Margaret Sullavan

Margaret Sullavan

1909-05-16 – 1960-01-01 (age 50) Norfolk, Virginia, USA
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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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Known For

The Shop Around the Corner
The Shop Around the Corner

1940

as Klara Novak

Appointment for Love
Appointment for Love

1941

as Jane Alexander

Only Yesterday
Only Yesterday

1933

as Mary Lane

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

1987

as Self (archive footage)

The Mortal Storm
The Mortal Storm

1940

as Freya Roth

So Red the Rose
So Red the Rose

1935

as Valette Bedford

The Shining Hour
The Shining Hour

1938

as Judy Linden

Joan Crawford's Home Movies
Cry 'Havoc'
Cry 'Havoc'

1943

as Lieutenant Smith

The Good Fairy
The Good Fairy

1935

as Luisa

So Ends Our Night
So Ends Our Night

1941

as Ruth Holland

Back Street
Back Street

1941

as Ray Smith

The Shopworn Angel
The Shopworn Angel

1938

as Daisy Heath

Three Comrades
Three Comrades

1938

as Patricia Hollmann

Next Time We Love
Next Time We Love

1936

as Cicely Hunt Tyler

No Sad Songs for Me
No Sad Songs for Me

1950

as Mary Scott

Little Man, What Now?
Little Man, What Now?

1934

as Lammchen

The Moon's Our Home
The Moon's Our Home

1936

as Cherry Chester / Sarah Brown