 But she finally got me. Melvin Douglas, who was a big movie star in those days, was coming to Broadway to do a Broadway play, and they had to find a little kid that looked a little like Melvin Douglas. He was very blonde, and so was I. And so I read at the Schubert Theater, but I didn't know how to read at seven years old. They had to tell me what the lines were, and then I just sort of repeated them.