
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

The Female Instinct (1972)
as Ernesta Snoop

The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)
as Herself - Participant

Anastasia (1956)
as Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna

Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
as Hotel guest (uncredited)

Harvey (1972)
as Veta Louise Simmons

Night of 100 Stars III (1990)
as Self

Murder with Mirrors (1985)
as Miss Jane Marple
Riders of the Range (1923)
as Inez

Airports (2025)
Actor

Four Women in Black (1957)
as Sister Theresa

Victory at Entebbe (1976)
as Etta Grossman-Wise

Arsenic and Old Lace (1969)
as Abby Brewster

A Farewell to Arms (1932)
as Catherine Barkley

Night of 100 Stars (1982)
as Self

The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
as Madelon Claudet

The Son-Daughter (1932)
as Lian Wha

Night Flight (1933)
as Madame Fabian

Bill Cosby: Walking Free (2022)
as Self (archive footage)

Murder Is Easy (1982)
as Lavinia Fullerton

Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1971)
as Sophie Tate Curtis

Stage Door Canteen (1943)
as Helen Hayes

A Caribbean Mystery (1983)
as Miss Jane Marple

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975)
as Hettie

Candleshoe (1977)
as Lady St. Edmund

The Dancing Town (1928)
as Olive Pepperall

What Every Woman Knows (1934)
as Maggie Wylie

Arrowsmith (1931)
as Leora Tozer Arrowsmith

Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero (1998)
as Self (archive footage)

Main Street to Broadway (1953)
as Self

Hollywood Goes to Town (1938)
as Self

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
as Self (archive footage)

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)
as Self (archive footage)

The Weavers of Life (1917)
as Peggy

My Son John (1952)
as Lucille Jefferson

Crime Without Passion (1934)
as Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)

A Family Upside Down (1978)
as Emma Long

The White Sister (1933)
as Angela Chiaromonte

The Bat (1960)
as Cornelia Van Gorder

Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935)
as Vanessa Paris

All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman (1979)
as Self

A.N.T.A. Album of 1955 (1955)
as Self
The Challenge of Ideas (1961)
as Narrator

Another Language (1933)
as Stella Hallam

Hopper's Silence (1981)
as Herself

Divine Mercy No Escape (1994)
Actor





