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Daniel Decatur Emmett (October 29, 1815 - June 28, 1904) was an American songwriter, entertainer, and founder of the first troupe of the black-face minstrel tradition, the Virginia Minstrels. He is most remembered as the composer of the song "Dixie". Dan Emmett was born in Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, then a frontier region.- Molly Elliot Seawell was born on 29 October 1860 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Molly Elliot was a writer, known for The Fortunes of Fifi (1917), The Sixteenth Wife (1917) and The Heart of Cerise (1915). Molly Elliot died on 15 November 1916 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Márta Szentgyörgyi was born on 29 October 1888 in Zalaegerszeg, Austria-Hungary. She was an actress, known for Selim Nuno, a börzecézár (1920), Megtisztulás (1917) and A koldusgróf (1918). She died on 16 September 1918 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Károly Baumann was born on 29 October 1871 in Pest [now Budapest], Hungary. He was an actor, known for Tüzet kérek (1912), A pesti háziúr (1908) and Nem Hagy a Hadnagy (1908). He died on 22 October 1920 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Hermann Boßdorf was born on 29 October 1877 in Wiesenburg, Brandenburg, Germany. He was a writer, known for Vier Frauen um Kray (1973) and Der rote Unterrock (1992). He was married to Bertha Dannies. He died on 24 September 1921 in Hamburg, Germany.
- Frantisek Kudlácek was born on 29 October 1857 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republik]. He was an actor, known for Mrtví zijí (1922), Prodaná nevesta (1922) and Magdalena (1921). He died on 4 August 1922 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Actor
- Writer
Will M. Cressy was born on 29 October 1864 in Bradford, New Hampshire, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Stateroom Secrets (1919) and Fifty Dollars a Kiss (1915). He was married to Blanche Dayne. He died on 7 May 1930 in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.- Georg Engel was born on 29 October 1866 in Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. He was a writer, known for Ut mine stromtid (1919), Fiskebyn (1920) and Die Furcht vor dem Weibe (1921). He died on 19 October 1931 in Berlin, Germany.
- Leonid Dobrovolsky was born on 29 October 1868. He was an actor, known for Motele the Weaver (1928), Children of the New Day (1929) and Bortsy za svetloe tsarstvo III Internatsionala (1919). He died on 25 June 1932.
- Art Director
- Costume Designer
- Production Designer
Karl Görge was born on 29 October 1872. He was an art director and costume designer, known for Der gefesselte Polo (1929), Schlagende Wetter (1923) and The City of Temptation (1925). He died on 19 May 1933.- Julia Swayne Gordon was born on 29 October 1878 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for My Lady's Slipper (1916), You Can't Fool Your Wife (1923) and The Painted World (1919). She was married to Hugh Thomas Swayne. She died on 28 May 1933 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
George Ridgwell was born on 29 October 1867 in Woolwich, London, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for A Gamble in Lives (1920), The Sword of Damocles (1920) and Don't Blame Your Children (1922). He died on 3 April 1935 in Hampstead, London, England, UK.- Apel·les Mestres was born on 29 October 1854 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Apel·les was a writer, known for Teatro catalán (1964) and Un passeig per la cultura catalana (2007). Apel·les died on 19 July 1936 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
- Queen Marie of Romania was born Princess Marie of England on October 29, 1875. She was the daughter of Queen Victoria's son Albert and his wife Marie who was the daughter of Czar Alexander II of Russia.
She spent much of her early life in England, but her father was a navy man so she moved from England to Malta and then to Germany when she was young. She spent much of her time growing up with her brothers and sisters as well as her many cousins. When she was a teenager her cousin, the future King George V of England visited her in Malta. During these visits they fell in love and wanted to marry. However their mothers did not like this idea.
Shortly after nixing the idea of her nephew being her son-in law Marie's mother decided to set Marie up with Grand Duke Ferdinand, the heir to the King of Romania. Shortly after the marriage they moved to Romania where they lived in a castle with Ferdinand's Uncle King Carol I. Shortly after this Marie became pregnant later giving birth to future King Carol II. This led to Marie giving birth to six little princes and princesses some of which where not the children of Ferdinand and several of whom would marry the children of Marie's cousin Sophie, Queen of Greece.
