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Word: melvyn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moustaches are the latest vogue for Harvard men, according to that arbiter of Cambridge fashions, the Boston Post. In an article entitled "Harvard Turns to Whiskers" published yesterday, the Post discloses that" . . . blond youth at Harvard is going in for the Melvyn Douglas trim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOSTON NEWSPAPERS EXALT HARVARD UPPER LIP FOLIAGE | 9/29/1938 | See Source »

...Motion Picture Democratic Committee (Dashiell Hammett, Paul Muni, Miriam Hopkins, Fredric March, Melvyn Douglas, Donald Ogden Stewart et al.) telegraphed to Republican Governor Frank Merriam: "FOUR YEARS AGO WE . . . HAD TO CONTRIBUTE A DAY'S PAY TO YOUR CAMPAIGN FUND TO SAVE CALIFORNIA

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ears Back | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Loew's State and Orpeheum is still showing "Toy Wife," with Louise Rainer, Melvyn Douglas and Robert Young. Essentially modern actors, they have difficulty in this revival of the Victorian Frou Frou," and the result is not happy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Reviews-- | 6/22/1938 | See Source »

...market-cannot completely change it. Produced with MGM's customarily scrupulous attention to visual detail, the picture relates with considerable pictorial beauty the lachrymose story of Gilberte Brigard, nicknamed "Frou Frou." Pretty, light-headed little Frou Frou makes the mistake of marrying a serious young lawyer, George Sartoris (Melvyn Douglas), with whom her sister (Barbara O'Neil) is in love. When, dissatisfied with the way she runs his household, he calls in the sister to assist her, Frou Frou is so broken-hearted that she runs away. Naturally, she does not run away alone; naturally, her escort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 20, 1938 | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

There's Always a Woman (Joan Blondell, Melvyn Douglas; TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

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