Paul DouglasFilmography

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Touché

Synopsis: Lumber tycoon Bill Fleming (Paul Douglas) knows that his wife, Laura (Dody Heath), is unfaithful, but he draws the line at killing Laura's love, Philip Baxter (Hugh Marlowe). However, Fleming changes his mind when a young acquaintance named Sandy (Robert Morse) cites an archaic but still viable Read More

Beau James

Actors: Bob Hope, Vera Miles, Paul Douglas, Alexis Smith, Darren McGavin

Synopsis: 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. This biopic chronicles his surprising rise to Read More

This Could Be the Night

Actors: Jean Simmons, Paul Douglas, Anthony Franciosa, Julie Wilson, Neile Adams, Joan Blondell

Synopsis: 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 secretary to rough-and-tumble nightclub owner Rocco Read More

The Solid Gold Cadillac

Actors: Judy Holliday, Paul Douglas, Fred Clark, John Williams, Neva Patterson, Hiram Sherman, Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis: 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 directors, but there was one significant difference. In Read More

Hallmark Hall of Fame: Born Yesterday

Synopsis: Paul Douglas repeats his Broadway stage role as corrupt, bombastic scrap-metal tycoon Harry Brock in this Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday. Taking over from Judy Holliday in the role of Harry's dimwitted mistress Billie Dawn is Mary Martin, while Arthur Hill is Read More

The Leather Saint

Actors: Paul Douglas, John Derek, Jody Lawrance, Cesar Romero, Richard Shannon

Synopsis: 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 finance a medical center for young polio victims, but Read More

The Gamma People

Actors: Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok, Leslie Phillips, Walter Rilia, Philip Leaver

Synopsis: 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 intellectuals have been utilizing gamma rays to create a Read More

Joe Macbeth

Actors: Paul Douglas, Ruth Roman, Bonar Colleano, Gregoire Aslan, Sidney James

Synopsis: 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 ambitions to be even more successful. Mrs. MacBeth Read More

The Hefferan Family

Synopsis: A good Samaritan applies himself to others to the point of injuring his own life by ignoring his personal obligations and house payments. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Green Fire

Actors: Stewart Granger, Grace Kelly, Paul Douglas, John Ericson, Murvyn Vye

Synopsis: 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 threat of death at the hands of local bandit Read More

The Maggie

Actors: Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie, James Copeland, Abe Barker, Tommy Kearins

Synopsis: 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 a tiny Scottish village. Ever anxious to cut Read More

Executive Suite

Actors: William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Walter Pidgeon

Synopsis: Cameron Hawley's novel Executive Suite appeared around the same time as two other tales of big-business intrigue, the 1954 film A Woman's World and the 1955 Rod Serling teleplay Patterns. Elements of all three properties inevitably overlap. In Executive Suite, a furniture-store executive dies Read More

Forever Female

Actors: Ginger Rogers, William Holden, Paul Douglas, James Gleason, Jesse White

Synopsis: 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 to play the leading role, that of a 19 year old Read More

We're Not Married

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen, Victor Moore, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne

Synopsis: Having supped full of success with the multi-storied O. Henry's Full House, 20th Century-Fox assembled another all-star "omnibus" film, We're Not Married. The unifying factor of this enjoyable seriocomedy is provided by justice-of-the-peace Melvin Bush (Victor Moore), who learns to his horror that Read More

When in Rome

Actors: Van Johnson, Paul Douglas, Joseph Calleia, Carlo Rizzo, Tudor Owen

Synopsis: During the Vatican Holy Year of 1950, confidence trickster Joe Brewster (Paul Douglas) disguises himself as a priest and heads to the Holy City. It is Brewster's intention to use his faux clerical garb to evade arrest by the American authorities. But through the influence of American priest Father Read More

Clash by Night

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: The opening credits appearing over a turbulent ocean serve as a foreshadowing of things to come in this standard-issue love triangle that shifts into high drama thanks to taut direction by Fritz Lang and a sizzling performance by Barbara Stanwyck. Returning to live with her brother, Joe (Keith Read More

Never Wave at a WAC

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Paul Douglas, Marie Wilson, William Ching, Arleen Whelan

