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Melvyn Douglas

Melvyn Douglas

Melvyn Douglas (born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg April 5, 1901 – August 4, 1981) what is 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 a film 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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Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo (2014)

Documentary providing a career overview of the great Greta Garbo. ...

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To (1990)

This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed commentary delivered on camera by Kathleen Turner. Turner walks us through Loy's career as a dancer and an act ...

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)

This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage. ...

The Hot Touch (1982)

A master art forger and his partner in crime, an art expert who can vouch for the authenticity of the forgeries, are making a bundle. An art dealer figures out their scheme but agrees to keep quiet if they forge some art lost in WWII. ...

Ghost Story (1981)

Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing. ...

Tell Me a Riddle (1980)

A long-married couple embark on one last cross-country journey when it is discovered that the wife is dying. Together they try to reconnect with their estranged daughter before it is too late. ...

The Changeling (1980)

After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his ...

Being There (1979)

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. ...

The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)

Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary deals, as well as further straining his already part-time family life. But it ...

The Making of a President (1978)

In wartime Sault Ste. Marie, the mayor invites the president of the Jewish congregation to speak at the town's upcoming ecumenical war bonds rally. However, the president has just quit and nobody wants the thankless job. A funny and endearing drama featuri ...

Intimate Strangers (1977)

The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband, and he begins to take it out on his wife. ...

Portrait of Grandpa Doc (1977)

Portrait of Grandpa Doc (1977)

The story of a gentle and loving grandfather who encourages his grandson's ambition to be a painter. ...

Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)

A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War betwe ...

A Gift To Last (1976)

A Gift To Last (1976)

A Christmas special about an elderly man looking back at life during the turn of the century in Ontario. ...

The Tenant (1976)

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia. ...

That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers. ...

Murder or Mercy (1974)

An attorney comes out of retirement to defend a prominent doctor, who has been accused of the mercy killing of his wife. ...

The Death Squad (1974)

When petty criminals start turning up murdered, a detective discovers they are being killed by a group of his fellow officers who think the criminals were treated too leniently by the courts. ...

The Going Up of David Lev (1973)

The Going Up of David Lev (1973)

A ten-year-old Israeli boy whose father died years earlier during the Six-Day-War is determined to find out more about his father's death. He skips school and, with the help of a friendly cab driver, heads to Jerusalem to find the men who fought with his f ...

The Candidate (1972)

Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment. ...

One Is a Lonely Number (1972)

A young woman has difficulty understanding why her husband walks out on her. Alone for the first time, she finds life difficult to cope with and for a time lives with the hope that her husband will come back to her. ...

Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system. ...

Death Takes a Holiday (1971)

Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman. ...

I Never Sang for My Father (1970)

A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California. ...

Hunters Are for Killing (1970)

A man comes home after serving time in prison to claim his share of his deceased mother's estate. However, his adoptive father, who holds him responsible for his biological son's death, intends to fight him for everything. ...

Garbo, by Joan Crawford (1969)

Joan Crawford narrates this documentary about the career of Greta Garbo. ...

Companions in Nightmare (1968)

One of the patients in a group-therapy session conducted by a famous psychiatrist is a murderer. ...

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (1967)

Peter Schermann is angry at the world after his children move him into a nursing home. Still physically and mentally strong, he searches for a meaning to his life in a new and uncompromising world. ...

The Crucible (1967)

Landmark TV adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Nominated for 3 Emmy awards. ...

Hotel (1967)

This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager wrestles with the round-the-clock drama of its guests. A brazen sneak thief, who nightly relieves the guests of their property, is chased t ...

Inherit the Wind (1965)

A young man, Bert Cates, is arrested in a small Bible Belt town for teaching the theory of Evolution in the public school. Two of the finest legal minds in the U.S. are called to the trial: Henry Drummond for the defense, and Matthew Harrison Brady for the ...

Once Upon a Tractor (1965)

Alan Bates and Diane Cilento play an odd couple fleeing across fictitious European countries with NYC and the UN as their destination. A short film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson. ...

Rapture (1965)

Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union. ...

The Americanization of Emily (1964)

American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless and dangerous D-Day mission concocted by a deranged admiral. ...

The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history. ...

Advance to the Rear (1964)

As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col. Claude Brackenbury, are reassigned away from the front lines. The hapless Heath and Brackenbury must now lead a ragtag grou ...

Hud (1963)

Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern ...

Billy Budd (1962)

Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried. ...

Old Man (1958)

In the South, convicts get a temporary release to help during a flood. ...

The Plot to Kill Stalin (1958)

In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with antisemitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first. ...

The Greer Case (1957)

When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue. ...

