Actor
Margaret Sullavan
Born May 16, 1909 in Norfolk, Virginia, USADied January 1, 196016 films
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.
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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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First watchThe Shop Around the Corner19408.1as Klara NovakTwo employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.View filmEssential films
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Filmography
16 films as actor- 1950No Sad Songs for MeMary Scott
- 1943Cry 'Havoc'Lieutenant Smith
- 1941Appointment for LoveJane Alexander
- 1941So Ends Our NightRuth Holland
- 1941Back StreetRay Smith
- 1940The Mortal StormFreya Roth
- 1940The Shop Around the CornerKlara Novak
- 1938The Shining HourJudy Linden
- 1938The Shopworn AngelDaisy Heath
- 1938Three ComradesPatricia Hollmann
- 1936The Moon's Our HomeCherry Chester / Sarah Brown
- 1936Next Time We LoveCicely Hunt Tyler
- 1935So Red the RoseValette Bedford
- 1935The Good FairyLuisa
- 1934Little Man, What Now?Lammchen
- 1933Only YesterdayMary Lane