Michael Douglas won an Oscar for producing a film based on this play that his dad Kirk had starred in on Broadway
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Broadway stageDouglas made his first Hollywood film, The... [DOC] [TLE] Michael Douglas, Take Two | Vanity Fair [PAR] After struggling with his own famous but distant father, Michael Douglas has ... 
playing second banana to Karl Malden, Kirk stepped in and lent his son a ... in 
which he'd starred on Broadway, and, wanting to do the movie, he handed the ... 
At age 31, Douglas earned the Oscar for best picture and was in a position to 
produce... [DOC] [TLE] Michael Douglas and Kirk Douglas: The Douglas Dynasty - The ... [PAR] Sep 8, 2010 ... Kirk and Michael Douglas have had parallel livesmegawatt ... Over the 
Cuckoo's Nest, and did not cast his father as the film's lead, asylum troublemaker 
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