Margaret Sullavan

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Known ForActing
Born1909-05-16
BirthplaceNorfolk, Virginia, USA

Margaret Sullavan

Acting

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

Acting (19)

1987
James Stewart: A Wonderful Lifeas Self (archive footage)
6.5
1961
Hollywood: The Selznick Yearsas Self - Actress 'Rebecca' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
4.4
1950
No Sad Songs for Meas Mary Scott
6.3
1943
Cry 'Havoc'as Lieutenant Smith
6.5
1941
Appointment for Loveas Jane Alexander
5.8
1941
So Ends Our Nightas Ruth Holland
6.3
1941
Back Streetas Ray Smith
7.3
1940
The Mortal Stormas Freya Roth
7.3
1940
8.1
1938
The Shining Houras Judy Linden
6.7
1938
The Shopworn Angelas Daisy Heath
6.8
1938
Three Comradesas Patricia Hollmann
7.2
1936
The Moon's Our Homeas Cherry Chester / Sarah Brown
6.9
1936
Next Time We Loveas Cicely Hunt Tyler
6.4
1935
So Red the Roseas Valette Bedford
7.8
1935
7.1
1934
6.3
1933
Only Yesterdayas Mary Lane
7.1
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