Trivia of Victor Mature
Trivia of Victor Mature
*Although several sources suggest that Mature's family name was originally Maturi, United States and Austrian birth, immigration, census and other records, as well as Victor Mature himself, are quite clear that as of 1877, the family name was Mature.
*Hoping to become an actor, he studied at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. He auditioned for Gone with the Wind (1939) for the role ultimately played by his fellow Playhouse student, George Reeves
*Making use of his powerful physique, he became associated with "beefcake" scenes involving bondage and torture: in Samson and Delilah (1949), he was blinded and forced to turn a gristmill; in The Robe (1953), he suffered while stretched out on a torture-table inside a Roman dungeon; in Zarak (1956), he endured two separate floggings; and in Timbuktu (1958), he found himself staked out, spreadeagle style, under a dangling tarantula
*He was supposed to fight the lion bare-handed in Samson and Delilah (1949), but he managed to convince Cecil B. DeMille to use a stunt double (Kay Bell) instead. "I had no love for the lion," the actor told Movieland Magazine, "and he wasn't carrying any torch for me. In the scene in which I was supposed to be stalking him, Cecil DeMille kept urging me to get closer, and I was calling out, 'Nice kitty, nice kitty.' Didn't do any good. . . A stunt man finally tackled the lion".
*More interested in golf than acting.Applying for membership in the swank Los Angeles Country Club at the height of his fame, Mature was turned down and told that the golfing facility did not accept actors as members. His response: "I'm not an actor - and I've got 64 films to prove it!".
*His last film appearance was in 1984. He took up a role as Samson’s father in the new version of the film Samson and Delilah.
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