Kirk Douglas has appeared in more than eighty films and was
nominated for an Academy Award for Champion, The Bad and the
Beautiful, and Lust for Life. Douglas received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1981, a special Oscar in 1996, and the National
Medal of the Arts in 2001. He is the author of three previous
bestselling memoirs, three novels, and two children's books.
Anne Buydens Douglas built her career in the film industry as a
publicist. She met Kirk Douglas during the making of Act of Love
(1953) and they married soon after. Anne would become his closest
advisor and eventually take the reins as president of their
independent production company, Bryna Productions.
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