Overview
Born October 10, 1900 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Died March 17, 1993 in Nyack, New York, USA (congestive heart failure)
Birth Name Helen Hayes Brown
Nickname First Lady of the American Theater
Height 5' (1.52 m)
Known as "The First woman of the American Theater", Helen Hayes had an unbelievable profession in front of an audience and in movies and TV that crossed more than eighty years. Hayes was brought into the world in Washington, D.C., to Catherine Estelle "Essie" Hayes, an entertainer who worked in travel agencies, and Francis van Arnum Brown, an agent and sales rep. Her maternal grandparents were Irish. A youngster entertainer in the principal ten years of the twentieth century, when she turned twenty out of 1920 she was well headed to a milestone profession on the American stage, turning out to be maybe the best female star of the theater during the 1930s and 1940s. She made a small bunch of dispersed movies during the quiet time and in 1931 was endorsed to MGM with extraordinary flourish to start a vocation featuring in films. Her initial three movies, Arrowsmith (1931), The Lullaby (1931), and A Farewell to Arms (1932), were extraordinary hits and she would win the 1932 Oscar for Best Actress for her work in Madelon Claudet. Unfortunately, her absence of screen allure neutralized her turning into a film industry star during the brilliant period of Hollywood, and her resulting films were frequently not generally welcomed by pundits. Inside four years she had deserted the screen and gotten back to the stage for the best accomplishment of her profession, "Victoria Regina", which ran for quite some time beginning in 1935. Helen Hayes got back to movies with a couple of included jobs in 1950s films and as often as possible showed up on TV. In 1970, she made a screen rebound in Airport (1970), a job initially proposed to Claudette Colbert, who declined it, acquiring Hayes her subsequent Oscar, this time for Best Supporting Actress. Helen Hayes resigned from the stage in 1971 however appreciated gigantic acclaim and prominence over the course of the following fifteen years with numerous jobs in movies and TV creations, resigning in 1985 in the wake of featuring in the TV film Agatha Christie's Murder with Mirrors (1985).
Resided for a long time in a noteworthy house in Nyack, New York called "Chunk of change." Located at 235 North Broadway, she routinely offered voyages through her very much kept up with nurseries to the neighborhood garden clubs. The house was bought by TV character and entertainer Rosie O'Donnell, a couple of years after her passing, from her enduring child, entertainer James MacArthur.
Gotten the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award in 1985.
Pre-famous US stage entertainer. She was viewed as the First Lady of the American Theater.
Entombed at Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, New York, USA.
Mother of stage entertainer Mary MacArthur, who passed on in 1949 at nineteen years old, and supportive mother of entertainer James MacArthur.
Contract individual from the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1973.
She had a profession than traversed north of 80 years starting as a youngster entertainer at age 5.
The lights of Broadway were darkened briefly at 8:00 p.m. on the day she passed on.
Hayes made incessant outings to the clinic attributable to asthma assaults exasperated by behind the stage dust. At the point when asthma finished her dramatic profession, she focused on movies and TV. She likewise composed books and raised assets for associations that add to the battle against asthma.
In 1958, she turned into the second entertainer to win the Triple Crown of Acting. Oscars: Best Actress, The Lullaby (1931) and Best Supporting Actress, Airport (1970), Tony: Best Actress-Play, "Time Remembered" (1958), and Emmy: Best Actress of 1953.
Won three Tony Awards, two Best Actress (Dramatic) grants - - one out of 1947 for "Blissful Birthday," an honor that was imparted to Ingrid Bergman for "Joan of Lorraine," one more in 1958, for "Time Remembered" - - and a third, Special Tony Award in 1980, in particular: The Lawrence Langer Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theater. She was additionally designated as Best Actress (Dramatic) in 1970 for a recovery of "Harvey."
Is one of a couple of entertainers to win an Oscar for a supporting job in the wake of winning an Oscar for a main job.
Was an ally of the Republican Party, going to every one of the shows up until her passing.
Hayes, José Ferrer, Fredric March, Ingrid Bergman, Arthur Miller, Patricia Neal, Elia Kazan, and Agnes de Mille were the victors at the main Tony Award function, which was held in 1947.
Fifth entertainer to win Best Actress Oscar and the first for playing a whore, in The Lullaby (1931), her first talkie.
She was granted the American National Medal of the Arts in 1988 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.
In spite of the fact that she played Ingrid Bergman's grandma in Anastasia (1956), she was under fifteen years more seasoned than she.
