Kirk Douglas tells PEOPLE how he narrowly avoided ... Then several years later, he managed to recover from a severe stroke that threatened to permanently damage his voice in 1996.

Flirting with Anne Hathaway to Recovering from a Stroke How Kirk Douglas Risked It All to Break Hollywood's Blacklist: 'That's the Thing I'm Most Proud of' Inside Kirk and Anne Douglas' Nearly 70 ...

1995 – Suffers a stroke that initially leaves him without ... “Before I Forget,” at the Center Theatre Group/Kirk Douglas Theatre in California.

Over his six-decade film career, Kirk Douglas shared the ... Buydens’ battle with breast cancer; Douglas’ struggle with depression following his stroke in 1996. Through all of that and more ...