From the 1950s: The Big Knife

1955 Drama
From United Artists
Directed by Robert Aldrich

Starring
Jack Palance
Ida Lupino
Wendell Corey
Rod Steiger
Shelley Winters
Jean Hagen
Everett Sloane
Wesley Addy
Ilka Chase
Paul Langton
Nick Dennis
Bill Walker

From the 1950s: Bell, Book and Candle

1958 Romantic Comedy
From Columbia Pictures
Directed by Richard Quine

Starring
James Stewart
Kim Novak
Jack Lemmon
Ernie Kovacs
Elsa Lanchester
Hermione Gingold
Janice Rule
Bek Nelson
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Pyewacket

Melvyn Douglas

So invested was he in Democratic politics that he could have been a congressman (like his wife) or a governor.  Although he elected to stick with being an actor, it was a decided second place to his love for the political arena.   He made his first movie in 1931 and his last in 1981.  Melvyn Douglas' career can be divided into two parts, the early and middle years as a debonair leading man and then after a decade-long hiatus, the older years as a character actor who was richly and justly awarded with golden prizes.