Margaret Sullavan
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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Acting
Movie
The Shop Around the Corner
as Klara Novak
1940
Movie
The Mortal Storm
as Freya Roth
1940
Movie
Three Comrades
as Patricia Hollmann
1938
Movie
The Good Fairy
as Luisa
1935
TV
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
TV
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
Movie
The Shining Hour
as Judy Linden
1938
Movie
The Shopworn Angel
as Daisy Heath
1938
Movie
Little Man, What Now?
as Lammchen
1934
Movie
Cry 'Havoc'
as Lieutenant Smith
1943
Movie
Back Street
as Ray Smith
1941
Movie
So Ends Our Night
as Ruth Holland
1941
TV
Studio One
as Janet Layton Willson
1948
Movie
Next Time We Love
as Cicely Hunt Tyler
1936
Movie
Appointment for Love
as Jane Alexander
1941
Movie
No Sad Songs for Me
as Mary Scott
1950
Movie
Only Yesterday
as Mary Lane
1933
Movie
The Moon's Our Home
as Cherry Chester / Sarah Brown
1936
TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Movie
So Red the Rose
as Valette Bedford
1935
Movie
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
1987
Movie
Joan Crawford's Home Movies
as Self
1942