UPDATE 24 October 2000: Since the last update a new section has been added to the fan club. It is Fred Carson - Actor, Vic's Stunt Double and Friend. Dixie has written a fabulous article all about her father's fascinating career! There are also five galleries of great photos from Fred Carson's career! A very big thank you goes to Dixie Carson and to Fred Carson for everything! :) :) Updates is current. Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for OCTOBER that is up now (November will be up soon)! :)

UPDATE 29 September 2000: Since the last update great information has been added to the Retrospective Film Exhibition & Cinema Review section! (I got to meet Mickey Rooney, Jan Chamberlin Rooney and Sam Kriger! :)Vintage Victor 2 has been updated with 4 new articles and photos. The Poll question has been changed. My Darling Clementine won the last poll and is now featured in Mature Theater along with Million Dollar Mermaid. Thank you to Anne for all of her work in sending the audio and pictures! The Links section has been updated with a new link to Judy's great Li Lihua site! The Charm section has been updated along with the Awards. Updates is also current. Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for OCTOBER that is up now! :)

UPDATE 2 September 2000: Since the last update wonderful information and a great new picture have been added from the opening day of the fabulous Retrospective Film Exhibition & Cinema Review! Thank you so very much to Luisa Masè for all of the wonderful photographs and for everything! :) Vintage Victor 2 has been updated with Vic, Golf, and Genius & Life Should Be A Ball. Thank you so much to Don Conroy for the article! The Poll question will remain up until the next update so you can choose which movie will appear next in Mature Theater! Updates is also current. Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for SEPTEMBER that is up now! :)

UPDATE 14 August 2000: Since the last update wonderful information and pictures have been added from the opening day of the fabulous Retrospective Film Exhibition & Cinema Review! Thank you so very much to Luisa Masè for all of the wonderful photographs and for everything! :) Definitely make sure that you attend this spectacular exhibition! :) Galleries 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, and 46 have been added to the New Gallery. Thank you so much to Judy Westbrook and to Tim Lodewijk for all of the great pictures. A new Poll question has been added and you can now choose which movie will appear next in Mature Theater. The In Memory section has also been added. Updates is also current. Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for AUGUST that is up now! :)

UPDATE 18 July 2000: Since the last update exciting information has been added about the Retrospective Film Exhibition & Cinema Review. The sweetest photo of Victor and his mother, Clara, has been added to Gallery 37 in the New Gallery. A new section for Frequently Asked Questions has been added also. I'm happy to announce that there is a great new movie in Mature Theater -- Chief Crazy Horse. Thanks to Anne Z. for all of her hard work sending all of the audio and photos! Special thanks to Don Conroy for the great article, How To Be Mature, in Vintage Victor 2. I am reorganizing a few things so will put up a new poll question very soon in addition to many exciting new features! I'll also be adding many more great photos and articles from Tim Lodewijk and Don Conroy soon. Updates is also current. Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for AUGUST that is up now! :)

UPDATE 29 June 2000: For this update Galleries 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36 have been added to the New Gallery. Thank you so much to Tim Lodewijk for all of the great photos! I'll also be adding many more great photos from Tim Lodewijk and Don Conroy during the next updates. I'm happy to announce that there is a great new movie in Mature Theater -- The Long Haul. Thanks to Anne Z. for all of her hard work sending all of the audio and photos! Three new links have been added in the Links section. Thanks so much to Judy Westbrook and Anne Z. for the links! Please remember to e-mail Biography and AMC and request more Victor! Information about the great Retrospective Film Exhibition & Cinema Review has also been added. I will put up a new poll question for the next update so please continue to vote in the current poll until then. :) Updates is also current. Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for JULY that is up now! :)

UPDATE 3 June 2000: For this update the wonderful interview that Victor did with Aljean Harmetz has been added to Vintage Victor 2. :) Thank you so much to Aljean Harmetz for her kind permission to reprint her interview! She said that she had a great deal of fun interviewing him and that Victor was a smart and witty man. Galleries 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27 have been added to the New Gallery. Thank you so much to Don Conroy, Terry Hebert and Anne for all of the great photos! I'll also be adding many more great photos and articles from Mr. Conroy during the next updates. Thank you so much to Kurt Meyer for all of the great new autographs in the Autographs section! I'm happy to announce that there are three great new movies in Mature Theater including My Gal Sal, Samson & Delilah and Demetrius & the Gladiators. Thanks to Victor's "adoring fan" for all of her hard work sending all of the audio and photos! The new Poll questions are up so please cast your votes! A new link has been added in the Merchandise section to BlackStar, the UK's Biggest Video & DVD store with free world-wide postage. I thought that would be helpful for overseas visitors. Updates is also current. Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for JUNE that is up now! :)

