Helen Gahagan

Illeana Douglas is her grand-daughter. She appeared on Broadway in Tony Kushner's Angels in America in 1993 and has appeared in the films Meet Joe Black (1998), Pollock (2000), (for which she received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress) and Mystic River (2003) (for which she received a second Oscar nomination). In 1950 she ran for the United States Senate, but was defeated by Richard Nixon in a race considered by her supporters to be a prototypical smear campaign. She is married to Thaddaeus Scheel. In the 1940s she enterered politics, and was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California for two terms. in theatre and earned an MFA from the graduate theatre program of New York University. Gahagan starred in one Hollywood movie, She, in 1935, playing The Ice Goddess ("She who must be obeyed"). She graduated from the University of Texas with a B.A.

She became a well known star on Broadway in the 1920s. In 1931 she married actor Melvyn Douglas. Marcia Gay Harden (born August 17, 1959 in La Jolla, California) is an American actress. Gahagan was born in Boonton, New Jersey.
Helen Gahagan in the 1920s. She was also known as The Pink Lady.

Helen Gahagan (25 November 1900 - 28 June 1980) was a United States actress and (under the name Helen Gahagan Douglas) a politician.