Synopsis: Self-centered Washington socialite Rosalind Russell joins the WACS in order to be near her boyfriend William Ching, a GI stationed in Paris. Russell is certain that her DC connections will enable her to get out of the service as easily as she got in. Unfortunately for her, Russell's ex-husband Paul Douglas Read More

Rhubarb

Actors: Ray Milland, Jan Sterling, Gene Lockhart, William Frawley, Elsie Holmes

Synopsis: Rhubarb is an amusing, if not entirely faithful, adaptation of the H. Allen Smith novel of the same name. When Thaddeus J. Banner (Gene Lockhart), multimillionaire owner of the Brooklyn baseball team, passes away, he wills the team -- and his $30 million estate -- to his pugnacious pet cat Read More

Fourteen Hours

Actors: Richard Basehart, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Agnes Moorehead, Debra Paget, Robert Keith

Synopsis: Henry Hathaway directed this high-tension drama about a man teetering on the verge of self-destruction and how his dilemma affects those around him. Robert Cosick (Richard Basehart) is a desperate and despondent young man who has never gotten along with his parents (Robert Keith and Agnes Moorehead Read More

Angels in the Outfield

Actors: Paul Douglas, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn, Donna Corcoran, Lewis Stone

Synopsis: Though not the most profitable baseball comedy ever made, Angels in the Outfield is one of the most likeable and enduring. Paul Douglas stars as Guffy McGovern, the combative, foul-mouthed manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates. With his team in the basement once more, McGovern has plenty to complain Read More

The Guy Who Came Back

Actors: Paul Douglas, Joan Bennett, Linda Darnell, Don DeFore

Synopsis: The title character (Paul Douglas) is a pro football player of the early 1940s at the end of his career. Douglas is offered a coaching job, but he stubbornly turns it down in hopes of making a comeback. Day after day he sits in his den watching movies of his past gridiron triumph, much to the Read More

The Big Lift

Actors: Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas, Cornell Borchers, O.E. Hasse, Bruni Loebel

Synopsis: Filmed on location, The Big Lift is a reenactment of the Berlin airlift of 1948. Flexing their postwar muscles, the Russians blockade the Western sector, refusing to allow the Allies to ship supplies to the starving Berliners. From their headquarters at Templehof Airport, a group of courageous Read More

Panic in the Streets

Actors: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel

Synopsis: Filmed entirely on location in New Orleans, Panic in the Streets stars Richard Widmark as Dr. Clinton Reed, a physician from the U.S. Health Service who must race against time to stop a plague. The carrier was an illegal alien, murdered by criminals Jack Palance and Zero Mostel. When local Read More

Love That Brute

Actors: Paul Douglas, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Keenan Wynn, Joan Davis

Synopsis: Love That Brute is a remake of the 1942 comedy Tall, Dark and Handsome. In the original, Cesar Romero starred as a soft-hearted 1920s gangster who manages to maintain a reputation as a dangerous character, even though he's never killed anyone in his life. In the remake, Romero is cast as Pretty Read More

It Happens Every Spring

Actors: Ray Milland, Jean Peters, Paul Douglas, Ed Begley, Sr., Ted de Corsia

Synopsis: Lloyd Bacon's baseball comedy stars Ray Milland as Vernon Simpson, a chemist who develops a product which repels wood. Signing on with a major league team as a pitcher, he throws screwballs doctored with his solution, becoming a sensation who strikes out every batter he faces. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Read More

A Letter to Three Wives

Actors: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas

Synopsis: Three wives, played by Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern and Linda Darnell, are about to embark on a boat trip when each receives a letter, written by a mutual friend named Addie, informing her that Addie is about to run off with one of their husbands. In flashback, each wife wonders if it is her marriage Read More

Everybody Does It

Actors: Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell, Celeste Holm, Charles Coburn, Millard Mitchell

Synopsis: A remake of Wife, Husband and Friend (1938), Everybody Does It is a frantic satire of the opera world. Businessman Paul Douglas is forced to suffer in silence when his wife (Celeste Holm) decides to become an opera star. Compelled to bankroll a concert for his missus, Douglas meets genuine opera Read More