IN MEMORY

VICTOR JOHN MATURE

January 29, 1913 - August 4, 1999

You honored us with your presence in our lives,

You touched our hearts with your charm and humor,

We will miss you and we will remember you always...

There have been visitors since 5 September 1998.

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Welcome to Mature's Matinee - The Victor Mature Fan Club and Website. Please visit often! The goal of this fan club is to showcase the life, career and great movies of the talented actor and screen legend Victor Mature. This fan club is a place where Victor's fans can meet to discuss the movies and life of a true Hollywood legend.

The web has a links section so you can find information on the internet about his movies and personal life. Also there are extensive picture galleries, biographical information, a guestbook, message boards, mailing list and two vintage article/picture sections with wonderful information beginning with his childhood - plus much more. If you have any stories or photos you'd like added please e-mail the fan club. You will be given credit for each submission. THIS SITE IS UPDATED AT LEAST TWICE A MONTH SO PLEASE CHECK BACK OFTEN!

 

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Thank you to award winning artist, cartoonist, photographer and more, Ed Seeman for sharing his wonderful montage portrait of Victor Mature with our website. He is currently devoting his life to creating montage portraits of world famous actors and actresses. Visit his amazing website at: www.edseeman.com/FRACTALEGENDS.htm Mr. Seeman captures and blends all of the most memorable aspects of a person’s career all in one work of art. Read much more about his fascinating career by checking out all of the sections on his official site at: edseeman.com/ Thank you again to Mr. Seeman for this wonderful work of art!

 

 

Victoria Mature is Ms. Noir City! From Eddie Muller: "NOIR CITY 18 LINEUP REVEALED. Take a trip to dark and dangerous corners of the globe without leaving the comfort of a majestic movie palace. NOIR CITY: INTERNATIONAL II comes to San Francisco's Castro Theatre January 24. Check out the schedule and buy your passport here. http://www.noircity.com/" -- The Film Noir Foundation Presents
NOIR CITY: INTERNATIONAL II

The 18th Annual San Francisco Film Noir Festival

America doesn't have a monopoly on swaggering gangsters, larcenous lovers, surly ex-cons, corrupt cops, and scheming femmes fatales. Six years after the first NOIR CITY: INTERNATIONAL—the Film Noir Foundation is at it again: presenting an array of classic films from around the globe, a wide-ranging, thematically cohesive immersion in a sordid world of sinister and sexy affairs—including the world premieres of two new restorations by the Film Noir Foundation! Yes, "It's a Bitter Little World"— but for ten days and nights at the majestic Castro Theatre, NOIR CITY is cinema paradiso! As always, the festival is programmed and hosted by Eddie Muller, internationally renowned "Czar of Noir" and host of the popular Turner Classic Movies series Noir Alley.

For veteran cinephiles, it's a chance to again experience cherished cinematic masterpieces in a bona fide movie palace. For those just starting their cinematic journey, NOIR CITY is the perfect introduction to a wide world of international filmmakers and stars, on the big screen, larger than life. The 10-day excursion travels through hot-blooded nightclubs of the Mexican cabareteras, neon-streaked alleys of Japanese yakuza thrillers, the stylish Parisian underworld, Italian palazzos hiding crimes of every social strata, a Kafkaesque Prague as envisioned by the Czech New Wave — even a rare serial killer film set in Nazi Germany made by Hollywood's finest director of film noir, Robert Siodmak. Tour guides include some of the world's most revered filmmakers: Michelangelo Antonioni, Andzrej Wajda, Julien Duvivier, Jean-Pierre Melville, Roberto Gavaldón, Jirí Weiss, and Masahiro Shinoda.

Including: Wednesday, Jan 29 ENGLAND
THE LONG HAUL 7:00

For all of the details visit: http://www.noircity.com/

 

Exciting news!!! Victoria Mature introduced a nitrate print of Samson and Delilah with Alan K. Rode at the 10th TCM Classic Film Festival 2019!!! Victoria was a special guest at the TCMFF on Saturday April 13, 2019, 9:30 p.m. - 11:45 p.m. at the Egyptian Theatre. Check out her page here: http://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/special-guests/victoria-mature/ It was an amazing evening getting to see Victoria and hearing her discuss her father's life and career and getting to see Samson and Delilah on the big screen!

 

HAPPY 25 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTOR MATURE FAN CLUB ON SEPTEMBER 5, 2023!!!
 

BUY RARE VICTOR MATURE MOVIES!!!

