Margaret Sullavan
Known for ActingBorn 1909-05-16 — died 1960-01-01Norfolk, 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.
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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
1940 · as Klara Novak
Back Street
1941 · as Ray Smith
The Good Fairy
1935 · as Luisa
The Mortal Storm
1940 · as Freya Roth
Three Comrades
1938 · as Patricia Hollmann
The Shopworn Angel
1938 · as Daisy Heath
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987 · as Self (archive footage)
Appointment for Love
1941 · as Jane Alexander
The Shining Hour
1938 · as Judy Linden
Only Yesterday
1933 · as Mary Lane
Cry 'Havoc'
1943 · as Lieutenant Smith
So Red the Rose
1935 · as Valette Bedford
No Sad Songs for Me
1950 · as Mary Scott
Little Man, What Now?
1934 · as Lammchen
Next Time We Love
1936 · as Cicely Hunt Tyler
So Ends Our Night
1941 · as Ruth Holland
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961 · as Self - Actress 'Rebecca' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joan Crawford's Home Movies
1942 · as Self