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...

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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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HAPPY 14 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTOR MATURE FAN CLUB ON SEPTEMBER 5, 2012!!!
 

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.

 

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NEWEST UPDATE: 11 April 2013 - For this update I've added 7 new pages of photos and articles: Victor Pictures From March 2013, Rita Ann's Pictures From The Fundraising Events For Victor's Hometown Heroes Mural, More Great Photos From Rita Ann, Victor's Church Photo And More From Rita Ann, January/February 2013 Photos From The Site, Photo Of Victor's Mural In Louisville and Dedication Day Of Victor's Mural. Here are 4 great pages about Victor's Hometown Heroes Mural: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20130116/ZONE07/301160030/Shelby-Park-raising-funds-Victor-Mature-mural?nclick_check=, http://www.ket.org/cgi-bin/cheetah/watch_video.pl?nola=KLOUL+000712, (Please copy and paste the URL into your browser - for some reason it won't link directly), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1H5xFe5go4&feature=youtu.be, and http://www.ket.org/cgi-local/fw_louisvillelife.exe/db/ket/dmps/Programs?id=LOUL0712. Make sure to follow Victor's twitter account! 19 January 2013 - For this update I've added great photos from 2012 and 2013, September 2012 photos (a few of these photos repeat because of the way I have the files set up - sorry about that), Victor in the Netherlands - thanks to Eduard! - and a great photo from Susan Carmody of Victor from World War II. Celebrate Victor's 100th birthday on January 29, 2013! Happy Birthday Victor!!! Here is a fun article about the Victor Mature Turkey Shootout Golf Tournament from 2011! Shelby Park showcases Victor Mature article - about the fantastic Hometown Heroes Program and Victor's upcoming mural with many wonderful photos! Attend the fantastic fundraising events for Victor's Hometown Heroes mural! There is still time to get your tickets or to donate!!! 5 September 2012 - For this update I added 5 pages of all of the gorgeous Victor photos that have been posted on Vic's Facebook page recently. Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4 and Page 5. 10 May 2012 - For this update I added three pages of approximately 90 great photos of Victor at: Page One, Page Two, and Page Three. I also added all of the photos I posted on Facebook when I post his movie schedule there (73 of them). Just right click to see the full sized image. Here are many fantastic photos of Victor from The Last Frontier! Here is Victor in Captain Caution, Victor in the Coast Guard and a wonderful photo of Victor here also. Victor and Rita photos here. Victor in his Genius Jacket here. Buy the book about Lady In The Dark with great info and photos on Vic. Preorder the new Victor book through Amazon here and through Barnes and Noble here. Order Jim and Henny Backus' books that have fantastic stories about Victor! They are my absolute favorite Vic stories! You can buy these three here: Forgive Us Our Digressions, ... Only When I Laugh, and Rocks on The Roof. You can also find them through other used book sites. Buy a Victor book from Germany here. Watch a great video clip of Victor with Marilyn Monroe meeting The Queen. (You must be a member of the Victor Mature Fan Club Facebook Group to view it.) Make sure to visit the fantastic Official Carole Landis Site! 23 January 2012 - I've added 5 fantastic pictures of an amazing painted low relief sculpture of Victor from Violent Saturday that was created by artist Rick Washington! 2 September 2011 - For the updates for 2011 these articles have been added: Great candid photos of Victor during World War II thanks to Lee Brilliant, Victor and Tessie O'Shea, Victor and Rita Hayworth pictures, Great photos of Victor in the Coast Guard from original negatives, Victor photos from The Robe, Pictures of Victor and Carole Landis thanks to CaroleLandisOnline.com, Victor and Rudy Vallee photo, Photos of Victor with Carole Landis and Gene Tierney, Candid photo of Vic with a camera, Victor talks about acting styles and more, Gerri Shepherd's photos of Victor's grave, Victor and Mapy Cortez gorgeous magazine cover, Victor's great recipe, Rare Victor pictures, Victor and Eunice Kinzer article continued, and much more! To find some of Victor's rare movies visit LovingTheClassics.com Check out this book to read great stories about Victor during the filming of One Million B.C. Make sure to visit Victor's YouTube Channel where I will be adding many more great videos very soon! Victor's upcoming movie schedule can now be found at TVGuide. You can customize the search to your viewing area.


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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