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12. Mai 2008 · There are also sidebars on The Hollywood Ten (1947) and the Alger Hiss affair (1948). The stage is set for the 1950 Senate race, which pitted 50-year-old Helen Gahagan Douglas against 37-year-old Richard Nixon. The New York Times described her as a "young looking former actress." Gahagan Douglas stuck to the issues and her record of fighting ...
29. Juni 1980 · Helen Gahagan Douglas, the actress-turned-congresswoman who lost the 1950 U.S. Senate race to Richard M. Nixon in one of the most vitriolic campaigns in the state’s history, died Saturday in a ...
Helen Gahagan. Actress: She. This beautiful Broadway singer and actress appeared in only one film, portraying the forever-young ice goddess ("she who must be obeyed"), the title character in RKO's 1935 adaptation of H. Rider Haggard's tale, She (1935), opposite Randolph Scott. In the latter 1940s, having entered politics, she would serve two terms in the lower house of the U.S. Congress as a ...
A long-overdue political biography of Helen Gahagan Douglas-Broadway star, Congresswoman, Nixon nemesis, and forgotten heroine of American liberalism.If Hillary Clinton struggled to crack the glass ceiling in 2016, imagine the challenges that faced Helen Gahagan Douglas.
7. Jan. 2010 · Sally Denton’s new biography of Helen Gahagan Douglas, the actress turned New Deal politician, starts on a lyrical note — “Her life would begin and end in sun-filled rooms” — and never ...
H elen Gahagan Douglas was an actress-turned-congresswoman who lost the 1950 U.S. Senate race in California to Richard M. Nixon in one of the most vitriolic campaigns in the state's history. The Jersey-born Democrat was a stage star and operatic singer who moved to the California film community and eventually to California politics.
Helen Gahagan Douglas discusses her many varied careers as a dramatic stage actress, opera singer, star of the 1935 cult film "She," three-term congresswoman...
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