
Margaret Sullavan
Highest Rated: 100% The Mortal Storm (1940)
Lowest Rated: 86% The Good Fairy (1935)
Birthday: May 16, 1909
Birthplace: Norfolk, Virginia, USA
A petite brunette with large eyes dominating her small, attractively angular face, Margaret Sullavan made her stage debut with the University Players (which included James Stewart and Henry Fonda) in Falmouth, MA, and entered films in 1933. With her husky voice and unique, magnetic charm Sullavan was an immediate success, proving herself airy and delightful in comedy ("The Good Fairy" 1935, "The Shop Around the Corner" 1939) and wistful and poignant in drama ("Only Yesterday," her 1933 debut; "Three Comrades" 1938). Her unstable temperament and her critical disdain for the Hollywood establishment, however, significantly reduced her screen output, facilitating her many returns to Broadway. She was married to Henry Fonda, William Wyler and producer-agent Leland Hayward. Sullavan suffered a number of mental health problems (including severe depression brought on partly by increasing deafness in middle age) and died of a drug overdose. A family memoir, "Haywire" (1977), was written by her daughter, Brooke Hayward.




Photos
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | 50% | No Sad Songs for Me | Mary Scott (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cry Havoc | Lieutenant Smith (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Back Street | Ray Smith (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | 100% | So Ends Our Night | Ruth Holland (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Appointment for Love | Dr. Jane Alexander (Character) | - | 1941 |
100% | 85% | The Mortal Storm | Freya Roth (Character) | - | 1940 |
100% | 91% | The Shop Around the Corner | Klara Novak (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | 39% | The Shining Hour | Judy Linden (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | 79% | The Shopworn Angel | Daisy Heath (Character) | - | 1938 |
100% | 65% | Three Comrades | Patricia Hollmann (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | 33% | The Moon's Our Home |
Cherry Chester/ |
- | 1936 |
No Score Yet | 45% | Next Time We Love | Cicely Tyler (Character) | - | 1935 |
86% | 85% | The Good Fairy | Luisa "Lu" Ginglebuscher (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | 78% | So Red the Rose | Valette Bedford (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | 77% | Little Man, What Now? | Emma 'Lammchen' Pinneberg (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | 71% | Only Yesterday | Mary Lane (Character) | - | 1933 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Producers' Showcase | Unknown (Character) | 1954 |