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Apr 5, 2020 · Melvyn Douglas circa 1940. Arriving in this world on this date in 1901, Melvyn Von Hesselberg was born to an immigrant Jewish father from Latvia and Lena Shackelford, a southern belle, the daughter of Col. George Taliaferro Shackelford.
Apr 5, 2013 · Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg was born April 5, 1901 in Macon, Georgia. His father was a Russian-Jewish immigrant and his mother a Protestant from Kentucky whose American lineage traced back to the Mayflower. When Broadway called it was decided that Melvyn Douglas, Douglas being his maternal grandmother's name, fit the marquee better than Hesselberg.
Too Many Husbands - Movie Poster. Here is the American one-sheet movie poster for Columbia's Too Many Husbands (1940), starring Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, and Melvyn Douglas. One-sheets measured 27x41 inches, and were the poster style most commonly used in theaters. 5 Photos.
Aug 3, 2007 · Melvyn Douglas was an Oscar, Emmy, and Tony award–winning actor, whose film career began during the rush for “talkie” performers in the early 1930s. Born in Georgia, Douglas first experienced the spotlight when his parents entered him in baby shows throughout the state.
Melvyn Douglas. Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg, better known as Melvyn Douglas, was an American actor. Douglas was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of Lena Priscilla, a Protestant Tennessee-born Mayflower descendant, and Edouard Gregory Hesselberg, a Jewish concert pianist and composer from Riga, Latvia. Though his father taught music at a succession ...
Melvyn Douglas Facts His father was a Jewish emigrant but Melvyn was unaware of his Jewish background until later in his youth and it was his paternal aunts who told him “the truth”. Alongside Paul Newman , Patricia Neal, and Brandon deWilde, Melvyn Douglas co-starred as a Texas rancher named Homer Bannon in the 1963 Western film Hud .
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Young, Mona Barrie, Lee Bowman. B&W. 86 mins. 11:45 PM THIRD FINGER LEFT HAND (1940). A man-shy fashion editor pretends to be married until a suitor claims to be her husband. Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: Myrna Loy.
