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
Herbie Rides Again (1974)
as Mrs. Steinmetz
A Farewell to Arms (1932)
as Catherine Barkley
Airport (1970)
as Ada Quonsett
Night of 100 Stars (1982)
as Self
The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)
as Herself - Participant
Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
as Hotel guest (uncredited)
Candleshoe (1977)
as Lady St. Edmund
Night of 100 Stars III (1990)
as Self
Murder Is Easy (1982)
as Lavinia Fullerton
Anastasia (1956)
as Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
as Self (archive footage)
Bill Cosby: Walking Free (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Victory at Entebbe (1976)
as Etta Grossman-Wise
Murder with Mirrors (1985)
as Miss Jane Marple
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1971)
as Sophie Tate Curtis
Airports (2025)
Actor
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975)
as Hettie
What Every Woman Knows (1934)
as Maggie Wylie
Arsenic and Old Lace (1969)
as Abby Brewster
Stage Door Canteen (1943)
as Helen Hayes
The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
as Madelon Claudet
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Goes to Town (1938)
as Self
All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman (1979)
as Self
Main Street to Broadway (1953)
as Self
Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935)
as Vanessa Paris
A Caribbean Mystery (1983)
as Miss Jane Marple
Harvey (1972)
as Veta Louise Simmons
A Family Upside Down (1978)
as Emma Long
The Son-Daughter (1932)
as Lian Wha
Arrowsmith (1931)
as Leora Tozer Arrowsmith
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero (1998)
as Self (archive footage)
The Female Instinct (1972)
as Ernesta Snoop
Four Women in Black (1957)
as Sister Theresa
Night Flight (1933)
as Madame Fabian
The Weavers of Life (1917)
as Peggy
The White Sister (1933)
as Angela Chiaromonte
The Dancing Town (1928)
as Olive Pepperall
A.N.T.A. Album of 1955 (1955)
as Self
Crime Without Passion (1934)
as Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
My Son John (1952)
as Lucille Jefferson
The Challenge of Ideas (1961)
as Narrator
Another Language (1933)
as Stella Hallam
Riders of the Range (1923)
as Inez
The Bat (1960)
as Cornelia Van Gorder
Hopper's Silence (1981)
as Herself
Divine Mercy No Escape (1994)
Actor