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Margaret Sullavan
Norfolk, 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 dire…
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Margaret Sullavan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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1987
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1961
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Movie Self - Actress 'Rebecca' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV show
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1950
No Sad Songs for Me
Movie Mary Scott
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1950
What's My Line?
TV show Self
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1948
Studio One
TV show Janet Layton Willson
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1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV show Self
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1943
Cry 'Havoc'
Movie Lieutenant Smith
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1942
Joan Crawford's Home Movies
Movie Self
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1941
Appointment for Love
Movie Jane Alexander
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1941
So Ends Our Night
Movie Ruth Holland
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1941
Back Street
Movie Ray Smith
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1940
The Mortal Storm
Movie Freya Roth
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1940
The Shop Around the Corner
Movie Klara Novak
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1938
The Shining Hour
Movie Judy Linden
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1938
The Shopworn Angel
Movie Daisy Heath
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1938
Three Comrades
Movie Patricia Hollmann
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1936
The Moon's Our Home
Movie Cherry Chester / Sarah Brown
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1936
Next Time We Love
Movie Cicely Hunt Tyler
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1935
So Red the Rose
Movie Valette Bedford
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1935
The Good Fairy
Movie Luisa
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1934
Little Man, What Now?
Movie Lammchen
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1933
Only Yesterday
Movie Mary Lane
