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Melvyn Douglas: Hollywood Blvd
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After a brief return to Broadway in 1933, Douglas returned to films in 1935, signing a joint contract with Columbia and MGM. Most often appearing in sophisticated comedies, Douglas was one of the busiest stars in Hollywood, playing in as many as eight films per year. One of the actor's better roles was a supporting one: as Cary Grant's beleaguered lawyer and business adviser in Mr.
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George Schaefer, a successful Hollywood, television, and theater producer, speaks of his collaborations with Melvyn Douglas. The two worked together on three productions, one of which led to Douglas' winning of an Emmy award. Schaefer discusses Douglas' comedic and dramatic acting talent, his intellectual nature, his character and personality, and the health problems that later efffected his ability to work.
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La última aparición de Douglas sería en The Hot Touch (1982). Douglas moriría a causa del SIDA el 4 de agosto de 1981, siendo uno de los primeros famosos que morirían a causa de esta enferemdad. Douglas tiene dos estrellas en el Paseo de la Fama de Hollywood, una en el 6423 Hollywood Blvd. y la segunda por su trabajo en la televisión en el 6601 de Hollywood Blvd.
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Hollywood Offbeat was a1952-53 crime drama starring Melvyn Douglas as a relatively hard-boiled and occasionally idiosyncractic Hollywood gumshoe named STEVE RANDALL. Steve was a disgraced former attorney who took on the usual TV private eye gigs, such as blackmail and murder, while working towards clearing his name and searching for the person responsible for his disbarment.
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The more rabid anti-communists in Washington went after Douglas himself, suggesting that because he was Jewish and had changed his name for professional reasons, he was automatically politically suspect. Douglas began recovering his career with a 1950s detective program, Hollywood Off-Beat - ironically playing a disbarred lawyer trying to regain his reputation.
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Youth, looks, charm and talent made Douglas a star in Hollywood's heyday. He gossips about mak-ing movies: Garbo's laughter in ''Ninotchka'' was dubbed; Charlie Chaplin stole the plot of ''The Great Dictator'' from the writer Konrad Bercovici; Cary Grant was gutless about politics.
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