" and "Soliloquy", in Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's wonderful Carousel. Three years later, he appeared on Broadway again in the short-lived and "unconventional" Magdelana. This was followed in 1952 by the "whimsical" Three Wishes For Jamie, which was "too treacly" to run for long. Carnival In Flanders (1953), despite a score by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen that contained "Here's That Rainy Day", provided less than a week's employment, but his next job, as the factory superintendent in The Pajama Game (1954), lasted nearly two and a half years....
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