Spanish postcard, no. CM. -318. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Melvyn Douglas and Norma Shearer in We Were Dancing (Robert Z. Leonard, 1942).
Two-time Oscar-winner Melvyn Douglas (1901-1981) was one of America's finest actors, and 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.
American actress Norma Shearer (1902-1983) was the 'First Lady of MGM'. She often played spunky, sexually liberated ingenues, and was the first person to be nominated five times for an Academy Award for acting. Shearer won the Best Actress Oscar for The Divorcee (1930).
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