Margaret Sullavan

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1909-05-16 (51 years old)

Deathday

1960-01-01

Place of Birth

Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Margaret Sullavan

Biography

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 perfo...

Acting

1940

The Mortal Storm

as Freya Roth

1940

1935

1943

Cry 'Havoc'

as Lieutenant Smith

1938

The Shopworn Angel

as Daisy Heath

1936

Next Time We Love

as Cicely Hunt Tyler

1936

The Moon's Our Home

as Cherry Chester / Sarah Brown

1938

Three Comrades

as Patricia Hollmann

1941

Back Street

as Ray Smith

1938

The Shining Hour

as Judy Linden

1933

Only Yesterday

as Mary Lane

1934

1950

No Sad Songs for Me

as Mary Scott

1941

So Ends Our Night

as Ruth Holland

1935

So Red the Rose

as Valette Bedford

1941

Appointment for Love

as Jane Alexander

1961

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as 'Rebecca' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)

1987

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

as Self (archive footage)

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