Melvyn Douglas
Birthday: 1901-04-05
Place of Birth: Macon, Georgia, USA
Biography: Melvyn Douglas (born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg; April 5, 1901 – August 4, 1981) was an American actor. Douglas came to prominence in the 1930s as a suave leading man, perhaps best typified by his performance in the 1939 romantic comedy Ninotchka with Greta Garbo. Douglas later played mature and fatherly characters, as in his Academy Award–winning performances in Hud (1963) and Being There (1979) and his Academy Award–nominated performance in I Never Sang for My Father (1970). In the last few years of his life Douglas appeared in films with supernatural stories involving ghosts. Douglas appeared as "Senator Joseph Carmichael" in The Changeling in 1980 and Ghost Story in 1981 in his final completed film role.
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Ninotchka
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who repres...
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Being There
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old ...
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Billy Budd
Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-a...
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The Candidate
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is w...
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The Tenant
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit...
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The Old Dark House
In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansi...
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Ghost Story
Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old sec...
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Hud
Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents ...
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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the countr...
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A Woman's Face
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possi...
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The Changeling
After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build...
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The Americanization of Emily
American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless an...
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The Vampire Bat
A German village is stricken by a series of murders that appear to be the work of vampires....
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That Uncertain Feeling
A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband....
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They All Kissed the Bride
Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her si...
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Annie Oakley
Awkward Annie loves her sharpshooting rival in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show....
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That Certain Age
Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, new...
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The Guilt of Janet Ames
A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life du...
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Angel
While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man....
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Captains Courageous
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transat...
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The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointmen...
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Third Finger, Left Hand
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleague...
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She Married Her Boss
A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that...
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Theodora Goes Wild
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little...
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Counsellor at Law
A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past....
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Rapture
Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives ...
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A Woman's Secret
A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at...
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I Never Sang for My Father
Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his g...
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One Is a Lonely Number
A young woman has difficulty understanding why her husband walks out on her. Alone for the first tim...
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The People's Enemy
Money was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by ...
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo n...
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My Own True Love
Following World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic experience a...
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Two-Faced Woman
A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband....
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The Sea of Grass
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by t...
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Tonight or Never
A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, unti...
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Tell No Tales
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save ...
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My Forbidden Past
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune....
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Too Many Husbands
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for ju...
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to t...
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Mary Burns, Fugitive
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangs...
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As You Desire Me
Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist ...
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The Gorgeous Hussy
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know h...
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Good Girls Go to Paris
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor ...
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The Shining Hour
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it....
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Arsène Lupin Returns
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle i...
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I Met Him in Paris
Kay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new sui...
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He Stayed for Breakfast
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker ...
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Advance to the Rear
As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his ap...
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There's Always a Woman
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, ...
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secret...
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Prestige
A woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic....
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I'll Take Romance
Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace M...
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Dangerous Corner
Friends uncover a dark secret when they compare notes about a theft and suicide....
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Fast Company
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller....
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And So They Were Married
A bitter widow and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outsid...
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On the Loose
After years of living in her selfish parents' (Melvyn Douglas and Lynn Bari) egotistical shadows, de...
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Tell Me a Riddle
A long-married couple embark on one last cross-country journey when it is discovered that the wife i...
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Woman in the Dark
A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in a...
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We Were Dancing
A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becom...
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This Thing Called Love
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months...
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Death Takes a Holiday
Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling...
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Hunters Are for Killing
A man comes home after serving time in prison to claim his share of his deceased mother's estate. Ho...
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The Making of a President
In wartime Sault Ste. Marie, the mayor invites the president of the Jewish congregation to speak at ...
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Three Hearts for Julia
When his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again....
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The Lone Wolf Returns
Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact that Michael Lanya...
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Murder or Mercy
An attorney comes out of retirement to defend a prominent doctor, who has been accused of the mercy ...
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The Hot Touch
A master art forger and his partner in crime, an art expert who can vouch for the authenticity of th...
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Intimate Strangers
The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband,...
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Hotel
This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious y...
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There's That Woman Again
Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry ...
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The Going Up of David Lev
A ten-year-old Israeli boy whose father died years earlier during the Six-Day-War is determined to f...
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The Plot to Kill Stalin
In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, ...
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The Greer Case
When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue....
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Peter Schermann is angry at the world after his children move him into a nursing home. Still physica...
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Portrait of Grandpa Doc
The story of a gentle and loving grandfather who encourages his grandson's ambition to be a painter....
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Companions in Nightmare
One of the patients in a group-therapy session conducted by a famous psychiatrist is a murderer....
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Inherit the Wind
A young man, Bert Cates, is arrested in a small Bible Belt town for teaching the theory of Evolution...
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The Wiser Sex
A young woman goes undercover to gather evidence to free her boyfriend, an attorney who has been fra...
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Once Upon a Tractor
Alan Bates and Diane Cilento play an odd couple fleeing across fictitious European countries with NY...
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The Broken Wing
In a little Mexican village by the American border. However powerful big shot Captain Innocencio (a ...
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The Death Squad
When petty criminals start turning up murdered, a detective discovers they are being killed by a gro...
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The Crucible
Landmark TV adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Nominated for 3 Emmy awards....
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirl...
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time includi...
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From the Ends of the Earth
An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Fe...
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Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a ha...
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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insig...
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Nagana
A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly....
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history....
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Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
The four Westmore brothers work their make-up magic on a variety of Hollywood stars....
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Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Ice skating is the theme; at the Tropical Ice Garden, in Westwood Hills, are seen a flock of skating...
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Judgment at Nuremberg
Judgment at Nuremberg is an American television play broadcast live on April 16, 1959, as part of th...
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Garbo, by Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford narrates this documentary about the career of Greta Garbo....
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Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
Documentary providing a career overview of the great Greta Garbo....
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