Kirk Douglas him to only say "Thank you", and leave the stage. Douglas agreed. But when standing in front of the audience, he had second thoughts: "I intended to just say 'thank you,' but I saw 1,000 people, and felt I had to say something more, and I did." Valenti remembers that after Douglas held up the Oscar, addressed his sons, and told his wife how much he loved her, everyone was astonished at his voice's improvement: Kirk Douglas Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch Demsky, December 9, 1916) is an American actor, filmmaker, author and centenarian. He is one of the last
William Elliott (actor, born 1879) William Elliott (actor, born 1879) William Elliott (December 4, 1879 - February 5, 1932) was an American stage and screen actor. The year of Elliott's birth is sometimes credited as 1885. As a child he played violin with the Weems Juvenile Concert Party. He toured in the stage companies of Herbert Kelcey and Effie Shannon, Mary Shaw, and Richard Mansfield. He was one of the most popular leading men in the first two decades of the twentieth century. He was the son-in-law of David Belasco through his first wife Augusta Belasco. He then was married to Louise LaGrange who later