Helen Hayes

Her play Coquette closed when she became ill during her pregnancy with Mary MacArthur; the producer tried to get out of paying the actors severance citing Helen's child as "An Act of God."

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A Family Upside Down

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Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate

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Female Instinct

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Murder Is Easy

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Murder with Mirrors

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Victory at Entebbe

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Candleshoe 1977 -Lady St. Edmund

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One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing 1975 -Hettie

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Herbie Rides Again 1974 -Mrs. Steinmetz

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Airport 1970 -Ada Quonsett

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Anastasia 1956 -Empress Dowager Marie Fedorovna

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Main Street to Broadway 1953 -Herself

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A Farewell to Arms 1932 -Catherine Barkley

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Maxwell Anderson - Lost In the Stars

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Murder Is Easy -Lavinia Fullerton

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Murder With Mirrors -Miss Jane Marple

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My Son, John -Lucille Jefferson

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Night Flight -Mme. Fabian

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Alice's World

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Highway to Heaven: Hello and Farewell

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Hopper's Silence

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Stage Door Canteen

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The Devil Made Me Do It

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The Sin of Madelon Claudet -Madelon Claudet

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The Snoop Sisters: Female Instinct -Ernesta Snoop

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The Son-Daughter -Lien Wha

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The Third Man on the Mountain -Tourist

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The White Sister -Angela Chiaromonte

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Vanessa, Her Love Story -Vanessa

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Victory at Entebbe -Mrs. Wise

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What Every Woman Knows -Maggie Wylie

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Another Language -Stella Hallam

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Arrowsmith -Leora Arrowsmith

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Black Day for Bluebeard

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Corpse and Robbers

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Crime Without Passion -Woman in Hotel Lobby

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Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate -Sophie Curtis

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Fear Is a Free Throw

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A Caribbean Mystery -Miss Marple

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A Family Upside Down -Emma Long

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Highlights

Nicknamed "First Lady of the American Theater."

There is a hospital, a New York City theater, and an award named in her honor.

Her play Coquette closed when she became ill during her pregnancy with Mary MacArthur; the producer tried to get out of paying the actors severance citing Helen's child as "An Act of God."

Her debut film was The Sin of Madelon Claudet, for which she won a Best Actress Oscar.