Multiple Oscar-winner Melvyn Douglas was one of the finest actors ever produced by the United States. In addition to his two Oscars, he also won a Tony Award and an Emmy. Douglas would enjoy cinema immortality if for no other reason than his being the man who made Greta Garbo laugh in Ernst Lubitsch's classic comedy Ninotchka (1939), but he was much, much more.He was born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg on April 5, 1901, in Macon, Georgia, to a Russian-Jewish immigrant father and a mother of Scots ...[Read Story]