UPDATE 12 May 2000: For this update great photos have been added to Galleries 18, 19, and 20 in the New Gallery section. Special thanks goes to Mr. Don Conroy for all of the wonderful pictures! In the future I will be adding many more pictures and articles that Mr. Conroy has generously given to the fan club. On the index page you will also find information on how you can buy the beautiful charms from the charm bracelet Victor gave to Joy. :) If you'd like to still vote in the current poll please do. They are having server problems so as soon as they get them fixed I will put up the new poll question. Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for MAY that is up now! :)

UPDATE 13 April 2000: For this update I'm happy to "premiere" the new section "Mature Theater". This section contains pictures and audio from Victor's great movies. Special thanks to one of Victor's "adoring fans" for all of the photos and audio! Vintage Victor 2 has also been updated with wonderful photos of Victor's car. Special thanks to Mike for letting me use them! :) The message boards have details on how you can purchase this beautiful car. The Update is current and Gallery 17 has been added to the New Gallery section. Special thanks to T. J. Bjorensen for the great photos! Also thanks to Victor's "adoring fan" for this information: American Movie Classics has a new page where you can e-mail them your comments, suggestions, requests etc. Just click here and request a lot more Victor. :) Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for MAY that is up now! :)

UPDATE 31 March 2000: For this mini-update 2 new articles have been added to Vintage Victor 2 including one about Victor making a movie with Sophia Loren and also one with the photo that began his career with Hal Roach. The Update section is also up-to-date. A great new section will be added very soon. I had hoped to "premiere" it during this update, but it isn't totally done yet so I will put it up as soon as it's finished. Please check back often! I hope that everyone will enjoy looking around the update. :) Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for APRIL that is up now! :)

UPDATE 10 March 2000: For this update 4 new articles have been added to Vintage Victor 2 including three really sweet ones from the 1980s about how happy Victor was (with great photos :) Also the Alyce Canfield article has been added. Special thanks to Mr. Wehner for finding the articles! The Update section, Awards section and Autographs section have been updated. Special thanks to Kelly for sharing her great note from Victor! A new Poll section has also been added. I hope that everyone will enjoy looking around the update. :) Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for MARCH that is up now! :)

UPDATE 18 February 2000: For this update Gallery 16 has been added to the New Gallery section. Also a new article about Vic and Betty Grable has been added to Vintage Victor Part 2. Special thanks to Claudia and to Anne Autry for the wonderful photos! The Update section and Awards section (2 new awards! :) have been updated. I'm very happy to announce that there will be a retrospective exhibition and cinema review held in Italy during July and August 2000 as a tribute to Victor. Information regarding this can be found in the new section called "Exhibition and Cinema Review". Special thanks to Mr. Benedetti for the wonderful photos! I'm also happy to announce that the fan club is now a registered member of the National Association of Fan Clubs. :) I've typed about half of that cute article by Alyce Canfield so I will add that to the Vintage Victor 2 section as soon as I get it finished so please check back often! (Sorry for the delay in getting it online.) Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for FEBRUARY that is up now! :)

UPDATE 29 January 2000: Remember Victor today on what would have been his 87th birthday. Sit and watch your favorite Victor movie with family and friends. :) For this update I've added Galleries 11-15 in the New Gallery section. Special thanks to Doug Sederberg, Terry Hebert and to everyone who contributed the wonderful photos! Vintage Victor 2 has been updated with 5 new articles with photos including Vic's final movie before going off to war, Vic and Betty Grable, Vic on the town, Vic at the Tales of Manhattan Premiere, and Various Vic Pics. The Update section and Awards have also been updated. There are also three new sections--Autographs, Merchandise and an Additional Message Board. I just received a wonderful article which is one of my favorite stories ever written about Vic. It was written by his friend reporter Alyce Canfield and is really sweet. I will be adding that soon! :) Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for FEBRUARY that is up now! :)