Marie's life in Romania was not an easy on. She did not always get along with Ferdinand and his Uncle and Ferdinand's Aunt Elisabeth (or Carmen Sylvia) treated Marie with contempt by taking away her children. To make her life more bearable Marie would frequently leave Romania, going to Germany to visit her mother and sisters, or Russia to visit her cousins the Czar and Czarina Nicholas and Alexandra. She did this numerous times, but twice she did this because she was pregnant with children that were not Ferdinand's.
Things where not easier once Ferdinand became King in October of 1914. World War One had started in Europe and it was an awful time for her and her family spread from Spain to Russia. After the war was not easy either with her son and then grandson on the throne. In 1938 the Second World War was soon to start, but Marie was not feeling well. She had internal hemorrhages that killed her on July 18 of that year. - Actor
- Writer
Walter C. Kelly was born on 29 October 1873 in Mineville, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Tugboat Princess (1936), The Virginia Judge (1935) and Laughing Irish Eyes (1936). He died on 6 January 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.- Imre Halmai was born on 29 October 1848 in Pest, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Leánybecsület (1923), A kis gézengúz (1917) and Székelyvér (1922). He died on 24 January 1940 in Vál, Hungary.
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Writer
Douglas Dawson was born on 29 October 1885 in Canada. He was an assistant director and writer, known for The Snowshoe Trail (1922), A Regular Scout (1926) and Shipwrecked (1926). He died on 13 December 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Jean Giraudoux was born on 29 October 1882 in Bellac, Haute-Vienne, France. He was a writer, known for Wicked Duchess (1942), Angels of Sin (1943) and Ondina (1977). He was married to Suzanne Boland. He died on 31 January 1944 in Paris, France.
- Nicola Maldacea was born on 29 October 1870 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He was an actor, known for Tosca (1941), Miseria e nobiltà (1940) and Amazzoni bianche (1936). He was married to Elvira Faraone. He died on 5 March 1945 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Writer
- Producer
Josef Goebbels, the man who almost single-handedly developed the field of propaganda into an art form, would, for a day, be the leader of World War II Germany. Goebbels was born in the German Rhineland to strict Catholic parents. He was short, standing at 5'5", of small stature and thin build, and had a sharp, prominent nose and an oily, sallow complexion. He was rejected by the German army in World War I on the basis of being a cripple, specifically, he had a club foot for which he wore a brace, contracted after a bout of osteomyelitis. After Germany was defeated, Goebbels joined the National Socialist Workers Party, more infamously known as the Nazi party, which opposed the democratic Weimar Republic that had been set up to govern Germany. Because of his impressive oratorical skills and uncanny ability to slant arguments to his view, Goebbels was considered an ideal leader in the Nazi party. It was there that he met Hitler in 1925. Though they both shared a hatred of Jews, Goebbels, a dedicated socialist, initially tried to expel the relatively capitalistic Hitler, who he saw as simply an opportunist. He would change his tune, however, when Hitler rose in rank to become leader. Hitler rewarded Goebbels with a post as Nazi district leader of Berlin, where he would wage year-round political campaigns that eventually drained the organization of virtually all of its funds. He met and married divorcée Magda Quandt around this time. Though their membership grew, the Nazis didn't manage to attract a sizable enough number of voters - especially in Berlin - to attain any kind of legitimate political power, due to both the rebounding German economy and a distrust of the gang of street thugs within the Nazi party called the Sturm Abteilung (SA). However, after the US stock market crashed in 1929, the European economies took a tremendous hit, and the resulting worldwide economic depression hit Germany especially hard. The dire economic straits of many Germans were tailor-made for a demagogue like Hitler, and, slowly, he began to take power; first as Chancellor in 1933, then as Führer in 1934. Goebbels was named minister of entertainment and propaganda, a position that gave him have sole discretion as to what books, magazines, films, radios, newspapers, etc., could print, say, or show. Knowing