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Margaret Sullavan
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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 ov…
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Margaret Sullavan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Margaret Sullavan's Filmography
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as Self - Actress 'Rebecca' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
No Sad Songs for Me
as Mary Scott
Cry 'Havoc'
as Lieutenant Smith
Joan Crawford's Home Movies
as Self
Appointment for Love
as Jane Alexander
So Ends Our Night
as Ruth Holland
Back Street
as Ray Smith
The Mortal Storm
as Freya Roth
The Shop Around the Corner
as Klara Novak
The Shining Hour
as Judy Linden
The Shopworn Angel
as Daisy Heath
Three Comrades
as Patricia Hollmann
The Moon's Our Home
as Cherry Chester / Sarah Brown
Next Time We Love
as Cicely Hunt Tyler
So Red the Rose
as Valette Bedford
The Good Fairy
as Luisa
Little Man, What Now?
as Lammchen
Only Yesterday
as Mary Lane