UPDATE 6 January 2000: For this update I've added the New Gallery with Galleries 8, 9 and 10. Thank you so much to Terry Hebert for all of the wonderful photos! There is also a new section called Vintage Victor Part 2. There are 4 new articles with photos including Victor at the Pasadena Playhouse, the famous color study of Victor from Traxel-Johnson, Various Victor photos and captions from the 40s and 50s and Everyone Agrees That Victor Mature Is A Swell Guy from 1941. I have many wonderful interviews with Victor also that I will be adding soon to the new section. The Awards section has also been updated because Mature's Matinee was chosen as one of Asia E!Online's Choice Websites. :) I'm almost out of room on my America Online accounts for the web so I've added the new sections on Tripod. You will notice a few pop-up ads. If you just "minimize" the ad you shouldn't have to look at any more of them during the time you are surfing around the new sections on tripod. :) Now I will be able to expand the website a lot more in the future. :) Also the fan club needs articles and photos of Victor from 1960 through the 1990s because most of the articles/photos that I've found are from earlier in his career. If anyone has any please e-mail me because I'd be glad to purchase them or pay for copies for the fan club. Thank you! :) Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for JANUARY that is up now! :)

UPDATE 9 December 1999: For this update I've added a link to the fabulous Micky Dolenz website in the Vic Related Links section. Thank you so much to Mr. Dolenz, Jane Blunkell and Dolenz Productions for permission to use the wonderful Micky Dolenz image and logo. :) I have also added great photos of Victor's Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame to the Vintage Victor section. Thank you to my cousin Melanie for taking the photos for me when she was in Hollywood. I have also added room for the new galleries so will be setting those up soon. :) 29 January 2000 would have been Victor's 87th birthday. Please remember to write to American Movie Classics at info@amctv.com and request that they do a birthday tribute for Victor on that day. Thank you. :) I hope that everyone has a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a wonderful New Year! Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for DECEMBER that is up now! :)

UPDATE 23 November 1999: For this update I've added two articles with photos to Vintage Victor--"More of Talented Vic" and "Handsome and Talented Victor at age 77." The Vic Related Links section has been updated with a link to Charlie Chaplin's site. I read an article where Victor had said how much it meant to him when Mr. Chaplin had written him a lovely letter encouraging him early in his career. A very special thank you goes to the Association Chaplin for permission to use the photo. The links section has also been updated and I will be adding hundreds of new links soon. Also there is a website I'm sure you'll be interested in. It's Robert's Hard To Find Videos. They have many of Victor's videos that are impossible to find and are sold collector to collector. He said that some of the rarer titles don't come with full color packaging and may come from 16mm films or in rare cases could have been from foreign sources so may be a little bit fuzzy. (He said that only a few of over 60,000 titles fit into that category.) It looks like a great place to find Victor's movies that are normally unavailable on video. Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for DECEMBER that is up now! :)

UPDATE 6 November 1999: I have to organize a few things on the web before I add the new galleries so for this update I instead added two new articles to Vintage Victor. The first is Victor on the Truth Or Consequences radio show from 1950. There are 4 really cute photos with that also. The second one is about Victor wanting straight drama roles and the article also included many of his hunk pictures. I know that a lot of Victor's fans also love golf and I thought that this was a really fun idea and something that Victor might have liked. :) It's the 1999 Jack Nicklaus Online Golf Championship. Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for NOVEMBER that is up now. You can find it through the links section of this web.

UPDATE 20 October 1999: For this update I've added one new article to Vintage Victor. It's called "Victor Mature's Great Appeal To All Women" and there are three wonderful photos with it. I've also fixed a few links on the web and updated the About Me section a little. For the next update I will be adding tons of new photos sent in by Terry Hebert and Doug Sederberg. Thank you so much to everyone who has sent in such great photos and articles. :) Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for OCTOBER that is up now. You can find it through the links section of this web.

UPDATE 7 October 1999: For this update I've added one new article to Vintage Victor. It is all about Victor's work with Tars and Spars and there is also a wonderful picture. I also have added the UPDATE section to the main part of the web. There is tons of information in this section regarding articles I've put up before and new links etc. so check that out to make sure you haven't missed anything. :) Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for OCTOBER that is up now. You can find it through the links section of this web. Thank you again to Victor's fans, co-workers and friends of his family for your sweet messages. Thank you to Victor for all of the joy that you brought into our lives.

MINI-UPDATE 25 September 1999: I've added one new article to Vintage Victor. It's called Always Sweet Vic and shows him giving ice cream to the children who worked with him on his movie, visiting fans, out with best pal Jim Backus, cooking, and with his friend Bill Evans (Vic made over his garage into a home for Bill and his wife when they had no place to live.) I'll be adding hundreds of new articles in the future months. Please remember to check out TV-NOW's Victor Mature schedule for OCTOBER which can be found through the links section. For the next update I will be adding wonderful photos and information about Victor's work with Tars and Spars.