the media power where the influencing of people was concerned, he searched for a director to place as the head of UFA, Germany's leading film studio. In a famous meeting, he offered the position to respected German director Fritz Lang, who tried to excuse himself by saying that he had Jewish grandparents, to which Goebbels curtly replied, "We will decide who is Jewish!" Lang promptly fled the country and Goebbels settled on a rising female director, Leni Riefenstahl, as the "official" Nazi filmmaker. She directed two documentaries on the party's Nuremburg rallies of 1932 and 1933. The first was disowned by Riefenstahl because of the little time she had to prepare and the fact that it was never shown publicly because the film featured Ernst Röhm, leader of the SA, who along with many SA leaders, was murdered by the Nazi high command when they moved against the SA, just after the film was completed. Their second attempt, on which Goebbels assisted Riefenstahl extensively, is perhaps the most famous propaganda film ever made: Triumph of the Will (1935). It took almost a year to prepare from the miles upon miles of footage shot. It was a success worldwide, but was not particularly popular in Germany at the time. Goebbels then commissioned Riefenstahl to shoot the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which the Nazi leadership assumed would be dominated by German athletes. The Germans did win the total medal counts, but African-American sprinter Jesse Owens shattered the myth of Aryan dominance by winning gold medals in four different events - more than any other competitor - and was idolized by the German crowds.
After World War II broke out, Goebbels was responsible for creating a massive propaganda body of work by the German government, much of which still remains recorded. He was known to use almost anything for propaganda purposes, such as posters from French and German movies with Jewish stars as examples of the "typical Jew." Even when Germany was crumbling in 1945 and the Allies demanded unconditional surrender, Goebbels used that as a motivational tool to demonstrate that every German needed to fight or face destruction.
As Allied forces began to advance toward Germany, a paranoid and rapidly deteriorating Hitler had many of his assistants executed or imprisoned, but Goebbels was given the title of "Defender of Berlin." Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on April 30, leaving Goebbels as the next in command to take over the faltering government, which, by then, controlled only a small part of Berlin. As both Soviet forces on one side and American and British forces on the other closed in on the capital, Goebbels was well aware of the fate he would meet if he were captured alive. On May 1, 1945, he reluctantly endorsed the plan his wife had conjured, which she had communicated to Albert Speer, and permitted her to drug their six children with morphine and proceed to poison them to death through the administration of a cyanide capsule. Later that day, after requesting a moment of privacy with his wife from the onlooking SS soldiers, he shot her in head, as they had also planned, and then took his own life within seconds. Soviet troops, who Goebbels had always boasted would never get to Berlin, found him and his wife partially burnt and unburied outside the Fuhrerbunker. He was survived only by a stepson from Magda's first marriage.- The great English character star A. Bromley Davenport born Arthur Henry Bromley-Davenport in Baginton, Warwickshire in 1867, his father was a well-known conservative politician William Bromley Davenport. Arthur was educated at Eton College, Berkshire. He began his acting career on the London stage at the age of 25 years old in 1892 appearing in many popular theatre productions. From 1920 he became a regular character film performer often playing sophisticated elderly gentleman in more than 70 drama, comedy and crime movies, making his film debut as Sir Crispin Vickrey in 'The Great Gay Road' starring Stewart Rome for the Broadwest Film Co. His best known films include 'Fox Farm' (1922) Eileen of the Trees' (1928) 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' (1934) ' Jamaica Inn' (1939) and 'Love on the Dole' (1941) est. He was last seen in Carol Reed's 'The Way Ahead' starring David Niven in 1944. Married twice, Elizabeth Light in 1886 and Madame Adele Burdillat of Nice, France in 1921.
- Margaret Murray was born on 29 October 1868 in Islington, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Blue Bird (1910). She died on 24 November 1947 in Pancras, London, England, UK.
