| Christina Aziz |
American actor, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA on April 11, 1907, as Paul Douglas Fleischer. He received the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1954 for Executive Suite. He also received two stars on the Walk of Fame for his work on cinema and television in 1960.
He married five times: Sussie Welles, Elizabeth Farnsworth (1931), Geraldine Higgins (1940-1941), actress Virginia Field (1942-1946), and Jan Sterling (1950-1959), with whom he remained until his death on September 11, 1959 in Hollywood, California, USA, following a heart attack.
His most important works include Fourteen Hours (1951), A Letter to Three Wives (1949), and Panic in the Streets (1950). He showed interest in acting in high school in West Philadelphia, then continued to fulfill his hobby at Yale University, but he did not complete his studies and preferred to play American football in the Frankford Yellow Jackets team.
He joined the radio as a sports broadcaster with a sense of comedy. He acted on Broadway, but he was more successful on the radio. At the end of the forties, he headed to Hollywood with his first hit movie, A Letter to Three Wives (1949). He took advantage of his athleticism in several films, including It Happens Every Spring (1949).
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