Word: hesselberg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Melvyn Douglas, 80, veteran stage and film actor and a two-tune 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...