- Actress
- Producer
Ria Jende was born on 29 October 1898 in Brussels, Belgium. She was an actress and producer, known for Madeleine (1919), Die Präriediva (1920) and Versunkene Welten (1922). She died on 7 December 1948 in Hadamar, Hesse, Germany.- Erling Drangsholt was born on 29 October 1885 in Kristiansand, Norway. He was an actor, known for Sangen til livet (1943), Madame Visits Oslo (1927) and To liv (1946). He died on 20 November 1950.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Fanny Brice was a popular and influential American comedienne, singer, theatre and film actress, who made many stage, radio and film appearances but is best remembered as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series, The Baby Snooks Show. Thirteen years after her death, she was portrayed on the Broadway stage by Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl. The show was made into a musical film in 1968. Born Fania Borach, in New York City, she was the third child of Rose (Stern) and Charles Borach, relatively well-off saloon owners of Hungarian Jewish descent. In 1908, she dropped out of school to work in a burlesque revue, and two years later she began her association with Florenz Ziegfeld, headlining his Ziegfeld Follies from 1910 into the 1930s. In the 1921 Follies, she was featured singing "My Man" which became both a big hit and her signature song. She made a popular recording of it for Victor Records. The second song most associated with her is "Second Hand Rose". She recorded nearly two dozen record sides for Victor and also cut several for Columbia. She is a posthumous recipient of a Grammy Hall of Fame Award for her 1921 recording of "My Man". Her films include My Man (1928), Be Yourself! (1930) and Everybody Sing (1938) with Judy Garland. Brice, Ray Bolger and Harriet Hoctor were the only original Ziegfeld performers to portray themselves in The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and Ziegfeld Follies (1946). For her contribution to the motion picture industry, she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at MP 6415 Hollywood Boulevard.- Tom B. Forman was born on 29 October 1891 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for Dangerous Crossroads (1933), Kosher Kitty Kelly (1926) and Devil's Dice (1926). He died on 16 November 1951 in Venice, California, USA.
- Actor
- Cinematographer
- Producer
Jaime Redondo was born on 29 October 1890 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He was an actor and cinematographer, known for Fogo de Palha (1926), Cousas Nossas (1931) and A Voz do Carnaval (1933). He died on 5 December 1952 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.- Jess Herring was born on 29 October 1895 in Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for The Girl I Loved (1923), A Midnight Bell (1921) and A Law Unto Herself (1918). He was married to Aggie Herring. He died on 5 March 1953 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Sigurd Langberg was born on 29 October 1897 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Week-end (1935), Naar bønder elsker (1942) and Blaavand melder Storm (1938). He died on 8 July 1954 in Denmark.
- Raf Pindi was born on 29 October 1893 in Gallipoli, Apulia. He was an actor, known for Mystery of the Black Jungle (1954), Without Pity (1948) and The Mute of Portici (1952). He died on 30 November 1955 in Milan, Italy.
- Solly Hofman was born on 29 October 1882 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He died on 10 March 1956 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
- Writer
- Actor
William "Billy" K. Wells wrote for stage, screen and radio and was remembered as a script writer on twelve "George White's Scandals" productions. Wells worked on musical comedies for the Broadway stage from 1919 to 1943, returning in 1953 with "John Murray Anderson's Almanac". Wells was born in New York City and died there seventy-two years later on 17 April, 1956.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Jackson Rose was born on 29 October 1886 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Troopers Three (1930), Born to Speed (1947) and The Big Fight (1930). He died on 23 September 1956 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
- Producer
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Charles W. Mack was born on 29 October 1878 in Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Blue Blazes (1921), The Devil's Ghost (1922) and The Lost Chord (1925). He died on 29 November 1956 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Douglas Quayle was born on 29 October 1898 in Stepney, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and Her Excellency (1949). He died on 17 August 1957 in Wembley, London, England, UK.
- Thomas McMorrow was born on 29 October 1886 in New York City, New York, USA. Thomas was a writer, known for Bits of Life (1921). Thomas died on 18 November 1957.
