Margaret Sullavan Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Margaret Brooke Sullavan (May 16, 1909 – January 1, 1960) was an American stage and film actress.Sullavan began her career onstage 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. Sullavan preferred working on the stage and made only 16 movies, four of which were opposite James Stewart in a popular partnership. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Three Comrades (1938). 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 played a woman who was dying of cancer. For the rest of her career she would only appear on the stage.Sullavan experienced increasing hearing problems, depression, and mental frailty in the 1950s. She died of an overdose of barbiturates, which was ruled accidental, on January 1, 1960 at the age of 50.
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Fact
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Like her former husbands Henry Fonda and William Wyler, she was a political liberal.
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In June 1934 it was announced in movie industry Trade Papers that Margaret Sullavan's next movie after "The Good Fairy" would be "Within These Present" based on a story by Margaret Ayer Barnes. The movie was eventually never made.
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Gave birth to her 1st child at age 28, a daughter Brooke Hayward on July 5, 1937. Child's father was her 3rd husband, Leland Hayward.
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Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 29, a daughter Bridget Hayward on February 18, 1939. Child's father was her 3rd husband, Leland Hayward.
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Gave birth to her 3rd child at age 31, a son William Hayward on March 27, 1941. Child's father was her 3rd husband, Leland Hayward.
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Was considered for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).
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When she was attending Harvard University, she performed with the University Players with future stars like James Stewart, Henry Fonda and Kent Smith.
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Turned down the part of Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night (1934). Claudette Colbert was then given the role and won a best actress Oscar for her performance.
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Her youngest daughter, Bridget, was found dead in her Manhattan apartment on October 31, 1960, only eleven months after her mother died. It was ruled a suicide by drug overdose, like her mother's death. She was 21 years old.
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Her son, William Hayward, also committed suicide. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the heart on March 8, 2008, in his trailer in Castaic, California. He was 66 years old.
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Her eldest daughter, actress Brooke Hayward, wrote an autobiographical book titled "Haywire" which was a best-seller in 1981. It was later made into the television movie Haywire (1980), starring Lee Remick.
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She suffered from a congenital hearing defect, otosclerosis, that worsened as she aged, making her more and more hard of hearing. Her voice developed its distinctive throatiness because she could hear low tones better than high ones.
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As written in a 1940s Architectural Digest piece about her Brentwood, California home, Sullavan shared that she chose the Connecticut-style colonial home due to her love of New England. After years of searching for the quintessential property, she and her then-husband Leland Hayward purchased a rambling saltbox house on 100 bucolic acres in Brookfield, Connecticut.
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As a child, family friend Peter Fonda had a crush on Sullavan's daughter Bridget. In adulthood, after Bridget committed suicide, he named his own daughter (Bridget Fonda) after her.
She and Henry Fonda were divorced after two years.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Producers' Showcase
1954
TV Series
Mary Matthews
Schlitz Playhouse
1951
TV Series
The Ford Theatre Hour
1951
TV Series
Alexa Trent
No Sad Songs for Me
1950
Mary Scott
The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre
1949
TV Series
Kate
Cry 'Havoc'
1943
Lt. Smith
Appointment for Love
1941
Dr. Jane Alexander
Back Street
1941
Ray Smith
So Ends Our Night
1941
Ruth Holland
The Mortal Storm
1940
Freya Roth
The Shop Around the Corner
1940
Klara Novak
The Shining Hour
1938
Judy Linden
The Shopworn Angel
1938
Daisy Heath
Three Comrades
1938
Patricia Hollmann
I Loved a Soldier
1936
The Moon's Our Home
1936
Cherry Chester / Sarah Brown
Next Time We Love
1936
Cicely Hunt Tyler
So Red the Rose
1935
Valette Bedford
The Good Fairy
1935
Luisa 'Lu' Ginglebuscher
Little Man, What Now?
1934
Emma 'Lammchen' Pinneberg
Only Yesterday
1933
Mary Lane
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Shopworn Angel
1938
"Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile!" 1915, uncredited / performer: "Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile!" 1915 - uncredited
Three Comrades
1938
"The Comrade Song" 1938, uncredited
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
What's My Line?
1955
TV Series
Herself - Mystery Guest
The Ed Sullivan Show
1953
TV Series
Herself
The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention
1937
Documentary short
Herself (uncredited)
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas!
2011
TV Movie documentary
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
Documentary
In the Good Old Summertime Intro
2004
Video documentary short
Klara Novak
Ziegfeld Girl Intro
2004
Video documentary short
Klara Novak
Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies
1982
TV Movie documentary
Herself (uncredited)
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to James Stewart
1980
TV Special documentary
Actress 'Shopworn Angel' (uncredited)
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Henry Fonda
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