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	Melvyn Douglas
		As Douglas grew older, he took on the older-man and father roles, in such movies as The Americanization of Emily[?], Hud, The Candidate[?] and I Never Sang for My Father, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
		Douglas was married for fifty years to actress-turned-politician Helen Gahagan[?] Douglas.
		Nixon accused Gahagan of being a Communist because of her opposition to the House Un-American Activities Committee.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/me/Melvyn_Douglas.html (318 words)

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		Helen Gahagan was a Broadway star who married her leading man Melvyn Douglas- and for the next forty-nine years lived happily ever after.
		Helen Gahagan became an overnight sensation on Broadway at the age of 22 and with Helen Hayes and Katharine Cornell became one of the leading lights of New York stage in the 1920's.
		Away from Hollywood, disengaged from opera and disenchanted with film, Helen Gahagan might have retired from the public stage to be a wife and mother but she could not settle for that.
	www.geoghegan.org /clan/helengahagandouglas (2205 words)

	Melvyn Douglas Summary
		Douglas said that he didn't become politically active until "just before Roosevelt's reelection in 1936." His wife was a singer as well as an actress and he'd accompanied her on a tour that took her to Germany.
		Douglas was born in Macon, Georgia to Eduard Kurljandsky Graoidanin, a Jewish concert pianist from Riga, Latvia, and Lena Priscilla Shackelford, a Scottish American.
		Douglas had a long theatre, film and television career as a lead player, stretching from his 1930 Broadway role opposite his future wife, Helen Gahagan, in Tonight or Never until just before his death.
	www.bookrags.com /Melvyn_Douglas (1312 words)

	Biographical Sketch of Helen Gahagan Douglas
		Born on November 25, 1900, in Boonton, New Jersey, Helen Gahagan was a natural performer.
		A tireless public speaker and activist, Douglas lobbied for liberal causes until her death on June 28, 1980, in New York.
		Douglas, as an delegate to the United Nations, meeting with war orphans, 1946.
	www.ou.edu /special/albertctr/archives/exhibit/hgdbio.htm (592 words)

	Biography for Melvyn Douglas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1950 Helen Gahagan Douglas ran as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate and was opposed by the Republican nominee, a small-time Red-baiting Congressman from Whittier named Richard Nixon.
		Douglas was much luckier in his next trip to the post: he won a Tony for his Broadway lead role in the 1960 play "The Best Man" by Gore Vidal.
		Douglas' wife, Helen Gahagan Douglas would later serve as U.S. Representative (Democrat-California) and be defeated in her 1950 bid for the U.S. Senate by Republican Congressman Richard Nixon, who dubbed her the "pink lady" for her leftist leanings.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0002048/bio (1521 words)

	Barnard College Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Helen Gahagan was born on November 25, 1900 in Boonton, New Jersey, where her family was living temporarily while her father, Walter Gahagan, a successful construction engineer, supervised the building of a reservoir.
		Helen’s paternal great-great-grandfather, William Gahagan, was of Irish descent and one of the founders of Dayton, Ohio.
		Douglas was seventy-eight, frail, and in pain due to her long-time battle with breast cancer (she had had a mastectomy in 1972) which had by then spread to her left lung and hipbone.
	www.barnard.columbia.edu /archives/persons.html (14766 words)

	Helen Gahagan Douglas Collection
		Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900-1980) began her professional career on the Broadway stage and was deemed a "star" at age twenty-two.
		A tireless New Deal Democrat, Douglas was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and served as an alternate delegate to the General Assembly of the United Nations.
		Though Douglas never entered the political fray again, she remained a tireless public speaker and activist.
	www.ou.edu /special/albertctr/archives/douglas.htm (566 words)

	Illeana Douglas - Biography - Moviefone
		Saucer-eyed actress Illeana Douglas has been regularly appearing in major films since 1987, when she debuted in the Shelley Long comedy Hello Again.
		The granddaughter of actor Melvyn Douglas and actress-turned-Congresswoman Helen Gahagan, Douglas was born July 25, 1965, in Massachusetts.
		Although Douglas was again praised for her work -- here portraying a Carole King-like singer/songwriter -- the film did poorly among critics and at the box office.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/illeana-douglas/19863/biography (296 words)

	From the screen to the political stage - Los Angeles Times
		Since Helen Gahagan Douglas traded the footlights for the hustings, a steady stream of Hollywood stars has sought public office.
		Douglas ran for Congress as a New Deal Democrat and was elected in a district that covered much of Los Angeles.
		In the age of Helen Gahagan Douglas, it was quite a distance from Hollywood to Washington.
	www.latimes.com /news/local/history/la-et-125celebritypols3dec03,0,2175659.story (558 words)

	Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady
		Nixon knew that his campaign against Helen Douglas would be well managed and well financed, and the most grueling period was already past: his travels up and down this cruelly distended state in a yellow wood-paneled station wagon, journeying fifteen thousand miles to deliver more than six hundred speeches in fifty counties.
		As a woman, Helen Douglas was particularly vulnerable to charges that she lacked the toughness to oppose the Communists.
		Douglas, in reply, told the student that his report corroborated what she had heard from others.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/m/mitchell-tricky.html (5215 words)

	Amazon.com: Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady : Richard Nixon vs Helen Gahagan Douglas-Sexual Politics and the Red Scare, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The entire nation paid attention as Nixon smeared Douglas as a Communist, claiming she was "pink right down to her underwear." Greg Mitchell provides a well-written account of the race that would forever define Nixon in the minds of many.
		Nixon's opponent, Helen Gahagan Douglas, was doomed as a liberal and a woman in a political time unfriendly to both.
		Douglas survived her defeat and became a respected speaker for women's issues until her death in 1980.
	www.amazon.com /Tricky-Dick-Pink-Lady-Douglas-Sexual/dp/0679416218 (2227 words)

	Center for the Study of History and Memory: Biography: Melvyn Douglas
		Arthur, Thomas H. Helen Gahagan Douglas, born in 1900, interviewed for a biography of her husband, Melvyn Douglas, describes her work with migrant farm workers in California, her relationship with Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt, and her involvement in California and national Democratic Party politics.
		Douglas begins with his early childhood and touches on many of his life experiences, including his early acting days, his life in the United States Army, his travels, his involvement in politics, and the many interesting people he met along the way.
		Arthur, Thomas H. Walter R. Pick, born in 1914, was a first cousin of Helen Gahagan Douglas and, for a short time, a secretary to her and her husband, Melvyn Douglas, during the late nineteen thirties.
	www.dlib.indiana.edu /reference/cshm/ohrc021.html (4090 words)

	Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900-1980) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Douglas as a Democratic U.S. Representative from California from 1945-1951.
		An attractive actress and opera singer, she established a reputation as a liberal spokesperson in the House and became the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1950.
		In one of the nastiest campaigns on record, Nixon accused Douglas of being "soft on communism." His allegations that she was "pink" were successful.
	www.havelshouseofhistory.com /catalog/helen_gahagan_douglas__1900-1980__1654359.htm (184 words)

	Illeana Douglas
		The granddaughter of actor Melvyn Douglas and Congresswoman Helen Gahagan, Illeana Douglas was born in Massachusetts.
		From a young age, Douglas knew she wanted to act and began her initial studies at the prestigious Neighbourhood Playhouse in New York.
		Although Douglas was again praised for her workhere portraying a Carole King-like singer/songwriterthe film did poorly among critics and at the box office.
	www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=3685 (292 words)

	Traveling Exhibitions
		Helen Gahagan Douglas first made her name as an actress and opera singer, and after her Broadway debut in 1922, she was hailed as one of the ten most beautiful women in the world.
		She gradually traded her successful performing career for political activism and served three terms as member of Congress in the 1940s.
		Douglas's husband, actor Melvyn Douglas, was enchanted with this bust when Isamu Noguchi completed it in 1935.
	www.npg.si.edu /cexh/nwomen/douglas.htm (127 words)

	Helen Gahagan Douglas 1900 - 1980 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This work tells the saga of the Douglas families as they grew in power and influence, but remained locked in a bitter feud.
		From the murder of the "Black" James Douglas by James II, through to the murder of James III by the "Red" Douglases, there was much that was cruel and inhuman in the history of these two great families.
		Yet, there were also acts of selflessness, as when a young Douglas woman tried desperately to save the life of James I and when a young Douglas man rescued Mary Queen of Scots from Loch Leven prison.
	blae.net /douglas/helengdouglas.htm (264 words)

	Illeana Douglas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Her step-grandmother Helen Gahagan Douglas was an actress, who later entered politics and ran for the U.S. Senate against Richard Nixon in 1950.
		Acting since she was a child in Connecticut, Douglas studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York from the age of 10 [2].
		On TV, Douglas starred in the series Action (1999) with Jay Mohr, and has played a public defender on several episodes of Law and Order: SVU in 2002 and 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Illeana_Douglas (327 words)

