Paul Douglas
Nacimiento : 1907-04-11, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Muerte : 1959-09-11
Historia
Paul Douglas (April 11, 1907 – September 11, 1959) was an American actor.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as Paul Douglas Fleischer, Douglas began his career as a stage actor. He made his Broadway debut in 1936 as the Radio Announcer in Doty Hobart and Tom McKnight's Double Dummy at the John Golden Theatre. In 1946 he won both a Theatre World Award and a Clarence Derwent Award for his portrayal of Herry Brock in Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday.
Douglas began appearing in films in 1949. He may be best-remembered for two baseball comedy movies, Angels in the Outfield (1951) and It Happens Every Spring (1949). He also played Richard Widmark's police partner in the thriller Panic in the Streets, frustrated newlywed Porter Hollingsway in A Letter to Three Wives, Sgt. Kowalski in The Big Lift, businessman Josiah Walter Dudley in Executive Suite and a con man turned monk in When in Rome. In 1950, Douglas was host of the 22nd annual Academy Awards. Douglas also worked on radio as the announcer for The Ed Wynn Show and he was the first host of NBC Radio's "Horn & Hardart Children's Hour!". In April 1959 Douglas appeared as Lucy Ricardo's television morning show boss in the "Lucy Wants a Career" episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.
Douglas was originally cast in the 1960 episode of The Twilight Zone called "The Mighty Casey", a role written for him by Rod Serling, based on his character in Angels in the Outfield, but Douglas died the same week after production of the episode had been completed. His role was taken over by Jack Warden, and most of the episode was refilmed several months later.
He was married five times, last to actress Jan Sterling from 1950 until his death. They had a son, Adams Douglas (1955–2003).
Paul Douglas died on September 11, 1959 of a heart attack in Hollywood, California at the age of 52. Film director Billy Wilder and co-writer I.A.L. ('Izzy') Diamond had just offered him the role of Jeff Sheldrake in the movie The Apartment that went to Fred MacMurray instead. Wilder later said: "I saw him and his wife, Jan Sterling, at a restaurant, and I realized he was perfect, and I asked him right there in the parking lot. About two days before we were to start, he had a heart attack and died. Iz and I were shattered."
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Pop Larkin
Un inspector de Hacienda, que visita una granja para exigir el pago de los impuestos pendientes, no podía imaginarse que el dueño tuviera una hija tan atractiva.
Professore Golfiero Paganica
A poor girl is convinced she is the daughter of a prince.
Chris Nolan
Recreación cinematográfica de la vida de James J. Walker (Bob Hope), que a finales de los años 20 se convierte en el controvertido alcalde de Nueva York, conocido por sus chistes y bromas y por la imparable corrupción durante su mandato. Además provocó un gran escándalo por su relación con Betty Compton (Vera Miles).
Rocco
To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.
Mike Wilson
Un reportero descubre un doctor que expone a unos chicos a los rayos gamma, con la suposición que esto los convertirá en seres con una inteligencia superior. Lamentablemente los sujetos de experimentación se convierten en zombies asesinos.
Edward L. McKeever
Una artista sin trabajo consigue un empleo en una importante compañía de negocios, pero pronto descubre que la corrupción afecta a los principales ejecutivos de la empresa.
Gus MacAuliffe
Episcopalian minister Gil Allen keeps up his college days interest in boxing by working out at a gym run by his friend, Tom Kelley but declines offers to fight in an actual staged bout, until he realizes he could use the prize money to purchase equipment for local polio victims. Keeping his real identity secret and hoping to step away after one big payday, Gil signs a contract to fight for greedy promoter Gus MacAuliffe.
Joe MacBeth
A gangster's wife drives him to kill as she pushes him to the top.
Vic Leonard
Rian Mitchell (Stewart Granger) es un aventurero que ha decidido buscar esmeraldas en un país de Sudamérica, Colombia. En un monte cercano a un río encuentra una veta muy prometedora, por lo que organiza la extracción de las piedras preciosas. Al fondo del valle se encuentra la hacienda de Catherine (Grace Kelly), en la que se cultiva café. Mitchell y Catherine hacen buenas migas, pero cuando comienza a llover sin cesar y el río crece, la plantación de Catherine está en serio peligro. La única solución sería dinamitar el monte, para cambiar el curso de las aguas. Pero Mitchell no quiere perder sus minas de esmeraldas, ahora que está cerca de conseguir las piedras preciosas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Josiah Walter Dudley
Cuando el presidente de una importante empresa de muebles muere de repente, se desencadena una lucha implacable por la sucesión. La lucha por el poder llevará a los candidatos a utilizar todos los medios a su alcance, sin excluir los golpes bajos.
