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Anne Douglas, 102, widow of Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas, dies

Kirk Douglas, one of the last superstars of Hollywood's golden age of cinema, died in January 2020 at 103.

Anne Douglas, a philanthropist and widow of Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas, died Thursday at her home in Beverly Hills, her family said. She was 102.in February 2020 at the age of 103, met his future wife in Paris in 1953, while filming"It wasn't romantic, but it was legal and her new husband vowed that someday he would marry her again in a big celebration," the Douglas family said in their statement.

Anne escaped by car with friends, headed toward France. But her German papers were a liability, and she married a Belgian to obtain nationality. After the war, she continued her career in the industry, working for American network NBC, then for John Huston on the production ofAnne Douglas was active in diplomacy and philanthropy, including visiting 44 countries as a goodwill ambassador for American values, work for which she was honored by the State Department's United States Information Agency.

 

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