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Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones' young children are unaware that their father is an Oscar-winning actor. Why so? It seems their mother and Michael Douglas' wife Catherine Zeta-Jones has banned their kids from watching his adult-orientated movies.

The Mask Of Zorro beauty refuses to let her son Dylan, seven, and daughter Carys, four, see Douglas' work on films like Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct but is more than happy to show them her own movies and that of their grandfather Kirk Douglas because they are more suitable for family viewing.

She says, "They've seen (Kirk's film) 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, so they know about their grandfather. And they've seen me in Zorro and in Sinbad, the animated movie, which they are rather charmingly convinced I cut my hair for.

"But they're young, so I'm not having them seeing Michael's films with Glenn Close and Sharon Stone just yet!"