Margaret Sullavan
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 16, 1909
- Died
- January 1, 1960 (aged 50)
- Birthplace
- Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Margaret Sullavan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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Filmography
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Movie · as Self - Actress 'Rebecca' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV · 2 eps
No Sad Songs for Me
Movie · as Mary Scott
What's My Line?
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Studio One
TV · as Janet Layton Willson · 1 ep
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Cry 'Havoc'
Movie · as Lieutenant Smith
Joan Crawford's Home Movies
Movie · as Self
Back Street
Movie · as Ray Smith
So Ends Our Night
Movie · as Ruth Holland
Appointment for Love
Movie · as Jane Alexander
The Mortal Storm
Movie · as Freya Roth
The Shop Around the Corner
Movie · as Klara Novak
The Shopworn Angel
Movie · as Daisy Heath
Three Comrades
Movie · as Patricia Hollmann
The Shining Hour
Movie · as Judy Linden
The Moon's Our Home
Movie · as Cherry Chester / Sarah Brown
Next Time We Love
Movie · as Cicely Hunt Tyler
The Good Fairy
Movie · as Luisa
So Red the Rose
Movie · as Valette Bedford
Little Man, What Now?
Movie · as Lammchen
Only Yesterday
Movie · as Mary Lane