Helen Hayes
Acting
Helen Hayes was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of twelve people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986. In 1988 she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She is the namesake of the annual Helen Hayes Awards, which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in the greater Washington, D.C. area since 1984. Perhaps the ultimate respect to be paid to any actor by a producer - of having a theater christened in their name - became a reality for Ms. Hayes in 1955 when the former Fulton Theatre on 46th Street in New York City's Broadway theater district was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre. When that venue was torn down in 1982 (along with five other neighboring theaters), the operators of the Little Theatre, another standing theater two blocks away on 44th Street, renamed that house in her name, which it has retained ever since.
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Helen Hayes
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Filmography of
Helen Hayes
... 2025
Self (archive footage)
... 2022
Self (archive footage)
... 1998
... 1994
... 1990
Herself - Participant
... 1987
Miss Jane Marple
... 1985
Miss Jane Marple
... 1983
Self
... 1982
Lavinia Fullerton
... 1982
Herself
... 1981
... 1979
Emma Long
... 1978
Lady St. Edmund
... 1977
Etta Grossman-Wise
... 1976
... 1975
Mrs. Steinmetz
... 1974
Ernesta Snoop
... 1972
Veta Louise Simmons
... 1972
Sophie Tate Curtis
... 1971
Ada Quonsett
... 1970
Abby Brewster
... 1969
Narrator
... 1961
Cornelia Van Gorder
... 1960
Hotel guest (uncredited)
... 1959
Sister Theresa
... 1957
Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
... 1956
... 1955
... 1953
Lucille Jefferson
... 1952
Helen Hayes
... 1943
Self (archive footage)
... 1940
... 1938
Vanessa Paris
... 1935
Maggie Wylie
... 1934
Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
... 1934
Madame Fabian
... 1933
Stella Hallam
... 1933
Angela Chiaromonte
... 1933
Lian Wha
... 1932
Catherine Barkley
... 1932
Leora Tozer Arrowsmith
... 1931
Madelon Claudet
... 1931
Olive Pepperall
... 1928
Inez
... 1923
Peggy
... 1917