MINI-UPDATE 17 September 1999: I've added one new article, an obituary from Louisville, with one of my favorite photos of Victor (actually all of his photos are my favorites :) :) Thank you so much to Mrs. Minstein (whose father knew Victor when they both were children in Louisville and whose Great-grandmother was a close friend of Victor's mother Clara) for the idea. :) Also in one obituary I read that Donations are suggested to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. You can also make donations on their website in memory of Victor here. Also their address is: Memorial and Honor Program, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105. There is a donation form which can be printed from the website. One other thing I was going to mention is that many of you had written sharing your wonderful stories about getting autographs from Victor. He was always so gracious and generous with his time and always signed autographs for his fans. I'd love to start an Autographs section on the web so if any of you would like to share pictures of your autographs I'd love to put them up on the website so everyone can see them. You can send them to me as .jpg or .gif files and I will add them. Thank you.

UPDATE 2 September 1999: I would like to thank everyone who has sent in such nice e-mails and the heartfelt condolence messages for Mr. Mature's family. Thank you so much to the wonderful people who have written to me who had worked with Victor, had known him and his family or had met him. It's been so wonderful hearing all of your stories. Thank you so much for sharing them. A special thank you also goes to Aljean Harmetz and to Maria Ciaccia for their kindness and help. My thoughts and prayers are with the entire Mature family during this incredibly sad time. I, of course, will continue to run the web as a tribute to Mr. Mature, who I think was the kindest, funniest, most intelligent and the most wonderful man ever. In the future months I will be adding hundreds of new links. I will also be adding dozens of new photos to the Gallery (thank you to Terry Hebert and Doug Sederberg for all of the great new photos they've sent). I'll also be adding hundreds of new articles and photos to Vintage Victor plus much more to every section of the web. For this update I've added two more articles that were written when he passed away, A He-Man With A Sense Of Humor and the obituary that appeared in many of the newspapers. I've also added one advertisement that he did during the 1950s. The very touching article about handsome Victor and his beautiful wife Lorey can still be accessed through this paragraph. Also the photo of Victor from 1988 playing golf in Palm Springs is here with the obituary I had up before. All of these articles have also been added to the Vintage Victor section. To access Yahoo's coverage of Victor passing away use this link. Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for SEPTEMBER that is up now. You can find it through the links section. Click here for previous updates. Again, thank you to everyone and thank you to Victor for all of the joy you brought into our lives. We were all blessed to have known you... We miss you more than words can ever say... :-(

MINI-UPDATE 21 August 1999: I'm doing a mini-update to answer some of the questions that I have been receiving. Thank you so much to everyone for your kind e-mails during this very sad time. Please continue to send in your condolence messages. I will continue to collect them. I have added a very touching article about Victor and his lovely wife Lorey. Also many of you have written wanting to see current photos of Victor. I unfortunately don't have too many current photos but I just purchased and put up one of him playing golf from 1988. Also I have added one obituary to the site. To access Yahoo's coverage of Victor passing away use this link. I will add all of these articles to Vintage Victor later but for now you can access them by clicking on the links in this paragraph. Again, thank you to all of Victor's wonderful fans for everything.

UPDATE 29 July 1999: For this update I've added two new articles to the Vintage Victor section. The first is "Various Movie Scenes and More". The second one is "Don't Call Me Glamour Boy" from 1941. It's one of my favorite articles and is full of great information and Victor's always wonderful sense of humor. Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for AUGUST that is up now. You can find it through the links section. Click here for previous updates.

UPDATE 14 July 1999: Since the last update I've added 2 new articles to Vintage Victor--Behind The Scenes Of The Shanghai Gesture and also Victor At Work And At Play--including one of him outside one of his stores. I've just purchased 40 new photos/articles about him so will also be adding those soon. :) Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for JULY that is up now. You can find it through the links section. Click here for previous updates.

UPDATE 25 June 1999: Since the last update I've added 1 new article (with 15 pictures) to Vintage Victor called Milestones In The Movie Life Of Victor Mature. As you can see I've also changed the index page a little and added two new great photos of Victor to it. I'll be adding tons of new pictures and articles in the future months including one of my favorite articles about Victor and Anne Shirley and also one about Vic and June Haver. :) Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for JUNE that is up now (the JULY schedule should be up in a few days). You can find it through the links section. Click here for previous updates.

