Helen Hayes - Stage appearances, Filmography, Television Work

Stage and film actress, born in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. Best known in roles that combined apparent pliability with inner steel, she made her debut at the age of five. In the 1920s she seemed type-cast as a flapper, but she soon graduated to more substantial roles such as Cleopatra in Caesar and Cleopatra (1925). In 1928 she married playwright Charles MacArthur. She won an Academy Award for the 1932 film The Sin of Madelon Claudet, but her most famous role was in Laurence Housman's Victoria Regina (1935), where she played the queen as she aged from a young woman to an elderly widow. Her longest New York run was Happy Birthday (1946). After 1958 she performed mainly in revivals in the USA and Europe, and in 1964 she formed the Helen Hayes Repertory Company to sponsor Shakespeare readings in universities. She officially retired from the stage in 1970 after playing Veta Louise Simmons in Harvey.

Helen Hayes
from the film Stage Door Canteen (1943)
Born	October 10, 1900 Washington, D.C.
Died	March, 1993 Nyack, New York

Helen Hayes (October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress whose successful and award-winning career spanned almost 70 years. Her sound film debut was The Sin of Madelon Claudet, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She followed that with starring roles in Arrowsmith (with Myrna Loy), A Farewell to Arms (with actor Gary Cooper whom Hayes admitted to finding extremely attractive), The White Sister, What Every Woman Knows (a reprise from her Broadway hit), and Vanessa: Her Love Story. (at age 73)

Stage appearances

Miss Hawke's May Ball (1905) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1905) Babe in the Woods (1908) Jack the Giant Killer (1909) A Royal Family (1909) Children's Dancing Kerrness (1909) The Prince Chap (1909) A Poor Relation (1909) Old Dutch (1909) The Summer Widowers (1910) The Barrier (1911) Little Lord Fauntleroy (1911) The Never Homes (1911) The Seven Sisters (1911) Mary Jane's Pa (1911) The June Bride (1912) The Girl with Green Eyes (1913) His House in Order (1913) A Royal Family (1913) The Prince Chap (1913) The Prince and the Pauper (1913) The Prodigal Husband (1914) The Dummy (1916) On Trial (1916) It Pays to Advertise (1917) Romance (1917) Just a Woman (1917) Mile-a-Minute Kendall (1917) Rich Man, Poor Man (1917) Alma, Where Do You Live? (1917) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1917) Within the Law (1917) Pollyanna (1917) Penrod (1918) Dear Brutus (1918) On the Hiring Line (1919) Clarence (1919) The Golden Age (1919) Báb (1920) The Wren (1921) The Golden Days (1921) To the Ladies (1922) No Siree!: An Anonymous Entertaiment by the Vicious Circus of the Hotel Algonquin (1922) Lonely Lee (1923) We Moderns (1924) The Dragon (1924) She Stoops to Conquer (1924) Dancing Mothers (1924) Quarantine (1924) Caesar and Cleopatra (1925) The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1925) Young Blood (1925) What Every Woman Knows (1926) Coquette (1927) Coquette (1928) (London version) Mr. Gilhooley (1930) Petticoat Influence (1930) The Good Fairy (1931) Mary of Scotland (1933) Caesar and Cleopatra (1935) Victoria Regina (1935) Victoria Regina (1936) (revival) The Merchant of Venice (1938) What Every Woman Knows (1938) Victoria Regina (1938) (revival) Ladies and Gentleman (1939) Twelfth Night (1940) Candle in the Wind (1941) Harriet (1943) Alice-Sit-By-The-Fire (1946) Happy Birthday (1946) The Glass Menagerie (1948) Good Housekeeping (1949) The Wisteria Trees (1950) Mrs. McThing (1952) Gentleman, The Queens (1955) The Skin of Our Teeth (1955) Lovers, Villans and Fools (1956) The Glass Menagerie (1956) Time Remembered (1957) A Adventure (1958) Mid-Summer (1958) A Touch of the Poet (1958) The Cherry Orchard (1960) The Chalk Garden (1960) Shakespeare Revisited: A Program for Two Players (1962) Good Morning, Miss Dove (1964) The White House (1964) The Circle (1966) The School for Scandal (1966) Right You Are If You Think You Are (1966) We Comrades Three (1966) You Can't Take It With You (1966) The Show-Off (1967) The Show-Off (1968) (return engagement) The Front Page (1969) Harvey (1970) Long Day's Journey Into Night (1971)

Filmography

The Weavers of Life (1917) Babs (1920) The Dancing Town (1928) (short subject) The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) Arrowsmith (1931) A Farewell to Arms (1932) The Son-Daughter (1932) The White Sister (1933) Another Language (1933) Night Flight (1933) Crime Without Passion (1934) What Every Woman Knows (1934) Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935) Hollywood Goes to Town (1938) (short subject) Stage Door Canteen (1943) My Son John (1952) Main Street to Broadway (1953) Anastasia (1956) Third Man on the Mountain (1959) The Challenge of Ideas (1961) (short subject) (narrator) Airport (1970) Herbie Rides Again (1974) One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975) Candleshoe (1977)

Preceded by: Goldie Hawn for Cactus Flower	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 1970 for Airport	Succeeded by: Cloris Leachman for The Last Picture Show
Preceded by: Marie Dressler for Min and Bill	Academy Award for Best Actress 1932 for The Sin of Madelon Claudet	Succeeded by: Katharine Hepburn for Morning Glory

Television Work

The Cherry Orchard (1959) Arsenic and Old Lace (1969) The Front Page (1970) (narrator) Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1971) Harvey (1972) The Snoop Sisters (1973-1974) Black Day for Bluebeard (1974) Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (1976) (miniseries) Victory at Entebbe (1976) A Family Upside Down (1978) Murder is Easy (1982) A Caribbean Mystery (1983) Murder with Mirrors (1985)