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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.
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. Melvyn Douglas was born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg on April 5, 1901, in Macon, Georgia. His father, Edouard Gregory Hesselberg, a noted concert pianist...
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 .
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.
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.
Melvyn Douglas 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 ...
Melvyn Douglas. Highest Rated: 100% Tell Me A Riddle (1980) Lowest Rated: 14% The Sea of Grass (1947) Birthday: Apr 5, 1901. Birthplace: Macon, Georgia, USA. Broadway star, in Hollywood from 1931 ...
