Margaret Sullavan
Actor
- Born
- May 16, 1909 · Norfolk, Virginia, USA
- Died
- January 1, 1960 (age 50)
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.
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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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Known for
The Shop Around the Corner
January 12, 1940
The Mortal Storm
June 20, 1940
Three Comrades
June 2, 1938
The Good Fairy
February 18, 1935
The Shining Hour
November 18, 1938
The Shopworn Angel
July 15, 1938
Cry 'Havoc'
November 23, 1943
Little Man, What Now?
June 4, 1934
Back Street
February 7, 1941
So Ends Our Night
February 27, 1941
Next Time We Love
January 30, 1936
Appointment for Love
October 31, 1941
Acting19
- 1987James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
- 1961Hollywood: The Selznick Years as Self - Actress 'Rebecca' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1950No Sad Songs for Me as Mary Scott
- 1943Cry 'Havoc' as Lieutenant Smith
- 1942Joan Crawford's Home Movies as Self
- 1941Appointment for Love as Jane Alexander
- 1941So Ends Our Night as Ruth Holland
- 1941Back Street as Ray Smith
- 1940The Mortal Storm as Freya Roth
- 1940