On the Loose (1951)

After years of living in her selfish parents' (Melvyn Douglas and Lynn Bari) egotistical shadows, desperate teenager Jill Bradley (Joan Evans) makes a last-ditch play for attention by attempting suicide. Jill's guilt-ridden father tries at last to help her ...

My Forbidden Past (1951)

An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune. ...

The Great Sinner (1949)

A young man succumbs to gambling fever. ...

A Woman's Secret (1949)

A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player, Luke Jordan, helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell, to temporarily replace M ...

My Own True Love (1948)

Following World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic experience as a G.I., during which he lost a leg and was imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp. ...

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems. ...

The Sea of Grass (1947)

On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals. ...

The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947)

A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war. ...

Three Hearts for Julia (1943)

When his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again. ...

They All Kissed the Bride (1942)

Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes who is writing a book on some of her tough ways. With no time for men, the effect an attractive stranger has on her at her siste ...

We Were Dancing (1942)

A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American socialites. ...

Two-Faced Woman (1941)

A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband. ...

Our Wife (1941)

A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success. ...

A Woman's Face (1941)

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman. ...

That Uncertain Feeling (1941)

A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband. ...

This Thing Called Love (1940)

Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible. ...

Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)

Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posi ...

He Stayed for Breakfast (1940)

Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment. ...

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie M ...

Too Many Husbands (1940)

Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband. ...

The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)

Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to dut ...

Ninotchka (1939)

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest. ...

Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1 (1939)

Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1 (1939)

The four Westmore brothers work their make-up magic on a variety of Hollywood stars. ...

Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)

Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the B ...

Tell No Tales (1939)

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication. ...

From the Ends of the Earth (1939)

An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at the time. Such as The Women, Thunder Afloat, Siren of the Tropics, Ninotchka, Northwest Passage, and At the ...

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 (1939)

Ice skating is the theme; at the Tropical Ice Garden, in Westwood Hills, are seen a flock of skating stars including Irene Dare and Phyllis Ann Thomoson, as well as Hollywood luminaries such as Franklyn Pangborn, Norma Shearer, Rita Hayworth, Mickey Rooney ...

There's That Woman Again (1938)

Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when Bill's prying wife wants to help catch the crook. ...

The Shining Hour (1938)

A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it. ...

That Certain Age (1938)

Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send him off to China. However, first Fullerton invites Bullit to the peace and quiet of his own home to write a ...

Fast Company (1938)

Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller. ...

The Toy Wife (1938)

A Southern belle finds herself torn between two suitors. ...

There's Always a Woman (1938)

An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks ...

Arsène Lupin Returns (1938)

A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious je ...

I'll Take Romance (1937)

Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showeri ...

Angel (1937)

While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man. ...

Captains Courageous (1937)

Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealt ...

I Met Him in Paris (1937)

Kay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into a junket to Switzerland, but George (with no illusions about his friend) appoints himself chaperone. Throu ...

Women of Glamour (1937)

A girl with a reputation falls for a wealthy playboy. ...

Theodora Goes Wild (1936)

The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, pe ...

The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)

It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're ...

And So They Were Married (1936)

A bitter widow and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm. Although both have no intention of getting married again, they begin to fall for each other. Their children, however, are determined to se ...

The Lone Wolf Returns (1935)

Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact that Michael Lanyard also known as the Lone Wolf once retired from the "trade" but relapses back into his old habits when he is tempted by the emerald pendant of beautiful so ...

Annie Oakley (1935)

Awkward Annie loves her sharpshooting rival in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. ...

Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)

A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster. ...

She Married Her Boss (1935)

A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work. ...

The People's Enemy (1935)

Money was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by fair means or (mostly) foul. But once he became rich what he craved for was respectability. So why not marry a lovely society lady? And with a young daughte ...

Dangerous Corner (1934)

Friends uncover a dark secret when they compare notes about a theft and suicide. ...

Woman in the Dark (1934)

A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is disrupted when a mysterious woman arrives. ...

Counsellor at Law (1933)

A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past. ...

Nagana (1933)

A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly. ...

The Vampire Bat (1933)

A German village is stricken by a series of murders that appear to be the work of vampires. ...

The Old Dark House (1932)

In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion. ...

As You Desire Me (1932)

Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno, claiming that her memory wa ...

The Broken Wing (1932)

In a little Mexican village by the American border. However powerful big shot Captain Innocencio (a misnomer indeed!)is, he proves unable to charm Lolita, the shapely daughter of his neighbor, a big-time rancher. Lolita expects better than this awkward unp ...

The Wiser Sex (1932)

A young woman goes undercover to gather evidence to free her boyfriend, an attorney who has been framed for a murder he didn't commit. ...

Prestige (1932)

A woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic. ...

Tonight or Never (1931)

A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer. ...

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