- Enrico Pea was born on 29 October 1881 in Seravezza, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Gli orizzonti del sole (1955). He died on 11 August 1958 in Forte dei Marmi, Tuscany, Italy.
- Composer
- Music Department
Rex Dunn was born on 29 October 1888 in Croydon, England, UK. He was a composer, known for The Spellbinder (1939), Panhandle (1948) and The Fresh Lobster (1928). He died on 25 May 1959 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Although there may have been "bigger" actresses in Hollywood's history, there were few larger than Hope Emerson. She notably appeared as a witness for the defense in "Adam's Rib". At 6' 2" and 230 pounds, she towered over many of her male co-stars, and her size, brusque voice and stern demeanor typed her for a career in villainous roles, such as her star turn as the sadistic prison matron in Caged (1950), which garnered her an Oscar nomination. She could, however, play lighter parts, as in Westward the Women (1951), in which she played, of all things, a mail-order bride. She also worked steadily in television and played "Mother" in the landmark series Peter Gunn (1958). In the 1950s she was the voice of Elsie the Cow in a series of TV commercials for Borden's milk. She died of liver disease in 1960.- Art Director
- Production Designer
- Art Department
Kurt Richter was born on 29 October 1885 in Austria. He was an art director and production designer, known for Panzerschrank Nr. 13 (1921), Das Geheimnis der Mumie (1921) and Der Dolch des Malayen (1919). He died on 26 April 1960 in Salzburg, Austria.- David Cavendish was born on 29 October 1893 in Camberwell, Lambeth, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Captain Blood (1935), Two Arabian Knights (1927) and Random Harvest (1942). He died on 9 October 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Hugo Döblin was born on 29 October 1876 in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Er oder ich (1930), Gentlemen-Gauner (1920) and From Morning to Midnight (1920). He died on 4 November 1960 in Zurich, Switzerland.
- Additional Crew
Jacques Kapralik was born on 29 October 1906 in Bucharest, Romania. Jacques is known for Payment on Demand (1951). Jacques was married to Hedwig . Jacques died on 28 November 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Peter Preses was born on 29 October 1907 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He was an actor and writer, known for Der Bockerer (1981), Man ist nur zweimal jung (1958) and An der schönen blauen Donau (1955). He died on 10 July 1961 in Vienna, Austria.- Edythe Sterling was born on 29 October 1886 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for The Further Adventures of Stingaree (1917), The Secret Man (1917) and When the Fiddler Came to Big Horn (1915). She was married to Art Acord and Clifford L. Younger. She died on 4 June 1962 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Pierre Rocher was born on 29 October 1898 in Alençon, Orne, France. He was a writer, known for Feu sacré (1942), La brigade sauvage (1939) and Jenny (1936). He died on 22 May 1963 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- Additional Crew
- Script and Continuity Department
- Producer
James J. Geller was born on 29 October 1893. He was a producer, known for Love from a Stranger (1947) and Screen Directors Playhouse (1955). He died on 16 June 1963 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Mary Donahoe was born on 29 October 1891 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She died on 29 November 1965 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Producer
- Director
- Production Manager
Lorens Marmstedt, born Sigfrid Lorenzo Eriksson on October 29, 1908 in Stockholm, Sweden, was a producer, director and writer. "It was he who taught me to make the film" (Ingmar Bergman). During his childhood Lorens lived with his father, a Swedish businessman, and his Italian mother, in France, Italy and Sweden. When his father died, he changed his last name from Eriksson to Marmstedt. 1927, only 18 years old, he was hired as a film critic by one of Stockholms most prominent newspapers, Svenska Dagbladet. He became one of Sweden's first cinephiles and wrote appreciatively about Soviet film, Ernst Lubitsch and René Clair. In 1932 he made his debut as film director with a musical drama "En stulen vals/ A stolen waltz". Six years later, 1938, Lorens Marmstedt founded the production company Terrafilm. He collaborated at first with directors Schamyl Bauman and Anders Henrikson. Later he involved the new generation of filmmakers, Hasse Ekman, Hampe Faustman and Ingmar Bergman. He became the main player in the Swedish film. In 1950 he founded the theatre house Intima Teatern in Stockholm. It opened with Ingmar Bergman's production of "The Threepenny Opera". Lorens Marmstedt produced 50 feature films and directed six during his active period from 1932 to 1966. Lorens Marmstedt passed away on April 4, 1966, during the filming of Arne Mattsson's "Yngsjömordet", starring Gunnel Lindblom and Hasse Ekman's son Gösta.- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Tall, oval-faced, fair-haired, sensitive-looking Douglass Montgomery was born in Los Angeles on October 29, 1909, the son of a jeweler. Graduating from Los Angeles High School, he sought early experience at the Pasadena Playhouse. Deciding to move to New York to pursue the stage, he was quickly typed as dashing suitors in romantic and social dramas.
