Appeared as a character in Gore Vidal's 1974 novel "Myron," his sequel
to Myra Breckinridge (1970), co-starring with
Maria Montez and Bruce Cabot in the apocryphal movie
"Siren of Babylon" that is being shot on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot in
1948 in the novel. In the "movie," Calhern "played" the role of the
Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar.
In Executive Suite (1954) he plays an unscrupulous businessman who tries to take
advantage of the situation after the president of a corporation dies
unexpectedly of a heart attack. Calhern also died suddenly from the
same cause.