Paul Douglas
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Yale graduate Paul Douglas played professional football with the Philadelphia Yellow Jackets before turning to regional theatre. He parlayed his love of athletics into a prosperous career as a sports announcer in the 1930s; in the next decade he... more
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This Could Be the Night (1957)
Cast: Robert Wise Joan Blondell Paul Douglas Jean Simmons Anthony Franciosa
Tags: Comedy
Length: 105min
A rare comedy effort by director Robert Wise, This Could Be the Night is based on a series of short stories Cordelia Baird Gross. Jean Simmons stars as Anne Leeds, a prim, proper and very level-headed grade-school teacher who takes a night job as...
Cast: Debbie Reynolds Paul Douglas George Marshall Tony Randall Una Merkel
Length: 96min
George Marshall directed this breezy romantic comedy starring Tony Randall and Debbie Reynolds. Randall plays Lorenzo Charlton, a stuffy tax investigator sent to the farm of Pop Larkin (Paul Douglas) and Ma Larkin (Una Merkel) to find out why they...
Cast: Paul Douglas Cesar Romero Henry Bumstead John Derek Ernest Truex
Tags: Drama Religious Drama
Length: 86min
The Leather Saint is an uneasy blend of religious drama and prizefight picture. John Derek stars as Father Gil Allen, an Episcopalian minister who relaxes on weekends by indulging in a few rounds of boxing. Allen hopes to use the prize money to...
Cast: John Gilling Paul Douglas Albert R. Broccoli Ted Moore Walter Rilia
Tags: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Length: 83min
Filmed in England, The Gamma People is a strange blend of "Prisoner of Zenda" type adventure, comic opera, cold war paranoia and science fiction. The film is set in Gudavia, a mythical European country ruled by scientists. These misguided...
Cast: Bob Hope Jimmy Durante Paul Douglas Melville Shavelson Wally Westmore
Length: 105min
New York City is known for choosing colorful characters for its mayors. One its most illustrious was the wisecracking, dancing and singing Mayor James J. Walker (as played by Bob Hope in a rare, serious role) who helmed the Big Apple in the 1920s....
Cast: Ken Hughes Paul Douglas William Shakespeare Ruth Roman Bonar Colleano
Tags: Gangster Film Crime Drama Crime
Length: 90min
It took nerve to transpose Shakespeare's -Macbeth into a 1930s gangster story using "tough guy" jargon, but Joe Macbeth very nearly pulls the trick off successfully. Paul Douglas plays Joe MacBeth, a successful mobster whose wife (Ruth Roman) has...
Cast: Grace Kelly Paul Douglas Murvyn Vye Andrew Marton Stewart Granger
Tags: Romantic Adventure Adventure Drama Romance
Length: 100min
Set in the coffee fields of Colombia, Green Fires stars Stewart Granger and Grace Kelly. Granger plays emerald prospector Rian X. Mitchell, who intends to explore an old deserted mine despite the protests of his partner Vic Leonard Paul Douglas and...
The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
Cast: Judy Holliday Paul Douglas George Burns Arthur O'Connell Richard Quine
Length: 99min
The Solid Gold Cadillac was adapted from the George S. Kaufman-Howard Teichmann Broadway hit of the same. Both the play and film were predicated upon the notion of a humble ten-share stockholder triumphing over a corrupt big-business board of...
Cast: Ginger Rogers William Holden Paul Douglas James Gleason Jesse White
Tags: Comedy Showbiz Comedy
Length: 93min
Sir James Barrie's whimsical play -Rosalind was updated and urbanized as the 1953 film Forever Female. Ginger Rogers plays a veteran Broadway star who has optioned a play written by William Holden. Though on the less sunny side of 40, Rogers expects...
Cast: Paul Douglas Alexander MacKendrick John Addison Russell Waters Andrew Keir
Tags: Comedy
Length: 92min
Originally released as High and Dry, The Maggie was one of the most endearing of the "regional" British comedies of the 1950s. Hollywood's Paul Douglas plays an American businessman whose brash, glad-handing techniques earn nothing but cold stares in...
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