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John Payne was an American movie actor who is mainly remembered as a singer in 20th Century Fox film musicals. Payne was born May 23, 1912 in Roanoke, Virginia. Payne's mother had been a successful opera singer and she encouraged her son to sing. Payne enrolled at Columbia University in the fall of 1930. He studied drama at Columbia and voice at Juilliard. To support himself, he took on a variety of odd jobs, including wrestling and singing in vaudeville. In 1934, he was spotted by a talent scout for the Schubert Theater and was given a a job as a stock player. Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation is one of the Big Ten movie studios, located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, California, USA, just west of Beverly Hills. ... Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theater combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... May 23 is the 143rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (144th in leap years). ... 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ... Roanoke (The Star City of the South) is an independent city located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ... Columbia University is a large private research university in New York City comprising, through its affiliates, five undergraduate colleges and sixteen graduate and professional schools. ... The Juilliard School is a performing arts conservatory in New York City, informally but definitively identified as simply Juilliard, and most famous for its musically-trained alumni. ... Vaudeville is a style of theater, also known as variety, which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. ...

He toured with several Schubert shows, and frequently sang on New York-based radio programs. In 1936, Payne was offered a contract by Samuel Goldwyn, and he left New York for Hollywood. In 1940 he signed with 20th-Century Fox, where he achieved stardom in a number of early 1940s musicals, including Sun Valley Serenade (1941) and Weekend in Havana (1941).

Later in his career he changed his image and began playing tough-guy roles in Hollywood films noir and westerns including 99 River Street (1953), Silver Lode (1954), Slightly Scarlet (1956) and Kansas City Confidential (1952). Payne's most popular role may be that of Fred Gailey in Miracle on 34th Street (1947). Film noir is a stylistic approach to genre films forged in depression era detective and gangster movies and hard-boiled detective stories which were a staple of pulp fiction. ... Broncho Billy Anderson, from The Great Train Robbery The Western movie is one of the classic American film genres. ... In Tolkiens Middle-earth, the river Celebrant was a stream rising in the eastern Misty Mountains near the exit from Moria. ... Miracle on 34th Street (also called The Big Heart) is a 1947 film which tells the story of a gentle old man, working as a Santa Claus at Macys department store in New York City, who contends that he really is Santa. ...

In 1955 paid a $1,000 a month option for 9 months on the Ian Fleming James Bond novel Moonraker (he eventually gave up the option when he learned he couldn't retain the rights for the entire book series). Ian Fleming Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908–August 12, 1964) is the British author, best remembered for writing the James Bond series of novels. ... For the ornithologist see James Bond (ornithologist). ... A 2002 Penguin Books paperback edition Moonraker is both a James Bond book by Ian Fleming first published in 1955, and a 1979 movie loosely adapted from the book. ...

Payne was once married to actress Anne Shirley Anne Shirley (April 17, 1918 - July 4, 1993) was the name of an American actress, born Dawn Evelyn Paris, who began acting under the name of Dawn ODay. ...

In the early 60s he suffered an automobile wreck, in which he suffered extensive, life-threatening injuries. Because of that, Payne didn't appear in any films from 1962-1968. In his later roles, facial scars from the accident can be detected in close-ups. He directed one of his last films, They Ran for Their Lives (1968). Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century Decades: 10s - 20s _ 30s - 40s - 50s _ 60s _ 70s - 80s - 90s - 100s - 110s 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 Note: Sometimes the 60s is used as shorthand for the 1960s, the 1860s, or other such decades...

Later in life, Payne became wealthy through real estate investments in southern California. He was a direct decendent of John Howard Payne, composer of the classic song "Home, Sweet Home" ("Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."). He died December 6, 1989 in Malibu, California due to congestive heart failure. Payne has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He is the Father-in-law of writer-director Robert Towne. December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Malibu is a city located in Los Angeles County, California. ... Congestive heart failure (CHF) (also called heart failure) is the inability of the heart to pump blood effectively to the body, or requiring elevated filling pressures in order to pump effectively. ... A small part of the Walk of Fame The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, California, United States, which is embedded with more than 2,000 five-pointed stars featuring the names of celebrities honored by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce... Robert Towne (born November 23, 1934) is an American screenwriter and director. ...