Margaret Sullavan

Acting

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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Fullname:

Margaret Sullavan

Date of Birth:

1909-05-16

Country:

Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Media of

Margaret Sullavan

Photos (21)

Filmography of

Margaret Sullavan

Found 18 movies in total

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Self (archive footage)

... 1987

No Sad Songs for Me

Mary Scott

... 1950

Cry 'Havoc'

Lieutenant Smith

... 1943

Appointment for Love

Jane Alexander

... 1941

So Ends Our Night

Ruth Holland

... 1941

Back Street

Ray Smith

... 1941

The Mortal Storm

Freya Roth

... 1940

... 1940

The Shining Hour

Judy Linden

... 1938

The Shopworn Angel

Daisy Heath

... 1938

Three Comrades

Patricia Hollmann

... 1938

The Moon's Our Home

Cherry Chester / Sarah Brown

... 1936

Next Time We Love

Cicely Hunt Tyler

... 1936

So Red the Rose

Valette Bedford

... 1935

... 1935

... 1934

Only Yesterday

Mary Lane

... 1933