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August 17, 1981MILESTONES
DIED, Melvyn Douglas, 80, veteran stage and film actor and
two-time Oscar winner for his supporting roles in Hud (1963) and
Being There (1979); of pneumonia; in New York City. The son of
Russian-born Concert Pianist Edouard Hesselberg, Douglas made
his Broadway debut in 1928. In 1931 he married Actress Helen
Gahagan, who later became a noted political activist and
Congresswoman from California. After establishing himself as
a suave, romantic leading man during the 1930s and 1940s by
playing opposite such stars as Greta Garbo (Ninotchka), Gloria
Swanson (Tonight or Never) and Joan Crawford (A Woman's Face),
Douglas shifted to first-rate character portrayals in such films
as Billy Budd (1962), The Americanization of Emily (1964) and
I Never Sang for My Father (1970). Douglas, who had just
completed his 77th film, Ghost Story, which is scheduled for
release in December, recently declared: "Much of what we did
in the old days was junk. I don't share the intense nostalgia
for those films that some people do."