Episode 51 - Kirk Douglas

Published: Sept. 7, 2017, 4 a.m.

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Kirk Douglas played heroes, villains, and morally ambiguous characters in between in a career that spanned six decades. He earned three Oscar nominations and turned in intense and memorable performances in Spartacus, Gunfight at the OK Corral, Seven Days in May, and many more. But in 1947, Kirk Douglas was a rising Hollywood star when he made two visits to \\u201cradio\\u2019s outstanding theater of thrills.\\u201d We\\u2019ll hear him as a man plotting to keep a newfound fortune out of his wife\\u2019s hands in \\u201cCommunity Property\\u201d (originally aired on CBS on April 10, 1947) and as a washed-up writer who hopes to pass off a master\\u2019s work as his own in \\u201cThe Story of Markham\\u2019s Death\\u201d (originally aired on CBS on October 2, 1947).

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