Calvin B. Marshall, the American
Maggie es un carguero cuyo viejo capitán se empeña en mantener a flote, a pesar de que se encuentra en un estado ruinoso. (FILMAFFINITY)
Commentator
Because of his luxurious fur coat, a hammy actor becomes involved with crooks. His coat resembles the one that a gang's fence wears, and he is continually finding stolen jewelry in his coat pockets. When the gang learns that he is planning to turn the loot over to Scotland Yard, they go gunning for him and wound him while he is on stage performing 'Falstaff.' And, although wounded, he continues with his performance, trouper that he is that believes the show must go on, while the police are apprehending the gunmen.
Harry Phillips
Él (William Holden) es un autor teatral de gran fama, y ella (Ginger Rogers) una veterana estrella de la interpretación, que se encuentra en el momento culminante de su carrera, pero que tiene que hacer frente a la competencia de las jovencitas. Una de ellas, Sally (Pat Crowley), trata por todos los medios de ganarse la simpatía del escritor.
Andrew McBain
Jo, una joven dama divorciada de la buena sociedad, decide alistarse en el ejército para estar más cerca de su novio, un coronel. No cuenta con que su ex marido ha sido fichado como consultor de defensa, y que va a hacer todo lo que esté en su mano para sabotear el romance de Jo
Hector Woodruff
El juez de paz Melvin Bush casa a varias parejas antes de que su ingreso en la magistratura sea oficial. Años después, esos matrimonios se enteran de que sus bodas no son válidas.
Jerry D'Amato
Mae Doyle (Barbara Stanwyck) vuelve a su pueblo natal, una pequeña población pesquera de Monterrey (California). Allí se hace amiga de una joven (Marilyn Monroe) que trabaja en la fábrica de conservas. También conoce a un amable pescador (Paul Douglas) con el que se casa, aunque poco a poco se sentirá atraída por otro hombre del pueblo (Robert Ryan).
Joe Brewster
An American fugitive flees to Rome and tries to elude capture by masquerading as a priest.
Aloysius X. 'Guffy' McGovern
Una joven reportera culpa de la racha perdedora de los Piratas de Pittsburgh al entrenador. Mientras ella intenta aprender más sobre él para su columna, él comienza a escuchar la voz de un ángel prometiéndole ayuda para el equipo si va a enmendar sus caminos. Mientras lo hace, una niña huérfana que es fanática de los Piratas y ha estado orando por el equipo comienza a notar ángeles en el campo de juego. Efectivamente, los Piratas comienzan a ganar, y McGovern intenta cambiar su vida. ¿Pero puede mantener la calma lo suficiente como para que los Piratas ganen el banderín de la Liga Nacional?
Man on Park Bench (uncredited)
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiancée Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.
Harry Joplin
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Police Ofcr. Charlie Dunnigan
Un joven se dispone a saltar desde la cornisa de un hotel. La policía, su familia, la gente, los medios de comunicación se temen lo peor durante una espera de catorce horas interminables y llenas de tensión.
A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing scenes with the actors and camera crew, shooting the scenes, watching dailies, working with the editor and composer, and attending the first preview. Then a number of real directors are shown in archive footage (as well as a predominance of staged 'archive' footage) working with actors and crew.
Capt. Tom Warren
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E.L. 'Big Ed' Hanley
The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee.
MSgt. Henry "Hank" Kowalski
Guerra Fría, la Crisis de Berlín. En 1948, la Unión Soviética decretó el bloqueo de los sectores occidentales de Berlín. Los rusos cortaron las comunicaciones por carretera de modo que las zonas ocupadas por los aliados se quedaron sin alimentos ni provisiones. Los Estados Unidos respondieron al bloqueo estableciendo un "puente aéreo" que hizo posible el abastecimiento de la ciudad durante un año. En esa operación participaron dos oficiales de las fuerzas aéreas americanas: los sargentos Hank Kowalski y Danny McCullough.
Self
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Leonard Borland aka Logan Bennett
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Monk Lanigan
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Porter Hollingsway
Tres mujeres reciben una carta de una amiga llamada Addey Ross en la que les dice que se ha fugado con uno de sus maridos. A partir de aquí veremos las dudas y los temores de las tres esposas sobre sus respectivos matrimonios, en una narración articulada en flashbacks en los que vemos diversas escenas de sus matrimonios.
Policeman at Front Desk (uncredited)
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Master of Ceremonies
Leith Stevens leads his orchestra in a nice assortment of standards in a variety of musical styles, including Dixieland and swing. Mr. Stevens was a popular orchestra leader of the era who later became a musical director for an assortment of television shows and his facility with more than one style of music, so important for his later career, is much in evidence here.
