Margaret Sullavan
Actor
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.
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Filmography
The Mortal Storm
as Freya Roth 1940
Three Comrades
as Patricia Hollmann 1938
The Good Fairy
as Luisa 1935
The Shining Hour
as Judy Linden 1938
The Shopworn Angel
as Daisy Heath 1938
Cry 'Havoc'
as Lieutenant Smith 1943
Little Man, What Now?
as Lammchen 1934
Back Street
as Ray Smith 1941
So Ends Our Night
as Ruth Holland 1941
Next Time We Love
as Cicely Hunt Tyler 1936
Appointment for Love
as Jane Alexander 1941
No Sad Songs for Me
as Mary Scott 1950
Only Yesterday
as Mary Lane 1933
The Moon's Our Home
as Cherry Chester / Sarah Brown 1936
So Red the Rose
as Valette Bedford 1935
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage) 1987