What I want to talk about here is Melvin Douglas. Garbo has a line to evaluate this man in the play: There is no man like you in our country. We don’t expect it here either. Looking at the movie played by this handsome mustache, you can't help but ask him if he is a penguin? Otherwise, why always wear a formal dress and go in and out of places in the upper class. A tall, handsome, elegant, and personable gentleman, of course only Paris has it. How could there be such a person in the Soviet Union-the bourgeoisie! This kind of person has irresistible charm to women. In "Angels" directed by Liu Bieqian, Marlene Dietrich praised him and said: You have gray eyes, brown hair, and a charming smile. The pianist's son, who loves acting, became a professional actor at the age of 18 and became the leading actor in the superstar Gloria Swanson's "The Spring Festival Evening" when he first appeared on the screen. In 1932, Greta Garbo starred in "As You Wish" Melvin Douglas first worked with Garbo as the leading actor. As an actor, he lacks the domineering and energetic of James Jacques, who is struggling for a position in the lower class. The bosses of Warner Corporation and Warner male stars share this strength. As a gentleman-type romantic actor, Melvin Douglas is only in water at MGM. He worked with MGM’s first lady Nauma Sheila, movie queen Mauna Roy, superstar Joan Crawford, and the most prestigious actresses of the 1930s, Irene Deng and Claude Colber , Lolita Yang, Qien Arthur, Roselin Russell, Diana Dou Ping, Mel Obrand, Joan Brandel and so on have cooperated. This handsome mustache has participated in two world wars, served as a sanitary soldier in World War I and a major in the army during World War II. When the Pacific War broke out in 1942, he left the film world for the time being and went to Washington, where he served as the director of the Art Committee of the Civil Defense Agency. In "Angels", Melvin Douglas plays a passionate official, and there is a play about piano, which is very charming. It's not surprising that such a life experience and experience have such a temperament.
However, time is to kill a pig. At the end of the war, as he grew older, the 45-year-old Douglas was no longer the ideal actor in a romantic literary film. The 1949 "Small Bird's Nest" is also an old-fashioned love story of two men and one woman. In the film, Melvin is much older than the other actor, Gary Grant, even though he is actually only 4 years older than Gary. It is strange that after the great success of "Philadelphia Story", Katherine Hepburn has been working at MGM, but Melvin Douglas has never worked with Hepburn? Later, I turned over the photo and found a working photo of the two chatting. It was a work photo of "Spring on Long Shang" co-starred by Hepburn and his lover Qu Sai. At this time, Maowen could only play the second male number.
In the 1950s, Melvin returned to acting on Broadway to rebuild his reputation, where he had great success in his years. In 1960, his performance of "Best Person" won the Tony Award for Best Actor, the highest award in the theater industry. In 1963, he and Paul Newman co-acted in "The Wilderness Iron Man". He played a pair of father and son. The brother of the bourgeoisie disappeared. The father in the film has experienced the vicissitudes of life and experienced the hardships of life. The performance is really vivid and he won the 36th Oscar for men. Supporting role award. From 1967 to 1968, Melvin Douglas won an Emmy for the TV series "Spend Your Night", and in 1979, he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor again for the comedy "There". In this film, he played a capitalist, this is his youth The most frequently performed class.
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