VIEW VICTOR MATURE'S COSTUMES!!! - Not For Sale

JOIN THE NEW CAMPAIGN TO HAVE A&E DO A BIOGRAPHY ON VICTOR MATURE!
BUY VICTOR'S MOVIES!
Buy Charles Rubin's fabulous NEW BOOK! You will love it!
Make sure to visit Loretta Lynn's Coal Miners Daughter Museum and visit the exhibit dedicated to Victor's life and career! For all of the exciting details visit Loretta Lynn.com
Before you leave, please visit Biography (Click on PROGRAMMING and then BIOGRAPHY SUGGESTION) and e-mail them and let them know that you want them to do a segment on VICTOR MATURE!

MAKE VICTOR "STAR OF THE MONTH" ON TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES! E-MAIL TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES AND LET THEM KNOW THAT YOU'D LIKE TO SEE VICTOR AS "STAR OF THE MONTH". JUST VISIT THEIR FEEDBACK PAGE, SELECT "STAR OF THE MONTH" UNDER CATEGORY AND REQUEST THAT THEY MAKE VICTOR "STAR OF THE MONTH"! SPECIAL THANKS TO DIXIE!
Tripod, for some unknown reason, (which they still refuse to explain to me) deleted a huge part of the website and won't give me the account back. So I've moved the files to VictorMature.org Just click the graphic above to view all of the files. Thank you so much for your patience during this time while I've been moving everything! :)
THIS SITE IS BEST VIEWED WITH INTERNET EXPLORER. I'VE BEEN USING FIREFOX A LOT LATELY AND FOR SOME REASON THESE NEW FILES AND THE TRIPOD ONES DO NOT SHOW UP LIKE THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO. SO FOR YOUR BEST VIEWING EXPERIENCE PLEASE USE INTERNET EXPLORER OR SAFARI. THANK YOU :)

There is an online group and two websites that have taken HUNDREDS of copyrighted photos and articles off of this site and have reposted them. These photos/articles are copyrighted and have been given for use ONLY ON THIS SITE. PLEASE DO NOT take any pictures or articles off of this site and repost them anywhere else. They are property of their original owners who have kindly given them for use on this site. Also the articles that have been taken were given to me to reprint with permission from certain writers/journalists and are NOT to be reprinted anywhere else.

PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL AND DO NOT REPOST ANY PHOTOS AND ARTICLES FROM THIS SITE. Thank you.

 

Make sure to also Become A Fan of Victor Mature on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Victor-Mature/76005117918

Myspace Page: http://www.myspace.com/victormaturefanclub

OR JUST CLICK ON THE "LIKE" & "ADD ME" BUTTONS BELOW!

Facebook deleted Victor's other Facebook Profile which had over 4,200 friends and won't reopen it. :-( Please FRIEND VICTOR MATURE'S NEW OFFICIAL FACEBOOK PROFILE PAGE. THE LINK IS BELOW. He has over 5,000 Friends so far.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100015681460900

 

Follow Victor and VictorMature.net Through These Social Media. Check Them All Out And Make Sure To Follow!

Follow Victor's Twitter Accounts Run By Victor's Daughter Victoria here!

 

 

 

Here is the site where I uploaded all of the photos from 2016-2020.

Photos Being Uploaded in 2022 Will Be Here

CHECK BACK FREQUENTLY AND READ ALL OF THE UPDATES FROM 2015 HERE: 2015 Updates --- July 2014 to June 2015 Update --- 2014 Updates

ALL PREVIOUS UPDATES: 5 September 1998 through 4 March 2001 --- 2001 through 2008 --- 2008 through 2011 --- 2011 through 2013 ---

April 2013 through September 2013 --- September 2013 through December 2013 --- 2014 Updates

14 December 2024 - Check out all of the latest Victor Mature news on his Facebook pages! All of his social media links can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/VictorJohnMature/ Follow his Bluesky account here: https://bsky.app/profile/victormature.bsky.social

27 January 2024 - Thankfully the Tripod sites are working correctly again. :-)

11 January 2024 - Many parts of this site have been hosted on Tripod for about 25 years. For some reason they've added tons of ads to each page so all of Victor info is squished over to one side on the Tripod page. Very sorry for this. I will have to try to figure out how to fix this or will have to move the pages soon. Sorry again!

22 September 2023 - Here are great photos from Noir City Hollywood 2023 with Victoria Mature, Tommy Cook and Alan K. Rode.

17 May 2023 - Thank you to Victoria Mature for these wonderful photos from The Arthur Lyons 2023 Film Noir Festival and The Victor Mature Classic at the Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club!

11 May 2023: Check out this fantastic podcast with Victoria Mature and Alan K. Rode about the Arthur Lyons 2023 Film Noir Festival!

24 February 2023 - Due to compatibility issues with software, if you see any files with noelledewinterdesign.com or victormature.org just type "victormature.tripod.com" in place of those words and it will take you to the correct page. I'm re-writing everything, but for now if there are any missing picture or files, please do that. Thank you! :-) Most of the photos from 2017 to 2022 are on the site and I will be uploading the rest. But if there are any you can't find, please visit all of Victor's social media because every file/picture/article is on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube etc. on Victor's Official Social Media accounts. Thanks for your patience as I re-write and save files!

