Margaret Sullavan

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.

Most Known For

What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest

Studio One

as Janet Layton Willson

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Back Street

as Ray Smith

So Red the Rose

as Valette Bedford

The Shop Around the Corner

as Klara Novak

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

The Mortal Storm

as Freya Roth

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

as Self (archive footage)

Only Yesterday

as Mary Lane

So Ends Our Night

as Ruth Holland

The Good Fairy

as Luisa

Three Comrades

as Patricia Hollmann

Cry 'Havoc'

as Lieutenant Smith

The Shining Hour

as Judy Linden

The Shopworn Angel

as Daisy Heath

Appointment for Love

as Jane Alexander

The Moon's Our Home

as Cherry Chester / Sarah Brown

Little Man, What Now?

as Lammchen

Next Time We Love

as Cicely Hunt Tyler