The Helen Hayes Awards are presented yearly to commendable dramatic creations in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia. She was brought into the world in Washington D.C. what's more played her first acting part as a youngster there.
Is one of just seven entertainers who have a 2-0 winning record when assigned for an acting Oscar, her two successes for The Lullaby (1931) and Airport (1970). The others are Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937); Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind (1939) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951); Kevin Spacey for The Usual Suspects (1995) and American Beauty (1999); Hilary Swank for Boys Don't Cry (1999) and Million Dollar Baby (2004); Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Django Unchained (2012); and Mahershala Ali for Moonlight (2016) and Green Book (2018).
She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: for movies at 6258 Hollywood Boulevard, and for radio at 6549 Hollywood Boulevard.
Two Broadway theaters were named after her. The first, at 210 W. 46th Street, was named after Hayes in 1955. After it was wrecked in 1982, another theater, at 240 W. 44th Street, was renamed in Hayes' honor.
Her resemblance shows up on a nondenominated USA memorial postage stamp gave in her distinction on 25 April 2011. Cost on day of issue was 44¢.
One of just 15 people who are an "EGOT", significance having gotten no less than one of all of the four significant diversion grants: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony, seriously. Different beneficiaries are Richard Rodgers, Helen Hayes, Rita Moreno, John Gielgud, Audrey Hepburn, Marvin Hamlisch, Jonathan Tunick, Mel Brooks, Mike Nichols, Whoopi Goldberg, Scott Rudin, Robert Lopez, John Legend, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Six others, including Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, James Earl Jones, Alan Menken, Harry Belafonte, and Quincy Jones have won three of the four honors seriously and got a privileged fourth and consequently don't, rigorously talking, qualify.
Was the fifth entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for The Lullaby (1931) at The fifth Academy Awards on November 18, 1932.
At 90 years old, as a visitor on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) when Carson inquired as to whether she would return for her 100th birthday celebration, she shyly brought down her eyes and delicately said, "Good gracious, I don't think so." She kicked the bucket in 1993, matured 92.
Brought forth her main natural kid at age 29 by spouse, Charles MacArthur: girl Mary MacArthur (February 16, 1930-September 22, 1949), who passed on from polio at age 19. Hayes additionally had an embraced child, James MacArthur.
Girl of Francis van Arnum Brown (1874-1940) and Catherine Estelle Hayes (1877-1953).
Beneficiary of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation in 1986.
Was dedicated to embraced child, James, who discontinuously went to St. Anne's in Nyack, N.Y..
Is one of 12 entertainers who won the Best Actress Oscar for playing a person who is pregnant eventually during the film; hers being for The Lullaby (1931). The others are Luise Rainer for The Good Earth (1937), Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind (1939), Ginger Rogers for Kitty Foyle (1940), Olivia de Havilland for To Each His Own (1946), Jane Wyman for Johnny Belinda (1948), Anna Magnani for The Rose Tattoo (1955), Julie Christie for Darling (1965), Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968), Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972), Sissy Spacek for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) and Frances McDormand for Fargo (1996).
She was companions with Joan Crawford yet in addition composed that she was oppressive to her kids in her diary "My Life in Three Acts" (1990) : "Joan was not exactly levelheaded in her bringing up of youngsters. You may say she was severe or harsh. In any case, awful is likely the right word".
Was in three Oscar Best Picture chosen people: Arrowsmith (1931), A Farewell to Arms (1932) and Airport (1970).
Turned into the primary entertainer to have Academy Award wins for both Best Actress (for The Lullaby (1931)) and Best Supporting Actress (for Airport (1970)).
List of Helen Hayes Movies
- Glitter (TV Series)
- Agatha Christie's Murder with Mirrors (TV Movie)
- Highway to Heaven (TV Series)
- A Caribbean Mystery (TV Movie)
- Love, Sidney (TV Series)
- Murder Is Easy (TV Movie)
- The Love Boat (TV Series)
- A Family Upside Down (TV Movie)
- Candleshoe
- Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (TV Mini Series)
- Victory at Entebbe (TV Movie)
- Hawaii Five-O (TV Series)
- One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
- The Snoop Sisters (TV Series)
- Herbie Rides Again
- Circle of Fear (TV Series)
- Harvey (TV Movie)
- Here's Lucy (TV Series)
- Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (TV Movie)
- NET Playhouse (TV Series)
- Airport
- The Front Page (TV Movie)
- Arsenic and Old Lace (TV Movie)
- Tarzan (TV Series)
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