Word: melvyn
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...between the two giants, when the quiet, gallus-snapping Darrow, acting for the defense, calls prosecutor Bryan to the witness chair and exposes his Bible-belting oratory as so much hot air. A most exciting scene, this, and much of the excitement is due to the fine performance of Melvyn Douglas as Darrow. One scarcely realizes just how well Douglas acts until he sheds the shuffling, angular manner of the lawyer and comes onstage for his curtain call, transformed and years younger than he has seemed throughout the play. James Westerfield, while not always as convincing as Douglas, still aquits...
...Blandings, Carey Grant spends most of his time looking dire, and he is an old hand at it. Few actors, probably, have gotten as many laughs out of standing in front of a mirror and trying to shave. Myrna Loy, as his wife, Muriel Blandings, and Melvyn Douglas, the old lawyer friend, are also old hands. Under such sure guidance, the movie grinds itself out at the Blandings bathroom mirror or in front of the Blandings building site...
...Chicago's Blackstone Theater one evening last week, Adlai Stevenson appeared backstage to congratulate Actor Melvyn Douglas on his portrayal of the late Clarence Darrow in the "monkey trial" play, Inherit the Wind. Critic Stevenson had only one complaint about Douglas' performance. Chided he: "You didn't have to look straight at me when you delivered that line about William Jennings Bryan." The line: "I wonder how it feels to almost be President three times, with a skullful of undelivered inaugural speeches...
...short story by Adman David Levy. It was a plunge deep into the Madison Avenue jungle, where admen fight for accounts, TV comedians fight for prestige and the small fry of television fight for their very existence. Keenan Wynn was the comic whose ratings have begun to slip and Melvyn Douglas the account executive who had risen to a vice-presidency on the comic's back and now decides it is time to get off. The flaw in the play was that none of the characters were virtuous enough to be morally sympathetic or villainous enough to be theatrically...
...pack into 60 minutes the entire story of a businessman in government, from his hopeful arrival, through his first miscues, to his humiliation before a Senate investigating committee. Author David Davidson struck boldly through the tangled swamp known as Conflict of Interest, but not even yeoman work by Melvyn Douglas and Ed Begley could make the main issues clear. Climax! starred Michael Rennie in Man of Taste, a melodrama about an art dealer who had a method for improving the price on his artists' paintings-he simply killed them off after they had done enough canvases to give...