1940Nominee
Best Performance
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Helen Gahagan
Actor
Boonton, New Jersey, USA
November 25, 1900
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Helen Gahagan (November 25, 1900 – June 28, 1980) was an American actress and (under the name Helen Gahagan Douglas) politician. She was the third woman and first Democratic woman elected to Congress from California; her election made California one of the first two states (the other was Illinois) to have elected female members of the House from both parties. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Gahagan Douglas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1964Nominee
Best Performance
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
1935Nominee
Best Performance
She
Career Highlights
1990Highlight
Best Performance
Nixon
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Nixon