Melvyn Douglas
Popularity:0.522
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1901-04-05
Place of Birth:Macon, Georgia, USA
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Also Known As:Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

The Old Dark House (1932)
In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

The Vampire Bat (1933)
A German village is stricken by a series of murders that appear to be the work of vampires.

That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.

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...

Annie Oakley (1935)
Awkward Annie loves her sharpshooting rival in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Counsellor at Law (1933)
A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.

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...

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...

I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Our Wife (1941)
A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.

Two-Faced Woman (1941)
A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.

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.

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.

Tell No Tales (1939)
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

My Forbidden Past (1951)
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.

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.

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...

Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.

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...

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...

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...

The Shining Hour (1938)
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.

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...

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...

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...

The Great Sinner (1949)
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.

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...

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...

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...

Prestige (1931)
A woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic.

Dangerous Corner (1934)
Friends uncover a dark secret when they compare notes about a theft and suicide.

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,...

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.

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...

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...

Tell Me a Riddle (1980)
Touching story of elderly couple David and Eva who go on one last journey across the USA when they discover Eva is dying, ending up with their...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1961)
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...

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...

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...

Three Hearts for Julia (1943)
When his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again.

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...

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 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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Old Man (1958)
In the South, convicts get a temporary release to help during a flood.

The Greer Case (1957)
When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.

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...

Portrait of Grandpa Doc (1977)
The story of a gentle and loving grandfather who encourages his grandson's ambition to be a painter.

Women of Glamour (1937)
A girl with a reputation falls for a wealthy playboy.

Companions in Nightmare (1968)
One of the patients in a group-therapy session conducted by a famous psychiatrist is a murderer.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

The Crucible (1967)
Landmark TV adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Nominated for 3 Emmy awards.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Nagana (1933)
A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.

The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1 (1939)
The four Westmore brothers work their make-up magic on a variety of Hollywood stars.

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...

Judgment at Nuremberg (1959)
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Studio One (1948)
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General Electric Theater (1953)
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Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
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Weekend Special (1977)
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The Fugitive (1963)
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes,...

Lux Video Theatre (1950)
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Your Show of Shows (1950)
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Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963)
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The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)
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Ben Casey (1961)
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CBS Playhouse (1966)
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Lights Out (1949)
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Ghost Story (1972)
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Kraft Mystery Theatre (1961)
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Hollywood Off Beat (1952)
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The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
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Playhouse 90 (1956)
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The Lives of Benjamin Franklin (1974)
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Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
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The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)
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The Dick Cavett Show (1968)
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.

What's My Line? (1950)
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or...

Your Show of Shows (1950)
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What's My Line? (1950)
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or...