Helen Hayes
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Helen Hayes was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of twelve people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986. In 1988 she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She is the namesake of the annual Helen Hayes Awards, which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in the greater Washington, D.C. area since 1984. Perhaps the ultimate respect to be paid to any actor by a producer - of having a theater christened in their name - became a reality for Ms. Hayes in 1955 when the former Fulton Theatre on 46th Street in New York City's Broadway theater district was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre. When that venue was torn down in 1982 (along with five other neighboring theaters), the operators of the Little Theatre, another standing theater two blocks away on 44th Street, renamed that house in her name, which it has retained ever since. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Hayes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Airport (1970)
as Ada Quonsett
Herbie Rides Again (1974)
as Mrs. Steinmetz
Anastasia (1956)
as Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
Candleshoe (1977)
as Lady St. Edmund
A Farewell to Arms (1932)
as Catherine Barkley
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
as Self (archive footage)
Victory at Entebbe (1976)
as Etta Grossman-Wise
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975)
as Hettie
The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)
as Herself - Participant
Stage Door Canteen (1943)
as Helen Hayes
Night of 100 Stars (1982)
as Self
Night Flight (1933)
as Madame Fabian
Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
as Hotel guest (uncredited)
Murder with Mirrors (1985)
as Miss Jane Marple
A Caribbean Mystery (1983)
as Miss Jane Marple
Harvey (1972)
as Veta Louise Simmons
Murder Is Easy (1982)
as Lavinia Fullerton
Night of 100 Stars III (1990)
as Self
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)
as Self (archive footage)
Airports (2025)
Actor
Arsenic and Old Lace (1969)
as Abby Brewster
Hollywood Goes to Town (1938)
as Self
The Dancing Town (1928)
as Olive Pepperall
Main Street to Broadway (1953)
as Self
The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
as Madelon Claudet
The Son-Daughter (1932)
as Lian Wha
The White Sister (1933)
as Angela Chiaromonte
The Weavers of Life (1917)
as Peggy
The Female Instinct (1972)
as Ernesta Snoop
Arrowsmith (1931)
as Leora Tozer Arrowsmith
All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman (1979)
as Self
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1971)
as Sophie Tate Curtis
My Son John (1952)
as Lucille Jefferson
Bill Cosby: Walking Free (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
What Every Woman Knows (1934)
as Maggie Wylie
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero (1998)
as Self (archive footage)
A Family Upside Down (1978)
as Emma Long
Crime Without Passion (1934)
as Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
Riders of the Range (1923)
as Inez
Another Language (1933)
as Stella Hallam
Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935)
as Vanessa Paris
Hopper's Silence (1981)
as Herself
Four Women in Black (1957)
as Sister Theresa
The Bat (1960)
as Cornelia Van Gorder
A.N.T.A. Album of 1955 (1955)
as Self
The Challenge of Ideas (1961)
as Narrator
Divine Mercy No Escape (1994)
Actor