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Margaret Sullavan

Margaret Sullavan

Actor · 1909 – 1960 · Norfolk, Virginia, USA

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.

Movies18

  • Movie8.1
  • Movie6.3

    So Ends Our Night

    1941 · 13 votes

  • Movie7.3

    The Mortal Storm

    1940 · 101 votes

  • Movie6.5
  • Movie4.4
  • Movie6.7

    The Shining Hour

    1938 · 22 votes

  • Movie6.3

    No Sad Songs for Me

    1950 · 8 votes

  • Movie6.8

    The Shopworn Angel

    1938 · 21 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Next Time We Love

    1936 · 12 votes

  • Movie7.1

    The Good Fairy

    1935 · 35 votes

  • Movie7.8

    So Red the Rose

    1935 · 4 votes

  • Movie7.3

    Three Comrades

    1938 · 38 votes

  • Movie7.3

    Back Street

    1941 · 13 votes

  • Movie6.9

    The Moon's Our Home

    1936 · 5 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Cry 'Havoc'

    1943 · 15 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Little Man, What Now?

    1934 · 16 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Only Yesterday

    1933 · 7 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Appointment for Love

    1941 · 9 votes

Series4

  • TV7.0

    What's My Line?

    1950 · 29 votes

  • TV5.4

    Studio One

    1948 · 13 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    1948 · 23 votes

  • TV7.2