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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. The Shop Around the Corner (1940) — Klara Novak
2. The Mortal Storm (1940) — Freya Roth
3. Three Comrades (1938) — Patricia Hollmann
4. The Good Fairy (1935) — Luisa
5. What's My Line? (1950) — Self
6. The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) — Self
7. The Shining Hour (1938) — Judy Linden
8. The Shopworn Angel (1938) — Daisy Heath
9. Little Man, What Now? (1934) — Lammchen
10. Cry 'Havoc' (1943) — Lieutenant Smith
11. Back Street (1941) — Ray Smith
12. So Ends Our Night (1941) — Ruth Holland
13. Studio One (1948) — Janet Layton Willson
14. Next Time We Love (1936) — Cicely Hunt Tyler
15. Appointment for Love (1941) — Jane Alexander
16. Only Yesterday (1933) — Mary Lane
17. No Sad Songs for Me (1950) — Mary Scott
18. The Moon's Our Home (1936) — Cherry Chester / Sarah Brown
19. Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1961) — Self - Actress 'Rebecca' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
20. Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951)
21. So Red the Rose (1935) — Valette Bedford
22. James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1987) — Self (archive footage)
23. Joan Crawford's Home Movies (1942) — Self