- IMDb Mini Biography By: With Serling unable to reshoot parts in which Douglas looked especially drawn and haggard, the entire episode had to be refilmed (at Serling's own expense) with Jack Warden taking over the lead part. He started at the CBS radio station WCAU in Philly and relocated to the CBS headquarters in New York in 1934 where Douglas co-hosted its popular swing music program "The Saturday Night Swing Club" from 1936-39. I.S.Mowis, Other Works The relatively inexperienced actor wisely remained with the show through all 1,024 performances before leaving to seek out Hollywood roles. In 1951 she married actor, Perry Mason: The Case of the Provocative Protege, Perry Mason: The Case of the Polka Dot Pony, View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. -- PD, from a 1959 L.A. Mirror-News article, An actor who isn't working is nothing and you get to a point in pictures where you get fat mentally. The risk paid off when he found immediate award-winning success on the Broadway comedy stage.Later, despite being a raw new talent in Tinseltown, he had the audacity to turn down the Hollywood powers-that-be to revive his Broadway success to film because he felt they had "reduced" his role too much. "The Method" give me a great big pain. The film, which was about set to film, recast Fred MacMurray in the role. After appearing in a few stock and small theatre plays, he made his Broadway acting debut in November of 1936 as a radio announcer in the comedy satire "Double Dummy" at the John Golden Theatre, but it closed the next month and he returned to radio, eventually landing a cozy niche as an announcer and straight man opposite the likes of Jack Benny (he was Benny's first announcer), Fred Allen and the team of George Burns and Gracie Allen in their respective series. |  The new film star was immediately tapped to host the 22nd annual Academy Awards in March 1950.In a surprise move, Douglas had the nerve to rebuff a Hollywood offer to recreate his Harry Brock role when Born Yesterday (1950) was turned into a film, starring his Broadway co-star Judy Holliday. I'm a cinch for the make-up men too. One of the more notable occurred while he was touring the South in the play "The Caine Mutiny Court Marital" in 1955. By and large theatre actors are better than movie actors because they understand responsibility. An interest in acting sparked while he was a student at West Philadelphia High School. Margaret Field Douglas, Self: Screen Snapshots 5854: Young Hollywood She first appeared in "This Side Idolatry" in 1933 (with Leslie Howard). She had greater success on Broadway, where she starred in the screwball comedy "The Doughgirls" (1942) at the Lyceum Theatre, and the Moss Hart farce "Light Up the Sky" (1948), with Sam Levene, Barry Nelson and Glenn Anders. The studio camera man enjoys working with me. It doesn't call for much upstairs. It's a land of sow belly and segregation," the play's tour was canceled. - On marrying. Her spouses included actors Paul Douglas and Willard Parker. He later met actress Jan Sterling and married her on June 22, 1950. Field has a star at 1751 Vine Street, Los Angeles on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, dedicated February 8, 1960. She and Douglas had one daughter, Margaret Field Douglas (b. He went on to take entrance examinations at Yale but never attended the college. Guys look at me and say, 'If that mug can win a gal, It's a cinch for me.'. Official Sites. Columbia used their own manic human dynamo, Broderick Crawford, to take over the film role. She and Douglas had a daughter, Margaret Field Douglas (born 1945). But it wasn't enough. Although Virginia certainly had the talent to become a top film star, it is believed that her actions and candid opinions about others stars did her in. He also found a way to pay tribute to his former roots in sports starring in two worthy baseball comedy films, It Happens Every Spring (1949), and Angels in the Outfield (1951). Official Sites. See also. Her mother was a cousin of U.S. Confederate leader Robert E. Lee and her aunt was British stage actress and director, Her marriage to composer Howard Grode lasted only three months before they separated. You know why? In early 1942 he married fourth wife/actress Virginia Field. In 1947, she married Howard Grode, a composer and musician. Virginia also had an actress aunt, Auriol Lee, who paved the way for her debut on the stage. It's a challenge to sustain a play from 8:45 to 11:00, which you are never confronted with in pictures...You have to go away from Hollywood and play a lead before they'll re-believe you're a leading man...Every seven years you have to be rediscovered. Paul Douglas became an unlikely middle-aged cinema star by simply capitalizing on his big, burly, brash and boorish appeal to the nth degree. -- PD, on why he returned to Broadway in 1957, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour: Lucy Wants a Career, View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. You're trapped. It, in fact, would take an early and sudden death to end all this wildly successful risk-taking.The bombastic, blue-collar persona Douglas exhibited naturally on stage and screen was actually quite a contrast to his own family background. In between he continued to find work here and there as a radio announcer (for Ed Wynn)) and was the first host of NBC Radio's "Horn & Hardart Children's Hour".Divorced from non-actors Sussie Welles, Elizabeth Farnesworth and Geraldine Higgins, Douglas's final two marriages were to actresses, with each one producing a child. It's because he doesn't have to worry about my bad angle -- they'e all bad.

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