	Helen Gahagan - Moviefone
		Brooklyn-born actress Helen Gahagan had an interesting life.
		Helen Gahagan on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
		Helen Gahagan - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Helen Gahagan Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/helen-gahagan/187967/main (110 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Douglas
		Daughter of Lorado Taft (sculptor) and Ada (Bartlett) Taft; married 1931 to Paul Howard Douglas.
		Son of James Howard Douglas and Annie (Smith) Douglas; married 1915 to Dorothy S. Wolff (divorced 1930) and Emily Taft.
		Impeached by the Legislature in 1984 over his conduct in office and dealings with an officer of a failed savings and loan; acquitted by the state supreme court.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/douglas.html (1225 words)

	The History Buff, Original Historical Autographs & Manuscripts
		Gahagan became a well known star on Broadway in the 1920s.
		Gahagan starred in one Hollywood movie, She, in 1935, playing The Ice Goddess ("She who must be obeyed").
		In the 1940s she entered politics, and was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California for two terms.
	www.ehistorybuff.com /gahagan.html (156 words)

	Oral History - Helen Gahagan Douglas
		The political and theatrical career of Helen Gahagan Douglas (1901-1980) is described in a four volume set of interviews conducted by the Regional Oral History Office of the University of California, Berkeley.
		Accounts of the political campaigns fill the first volume, followed by twelve interviews on her years in the United States Congress (1944-1955) in volume two.
		Activities outside the political sphere are recalled in the third volume, while the concluding one is a substantial oral history memoir from Helen Douglas herself.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/indiv/oral/guides/doug.html (128 words)

	More on The Election of 1950: Richard Nixon vs. Helen Gahagan Douglas
		Members of the Connecticut Anti-Communist Committee disturbed a Helen Gahagan Douglas campaign stop by shouting hostile questions during her speech and passing out anti-Communist pamphlets.
		The election between Nixon and Douglas attracted a great deal of attention because it represented a chance for the Republicans to pick up an extra Senate seat and because the issues at stake were national in scope.
		With Douglas officials insisting that Nixon's anti-communism had backfired, the Nixon camp remained confident of victory.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/98/02/01/home/nixon.html (357 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 96043670
		And it was a year that produced one of the most notorious and influential election contests in America's history.
		In California, two prominent members of Congress, Richard Nixon and Helen Gahagan Douglas, squared off for a seat in the U.S. Senate.
		He was a dynamic thirty-seven-year-old lawyer of moderate means who had just helped send Alger Hiss to jail; she was a rich and beautiful former actress turned progressive Democrat--a pioneering female activist in Congress who attempted to become one of the first women elected to the Senate.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/random0412/96043670.html (349 words)

	Series Descriptions
		Correspondence is both incoming and outgoing, the latter category usually comprised of copies that Workman made of her correspondence.
		Correspondents of note include John Anson Ford, prominent Los Angeles lawyer Joseph Scott, Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy, and Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas and her husband, the actor Melvyn Douglas.
		Her correspondence with Manchester Boddy in Box 6, Folder 8 regards tactics used by this Los Angeles newspaper publisher in his Democratic senatorial primary campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas in 1950, and that would foreshadow those Richard M. Nixon used against Gahagan Douglas in their infamous senatorial campaign of the general election.
	www.lmu.edu /csla/collection/workman/series.html (1837 words)

	Amazon.com: "Helen Gahagan Douglas": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He knew that the CIO already exerted tremendous influence on Helen Gahagan Douglas, a Democrat from the nearby 14th congressional district,...
		became a successful playwright (The Women) and eventually the American ambassador to Italy, as well as Helen Gahagan Douglas, who started her career on the Broadway stage and went on to become a leading member of the California...
		While some liberal intellectuals could attain office (Voorhis and Douglas went to Congress), they were forced...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Helen-Gahagan-Douglas (632 words)

	Powell's Books - by
		He has filtered through long-lost records of the 1950 California Senatorial race in which Nixon faced Helen Gahagan Douglas, former actress, progressive Democrat and proto-feminist.
		Nixon, fresh from his victory in the Alger Hiss case, won the race by portraying Douglas as The Pink Lady, a left-leaning Communist sympathizer.
		Mitchell demonstrates the cold-blooded deceit Nixon employed in destroying Douglas politically and provides ample evidence that 'Tricky Dick,' the sobriquet she coined, would also serve as a fitting epitaph for the only president in American history forced to resign in disgrace." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss,
	www.powells.com /biblio/2-0679416218-2 (196 words)

	Bob's Blog
		Democratic Helen Gahagan Douglas ran against Republican "Tricky Dick" Nixon, when Democratic registration was over 58 percent statewide.
		Nixon won the election with 59 percent of the vote.
		Douglas of being a communist — "pink right down to her underwear" and they printed their attacks on pink paper.
	blog01.kintera.com /Bobs/archives/002686.html (133 words)

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