UPDATE 30 May 1999: Since the last update I've added 3 new articles to Vintage Victor including two about Vic and Rita (with one of my favorite pictures of them) and one about Victor and Dorothy (with wonderful photos of them at different nightspots). I'll be adding tons of new pictures and articles in the future months including one of my favorite articles about Victor and Anne Shirley. :) Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for JUNE that is up now. You can find it through the links section. Click here for previous updates.

UPDATE 10 May 1999: Since the last update I've added 1 new article with seven new pictures to Vintage Victor--including one of Victor in Lady In The Dark. I've also changed the index page a little and added one of my favorite photos to it. I've also redone the About Me section a bit and started the Victor Mature mailing list. I'll be adding tons of new pictures and articles in the future months. :) Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for MAY that is up now. You can find it through the links section. Click here for previous updates.

UPDATE 21 April 1999: Since the last update I've added 2 new articles with pictures to Vintage Victor--an article on Victor and Rita--plus one of my favorite articles called "You've Got A Right Guy Wrong!". Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for MAY that is up now. You can find it through the links section. Click here for previous updates.

UPDATE 2 April 1999: Since the last update I've added 2 new articles with pictures to Vintage Victor--Victor and former girlfriend Yvonne plus the entire chapter on Victor from the book The Swashbucklers. (I divided it up into 17 sections--with 36 photos--and they are all listed on the main Swashbucklers page.) A very special thanks to author James Robert Parish for his kind permission to reprint it and also to Sally Corey for getting me the permission to reprint it. I've answered my mail through the 24th of March so if you have e-mailed me and haven't received a reply please write again because I may not have received it (AOL was having some mail problems). Thank you! :) Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for APRIL that is up now. You can find it through the links section. Click here for previous updates.

UPDATE 13 March 1999: Since the last update I've added 2 new articles with pictures to Vintage Victor--Victor Back From The War and Summer Fun With The Vic Matures. Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for MARCH that is up now. You can find it through the links section. Click here for previous updates.

UPDATE 26 February 1999: Since the last update I've added 4 new articles with pictures to Vintage Victor. I've updated the Links section and added a new award to the Awards section. Thank you so much to everyone who voted for this website at Starpages! I've also added great photos to Gallery 7. Thanks to Anne from the web Rita Hayworth: A Classic Beauty for the great pictures. Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for MARCH that is up now. You can find it through the links section. Click here for previous updates.

UPDATE 12 February 1999: For this update I've added many new great photos and articles to Vintage Victor. I've also fixed the index page so it loads faster. I have answered all of my e-mail that I received through 10 February. AOL was having some mail problems so if you've e-mailed me and didn't receive a reply please write again because I may not have received your e-mail. Thank you. :). Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for FEBRUARY that is up now. You can find it through the links section. Click here for previous updates.

UPDATE 31 January 1999: For this update I've added four new articles with pictures to Vintage Victor. I've also added two great pictures donated by Libby Darnell. Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for FEBRUARY that is up now. You can find it through the links section. Click here for previous updates. IMPORTANT NOTE: Many people have written to me asking if One Million B.C. is available on video and unfortunately it currently isn't. But luckily TV NOW's schedule is up for February and the movie will be showing on Friday, February 5 at 3 p.m. Eastern time on the SciFi Channel. I hope that everyone is able to see it. :)

UPDATE 20 January 1999: For this update I've added two new articles with pictures to Vintage Victor. I've also fixed the gallery a bit and moved some files around so things will load faster. If there are any problems please let me know so I can fix them right away. Thank you. :) I've just acquired a collection of over 220 Victor pictures and articles from the 1940s and 1950 from all of the pictures he was in plus great candid photos with his wives and family. I'll be adding them all in the coming months. Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for JANUARY that is up now. You can find it through the links section. Click here for previous updates.

UPDATE 5 January 1999: My internet service provider was down for a week but thankfully I'm finally back online. :) I'm very sorry for my delay in replying to e-mails. I've added 2 new articles with pictures to Vintage Victor. Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for JANUARY that is up now. You can find it through the links section. Click here for previous updates.

UPDATE 23 December 1998: I've added 1 new article with pictures to Vintage Victor. They are all behind the scenes photos from Dangerous Mission. In the future I will be adding many pictures from Samson and Delilah, information about Rita Hayworth and Victor, stories and photos from when he was filming Safari and much more. Please remember to check out TV NOW's Victor Mature Schedule for DECEMBER that is up now. You can find it through the links section. I hope that everyone has a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a wonderful Holiday Season!