Word: melvyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Garbo is cast as an Amazonish skiing instructor at a fashionable Idaho mountain resort. She meets, loves, marries one Melvyn Douglas, publisher of a Manhattan magazine called Tides and Currents. Half poet, half Napoleon, he leaves her in the snow to rush East on pressing publication matters. When he fails to return, Garbo goes after him, inadvertently poses as her own imaginary sister (a fascinating international trollop) and seduces her husband with ease. Everything ends slaphappily back in snowbound Idaho...
...Faced, Woman Garbo, after marrying Melvyn Douglas, poses as her own twin sister and tries to seduce him in order to test his love. The plot has been used many times before and just as suggestive films have gone by without such strong protest. One guess why Two-Faced Woman has been singled out for condemnation: next week Catholics will be asked to take their annual pledge "to abstain from witnessing indecent motion pictures and promise to do everything possible to strengthen public opinion against the showing of immoral films." Right now a rousing condemnation of a sure...
...Wife," an eternal triangle comedy, has Melvyn Douglas as the goal of both Ruth Hussey and Ellen Drew. Not quite reaching the heights of "Third Finger Left Hand," the show offers a clever plot and scintillating dialogue. It makes an unusually good double bill in these days of sorry second features...
Hollywood studios spare no lacquer in slicking up new, glamorizable names for their young hopefuls (e.g., Margarita Cansino to Rita Hayworth, Melvyn Hesselberg to Melvyn Douglas, Frances Gumm to Judy Garland). Recently Cinecolumnist John Chapman reported a Hollywood moniker to end all Hollywood monikers...
...Woman's Face (Joan Crawford, Conrad Veidt, Melvyn Douglas; TIME...