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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 ...
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 ...
At midafternoon, Helen Gahagan Douglas, the Democratic front-runner in the Senate race, received a telegram from actress Greta Garbo that read, "Helen--Tonight or Never. God bless you." Tonight or Never, a Broadway hit, had catapulted Helen Gahagan to stardom in 1930 and introduced her to future husband Melvyn Douglas, who later appeared opposite Garbo in Ninotchka.
Gahagan Douglas was elected Democratic National Committee woman from California and served in the U.S.A.. House of Representatives from 1944 to 1950. In 1950, she ran against Richard Nixon for the United States Senate and lost. After this, she withdrew from politics but remained a speaker and activist.
Douglas, Helen Gahagan (1900–1980)American actress, opera singer, and liberal Democratic Congressional representative, who ran unsuccessfully against Richard Nixon and his infamous campaign. Name variations: known as Helen Gahagan from 1900 to 1931, as Helen Gahagan Douglas after 1931. Source for information on Douglas, Helen Gahagan (1900–1980): Women in World History: A Biographical ...
Helen Gahagan Douglas (November 25, 1900 – June 28, 1980) was an American actress and politician. She was the third woman and first Democratic woman elected to Congress from California. Her election made California one of the first two states to elect female members to the House from both parties.
DOUGLAS, HELEN GAHAGAN, A Representative from California; born in Boonton, Morris County, N.J., November 25, 1900; attended the public schools, Berkeley School for Girls, Brooklyn, N.Y., Capen School for Girls, Northampton, Mass., and Barnard College, New York City; moved to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1931; engaged in the theatrical profession and also as an opera singer 1922-1938; Democratic ...
