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Melvyn Douglas (born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg, April 5, 1901 – August 4, 1981) was an American actor. Douglas came to prominence in 1929 as a suave leading man, perhaps best typified by his performance in the romantic comedy Ninotchka (1939) with Greta Garbo.
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Two-time Oscar-winner Melvyn Douglas was one of America's finest actors, and would enjoy cinema immortality if for no other reason than his being the man who made Greta Garbo laugh in Ernst Lubitsch's classic comedy Ninotchka (1939), but he was much, much more.
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Melvyn Douglas. Actor: Being There. Two-time Oscar-winner Melvyn Douglas was one of America's finest actors, and would enjoy cinema immortality if for no other reason than his being the man who made Greta Garbo laugh in Ernst Lubitsch's classic comedy Ninotchka (1939), but he was much, much more.
- April 5, 1901
- August 4, 1981
Aug 5, 1981 · Melvyn Douglas, a debonair performer in scores of popular movie romantic comedies of the 1930's and 40's, who later became a forceful character actor and winner of two Academy Awards, died...
Apr 5, 2013 · A biography of Melvyn Douglas, two-time Academy Award winning actor, enhanced by several Douglas quotes from the 1960s and '70s. Also, Douglas in Golden Age Hollywood.
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.
Aug 5, 1981 · Melvyn Douglas, the consummate actor whose finely etched features graced motion picture screens during the Golden Age of Hollywood, died Tuesday in New York. He was 80. Douglas, who acted...