20 October 2022 - The software I used to use to make galleries isn't working so I set up a separate Wix website for photos I'm currently uploading from 2020 to the present. They are presented beautifully. You can visit the site at: victormaturefanclub.wixsite.com/victormature and click on Portfolio.

18 September 2022 - The Facebook feeds are working now.

20 August 2022 - The files have been fixed. I'm working on a new update. :-) For some reason, the Facebook feeds are not loading on this page through Chrome so make sure to visit all of Victor's social media pages on Facebook for all of the info! Just click on the links above! They work on Firefox.

1 January 2022 - Due to some web hosting issues many pictures are not showing up on the website. This affects like 1,000 files so I'm trying to figure out how to fix it. If there is a photo missing and you want to see it instead of the "victormature.org" instead type "noelledewinterdesign.com" where "victormature.org" appears and the photo will show up. I was using my old web design company hosting to store many of the Victor photos but it won't forward anymore for some reason so the pictures just don't show up. Hopefully I'll figure out a way to fix this quickly. Thank you for your patience and very sorry for the problems.

7 February 2021 - There was a computer crash so I saved all of the files from 2016-2020 in a separate account to make sure nothing was lost. You can view all of the full sized photos HERE in a separate account. There are a few pictures of Vic that haven't been posted on Facebook yet. Check them all out!

19 December 2019 - For this update 4 pages of photos have been added! Pictures and links from June, September and November. Plus Noir City 18! Victoria Mature is Ms. Noir City! The Long Haul is being screened!

1 August 2019 - Just a note: I designed this site with a lot of Flash (which I love) but most browsers do not support Flash anymore so I'm trying to delete the Flash and fix the pages. I used a lot of Flash for menus around the site so apologies if you have any problems navigating any of the pages. I will be fixing everything a little at a time. Very sorry again! :-) For this mini update I added a great new article from 1950 about Stella.

4 June 2019 - One page with fantastic pictures from the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival 2019 has been added here: Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival 2019. All of the photos and info from May have been added HERE.

11 May 2019 - Two pages with fantastic pictures from the TCMFF 2019 have been added here: TCMFF page 1, TCMFF page 2. All of the photos and info from April have been added HERE.

31 March 2019 - 12 pages of great articles and Victor pictures have been added from the past year! Check them all out below! Also March 2019 has been added with additional photos from the past year: HERE.

Film Geeks San Diego "I Wake Up Screaming" (Victoria Mature) - Noir City 16 "I Wake Up Screaming" (Victoria Mature) - Noir On The Boulevard "I Wake Up Screaming" Introduction By Victoria Mature - Russ Saunders Tumblers - Marion Ross Bio That Mentions Victor - Patricia Morison Has Passed Away - Arthur Lyons Film Festival (Victoria Mature) - Arthur Lyons Film Festival - Victoria Mature Picture With Victoria Price - Noir City Austin "I Wake Up Screaming" - Palm Springs Film Noir Festival (Victoria Mature) - Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival and Victor's Daughter, Victoria sharing memories of her father with Alan K. Rode.

5 March 2019 - For this mini update photos and info about Victor have been added from November and December 2018 and January and February 2019. Make sure to check them out!

29 November 2018 - For this mini update there is a new page with all of the pictures and info from October and November 2018 here: http://geocities.ws/victormature/october2018.htm Make sure to check it out! So sorry that the last year of updates isn't on the site yet. I have them all on a different computer so have to move the files over and am trying to organize things into little mini sections so I can update more quickly. For now you can of course view all of the great updates from the past year on all of our Facebook accounts listed above!

7 May 2018 - For this mini update Vic now has 5,000 friends on his Facebook profile page! Thank you so much for the requests! VictorMatureRadio.tripod.com is all updated. Check it out!

12 April 2018 - Here is a mini update of the VMature.tripod.com part of the site! Check out all of the great pictures and articles!!

26 September 2017 - For this BIG Victor web update I've added all of the photos and information from the past YEAR. Yay so happy to have it all up! :-) I've added TWO NEW SECTIONS to the site. Part of the site used to be hosted on Tripod so I'm using two of those original accounts again because it's quicker to get the updates done that way. So check out these TWO TRIPOD ACCOUNTS that are part of VictorMature.net - VMature.tripod.com and VictorMatureRadio.tripod.com There are 13 pages on one and 6 on the other so check out all of the fantastic Victor pictures and info from the last year! (Sorry about the word "undefined" on the Tripod pages. That is some Tripod error and I'm hoping they fix it very soon!) IMPORTANT NOTE: Firefox browser and others are not allowing FLASH unless you specifically turn it on so make sure to HAVE FLASH ENABLED for the main page because there is a lot of flash on it. I've added the Twitter feed to the main page also so make sure and check it out! Also check out these pages on the regular website: ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE, TEN, ELEVEN for tons of amazing Victor photos and articles!