After his discovery by an MGM agent and his resulting studio contract, Douglass's marquee name was immediately changed to Kent Douglass so as not to be mistaken for the studio's major star Robert Montgomery. A handsome and dapper dramatic "second lead" opposite some of MGM's powerhouse actresses, he supported Joan Crawford in her vehicle Paid (1930), which was his debut film, and, more memorably, Katharine Hepburn in Little Women (1933) as "Laurie" opposite Hepburn's "Jo." Other "second lead" MGM credits include Daybreak (1931) starring Ramon Novarro and Helen Chandler, Five and Ten (1931) with Marion Davies and Leslie Howard, and two films as co-lead: the romantic WWI drama Waterloo Bridge (1931), directed by James Whale, as "Roy Cronin" opposite Mae Clarke's "Myra," and the melodrama A House Divided (1931), directed by William Wyler, as the son of Walter Huston and love interest to Helen Chandler.
Montgomery's stay at MGM was very brief, and when he left in 1932 he immediately changed his name back to his real name. Now a freelancing agent, Douglass went on to play leads or second leads in such films as Paramount's 8 Girls in a Boat (1934) opposite Dorothy Wilson, Universal's Little Man, What Now? (1934) co-starring Margaret Sullavan, Fox's Music in the Air (1934) starring Gloria Swanson, Universal's Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) with Claude Rains and Heather Angel, and Universal's Lady Tubbs (1935) starring Alice Brady.
Montgomery scored well with his first top-billed role as the frail, alcoholic 19th century "Swanee River" composer Stephen Foster in the "poverty row" biopic Harmony Lane (1935) with Evelyn Venable and Adrienne Ames as his lady loves. This success was followed by a co-starring role opposite Constance Bennett in Everything Is Thunder (1936) as well as a top-billed role in the British comedy Tropical Trouble (1936); a lead role as spoiled playboy Life Begins with Love (1937) opposite Jean Parker, who played "Beth" in his version of Little Women (1933); the crime drama Counsel for Crime (1937); and a fourth-billed role in the Bob Hope comedy-mystery classic The Cat and the Canary (1939).
Montgomery's career was interrupted by World War II service with the Royal Canadian Air Force, after which he moved to Great Britain and made a few films there. He played American pilot John Hollis in Johnny in the Clouds (1945) starring Michael Redgrave and John Mills, played an amnesiac in the romantic drama Woman to Woman (1947), flew to Rome to play an American composer in the Italian romancer Sinfonia fatale (1947) ("When in Rome") with Marina Berti and Sarah Churchill, and starred in his last film, the melodrama Forbidden (1949) with Hazel Court.
On March 14, 1952, Montgomery married British actress Kay Young, who was previously married to actor Michael Wilding. Young and Montgomery remained married until his death. Moving to TV work, he and Kay eventually moved to the States, and he finished his career with guest appearances in such anthology shows as "Cameo Theatre" "Robert Montgomery Presents," "Kraft Theatre," and "TV Reader's Digest," in which he ably played the title roles in stories about "Peer Gynt," "Robert Louis Stevenson" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."
Douglass Montgomery died of spinal cancer in Norwalk, Connecticut, aged 58, on July 23, 1966.