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Margaret Brooke Sullavan (May 16, 1909 – January 1, 1960) was an American actress. Sullavan started her career on the stage in 1929. In 1933 she caught the attention of movie director John M. Stahl and had her debut on the screen that same year in Only Yesterday.
Margaret Sullavan preferred working on the stage and did only 16 movies. She retired from the screen in the early forties, but returned in 1950 to make her last movie, No Sad Songs For Me (1950), in which she plays a woman who is dying of cancer. For the rest of her career she would only appear on the stage.
Sullavan was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Three Comrades (1938). She died of an overdose of barbiturates on January 1, New Year's Day, 1960, at the age of 50.
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Filmography
all 23
Movies 19
self 4
TV Shows 4
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1988)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1961)
No Sad Songs for Me (1950)
What's My Line? (1950)
Studio One (1948)
Cry 'Havoc' (1943)
Appointment for Love (1941)
So Ends Our Night (1941)
Back Street (1941)
The Mortal Storm (1940)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
The Shining Hour (1938)
The Shopworn Angel (1938)
Three Comrades (1938)
The Moon's Our Home (1936)
Next Time We Love (1936)
So Red the Rose (1935)
The Good Fairy (1935)
Little Man, What Now? (1934)
Only Yesterday (1933)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1909-05-16
Deathday1960-01-01 (50 years old)
Birth PlaceNorfolk, United States of America
Height
RelationshipsLeland Hayward (1936 - 1947), William Wyler (1934 - 1936), Henry Fonda (1931 - 1933)
SpouseKenneth Wagg
ChildrenBridget Hayward, Brooke Hayward, William Leland Hayward
FatherCornelius Sullavan
MotherGarland Brooke Council
CitizenshipsUnited States
Also Known AsMargaret Brooke Sullavan, Маргарет Саллаван
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Donaldson Awards
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