12 August 2017 - For this mini update here are 4 pages of new articles and pictures! - One Million B.C. On Blu-Ray, The Victor Mature Annual Turkey Shoot Golf Tournament, Victor's Golf Tee, and Vic In The Coast Guard Color Pictures.

12 June 2017 - Happy 100th Birthday to Victor's first cousin Julia Mature!!!! Check out all of the wonderful pictures from her party and the video clip! June 8th was Julia Mature Day in Louisville! https://www.facebook.com/groups/15391611879/permalink/10155407298426880/?pnref=story Two pages of great Vic photos have been added: ONE, TWO. I will be updating the site with the past 2 years of fantastic Vic pictures soon! Check out the coolest theatre playbill from when Vic was "Cain" in "Back To Methuselah" at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1938!

1 February 2017 - I've moved all of the Vic files to my new computer and uploaded half of the files from 2016. Make sure to check them all out! You can see the gorgeous full sized original pictures! They are here: ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE, TEN, ELEVEN, TWELVE, THIRTEEN, FOURTEEN, FIFTEEN, SIXTEEN, SEVENTEEN, EIGHTEEN

17 April 2016 - For this update I added 19 pages of photos and 8 pages of News. My computer ran out of room and I'm moving everything to a new computer so all of the pages are just white and not formatted like usual. So sorry! I wanted to get everything updated from this past year and uploaded before I moved the files to the new computer to make sure nothing gets lost. Make sure to check out all of the fantastic photos and news from the past year! There are several ones that I didn't put on Facebook so make sure to check them all out! Here are the photo pages: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S. Here are the news pages: A B C D E F G H. Thank you to the fans who posted pictures on Facebook and sent them in! Make sure to check out Specialist In Confusion and Inside Story Of Vic's Romance With Anne Shirley. Check out Dixie Carson's behind the scenes photos from the filming of Dangerous Mission!

28 December 2015 - Thank you to award winning artist Ed Seeman for sharing his wonderful portrait montage of Victor on our website! Check out his website for more of his amazing work and read about his fascinating career! www.edseeman.com -- Just a little update on the website: I will be re-writing the poster part of the site VictorMature.info in the new year. Right now if you go to VictorMature.info it forwards to VictorMature.org I had to move VictorMature.org to a different host for now because Tripod doesn't let you link directly to their files. VictorMature.org is up and working perfectly. I left a backup copy of that part of the site at: VictorMature.tripod.com Check out the fantastic picture of Victor from The Veils of Bagdad here! I will also be updating victormature.net with all of the wonderful photos and articles that have been posted on Victor's Facebook pages and groups over the past year! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

8 June 2015 - Check out the July 2014 to June 2015 update.

January 2015 - Some of the older information that I'm archiving I will be adding to this 2015 update page instead of the main index page so for the most current updates make sure to check out the main index page, the Facebook feed and the 2015 Update page to make sure you get to see everything!

I've added two pages. I archived Victor's 101st Birthday Celebration from 2014 here. Also the Film Society of Lincoln Center Announces 2015 Jewish Film Festival - Cry of the City is featured. Thanks so much to Victoria for the information!

Make sure to visit Judy Westbrook's fantastic site for Victor's China Doll co-star Li Lihua at: lilihua.net

7 September 2014 - For this update four pages of pictures have been added to the site. They are fantastic photos of Victor that have been posted on his Facebook page over the past nine months. Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4. Also a wonderful article from 1940 called The Man Hollywood Has Needed Arrives has been added to the site! Check out the amazing pictures and info! The most current updates will again be posted on the main page of the site. You can view all previous updates above from the past 16 years. You can check out the Facebook feed above also to check out the most current updates! The links that were posted from this past year will be updated soon as well as the screencaps from his 101st Birthday Party! Thank you for visiting! :-)

 

 

 

 


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A thank you goes to the following people for giving the fan club permission to use certain photos on this website: Lynn Redgrave, Todd Hughes of the American Film Institute and the Lizabeth Scott Compendium, Maria Ciaccia, and Libby Darnell.
This fan club does not wish to violate any copyright laws so if you see anything on this website that should not be here please e-mail the club and it will be removed immediately. Thank you. :) Please do not use any of the scanned images or information from this site on other websites or pages without prior permission. Many of the photos etc. on this site have been given for use ONLY on this site and the COPYRIGHT BELONGS TO THE ORIGINAL OWNERS. So it is very important that you DO NOT COPY PHOTOS or TEXT from this site without prior permission. Thank you! :) A special thank you goes to the family of Victor Mature. :)

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