Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes | |
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Helen Hayes | |
Born |
Helen Hayes Brown October 10, 1900 Washington, D.C. |
Died |
March 17, 1993 92) Nyack, New York | (aged
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1905–1987 |
Spouse(s) |
John Swanson (1926-1928) Charles MacArthur (1928–1956; his death) |
Children |
Mary MacArthur (1930–1949) James MacArthur (1937–2010) (adopted) |
Helen Hayes MacArthur (née Brown) (October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993) was an American actress whose career spanned almost 80 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of American Theatre" and was one of 12 people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award (an EGOT). Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986.[1]
In 1988, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. The annual Helen Hayes Awards, which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in the greater Washington, DC area since 1984, are her namesake. In 1955, 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, the nearby Little Theatre was renamed in her honor. Helen Hayes is regarded as one of the Greatest Leading Ladies of the 20th century theatre.[2]
Early life
Helen Hayes was born in Washington, DC, on October 10, 1900. Her mother, Catherine Estelle (née Hayes), or Essie, was an aspiring actress who worked in touring companies.[3][4] Her father, Francis van Arnum Brown, worked at a number of jobs, including as a clerk at the Washington Patent Office and as a manager and salesman for a wholesale butcher.[4][5] Hayes' Irish Catholic maternal grandparents emigrated from Ireland during the Irish Potato Famine.[6]
Hayes began a stage career at an early age. She said her stage debut was as a five-year-old singer at Washington's Belasco Theatre (on Lafayette Square, across from the White House.)[7] By the age of ten, she had made a short film called Jean and the Calico Doll, but moved to Hollywood only when her husband, playwright Charles MacArthur, signed a Hollywood deal. Helen Hayes MacArthur, also known as Helen Brown in her early years, attended Dominican Academy's prestigious primary school, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side, from 1910 to 1912 during which she appeared in The Old Dutch, Little Lord Fauntleroy, as well as other performances. She attended the Academy of the Sacred Heart Convent in Washington and graduated in 1917.[8]
Career
Her sound film debut was The Sin of Madelon Claudet, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She followed that with starring roles in Arrowsmith (with Myrna Loy), A Farewell to Arms (with actor Gary Cooper, whom Hayes admitted to finding extremely attractive), The White Sister (opposite Clark Gable), What Every Woman Knows (a reprise from her Broadway hit) and Vanessa: Her Love Story. However, Hayes did not prefer that medium to the stage.
Hayes eventually returned to Broadway in 1935, where for three years she played the title role in the Gilbert Miller production of Victoria Regina, with Vincent Price as Prince Albert, first at the Broadhurst Theatre and later at the Martin Beck Theatre.
In 1951, she was involved with the Broadway revival of J.M. Barrie's play Mary Rose at the ANTA Playhouse.
In 1953, she was the first-ever recipient of the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre, repeating as the winner in 1969. She returned to Hollywood in the 1950s, and her film star began to rise. She starred in My Son John (1952) and Anastasia (1956), and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as an elderly stowaway in the disaster film Airport (1970). She followed that up with several roles in Disney films such as Herbie Rides Again, One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing and Candleshoe. Her performance in Anastasia was considered a comeback—she had suspended her career for several years due to the death of her daughter Mary, and her husband's failing health.
In 1955, the Fulton Theatre was renamed for her. However, business interests in the 1980s wished to raze that theatre and four others to construct a large hotel that included the Marquis Theatre. To accomplish razing this theatre and three others, as well as the Hotel Astor, the business interests received Hayes' consent to raze the theatre named for her, though she had no ownership interest in the buildings. Parts of the original Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway were used to construct the Shakespeare Center on the Upper Westside of Manhattan, which Hayes dedicated with Joseph Papp in 1982.[9] In 1983 the Little Theater on West 45th Street was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre in her honor, as was a theatre in Nyack, which has since been renamed the Riverspace-Arts Center. In early 2014, the site was refurbished and styled by interior designer Dawn Hershko and reopened as the Playhouse Market, a quaint restaurant and gourmet deli.
It is unclear when or by whom Hayes was called the "First Lady of the Theatre". Her friend, actress Katharine Cornell, also held that title, and each thought the other deserved it.[10][11] One critic said that Cornell played every queen as though she were a woman, whereas Hayes played every woman as though she were a queen.[10]
In 1982, with friend Lady Bird Johnson, she founded the National Wildflower Research Center, now the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas. The center protects and preserves North America's native plants and natural landscapes.[12]
The Helen Hayes Award for theater in the Washington, DC, area is named in her honor. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6220 Hollywood Blvd. Helen Hayes is also a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame.[13]
Personal life
Hayes was a Catholic[14][15] and a pro-business Republican who attended many Republican National Conventions (including the one held in New Orleans in 1988), but she was not as politically vocal as some others (e.g., Adolphe Menjou, Ginger Rogers, John Wayne, Ronald Reagan etc.) in the Hollywood community of that time.
Hayes wrote three memoirs: A Gift of Joy, On Reflection, and My Life in Three Acts. Some of the themes in these books include her return to Roman Catholicism (she had been denied communion from the Church for the length of her marriage to MacArthur, who was a divorced Protestant); and the death of her only daughter, Mary, who was an aspiring actress, from polio at the age of 19. Hayes's adopted son, James MacArthur, went on to a career in acting, starring in Hawaii Five-O on television. (Hayes herself guest-starred on a 1975 episode of Hawaii Five-0, playing the aunt of MacArthur's character.)
Hayes was hospitalized a number of times for her asthma condition, which was aggravated by stage dust, forcing her to retire from legitimate theater in 1971, at age 71.[16][17]
Her last Broadway show was a 1970 revival of Harvey, in which she co-starred with James Stewart. Clive Barnes wrote, "She epitomizes flustered charm almost as if it were a style of acting...She is one of those actors...where to watch how she is doing something is almost as pleasurable as what she is doing."[18] She spent most of her last years writing and raising money for organizations that fight asthma.
Philanthropy
Hayes was a generous donor of time and money to a number of causes and organizations, including the Riverside Shakespeare Company of New York City. Along with Mildred Natwick, she became a founding member of the company's Board of Advisors in 1981.[19] She was also on the board of directors for the Greater New York Council of the Girl Scouts of the USA during the early 1970s.
In 1982, Hayes dedicated Riverside's The Shakespeare Center with New York theatre producer, Joseph Papp,[20] and in 1985 returned to the New York stage in a benefit reading for the company with a reading of A Christmas Carol with the late Raul Julia, Len Cariou, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Carole Shelley, Celeste Holm and Harold Scott, directed by W. Stuart McDowell.[21] The next year Hayes performed a second benefit for the Riverside Shakespeare Company, this time at the Marquis Theatre, the construction of which had been made possible by the demolition of the Helen Hayes Theatre three years before. The production featured Rex Smith, Ossie Davis and F. Murray Abraham, produced by McDowell and directed by Robert Small, with Hayes narrating the performance.
Helen Hayes Hospital
According to her daughter-in-law, HB Mac Arthur, Hayes took the most pride, however, in her philanthropic work with Helen Hayes Rehabilitation Hospital located in West Haverstraw, NY. She was extremely proud of the strides the hospital made toward the rehabilitation of people with disabilities.
Hayes became involved with the hospital in the 1940s, and was named to the Board of Visitors in 1944. In 1974, the hospital was renamed in her honor. She served on the Helen Hayes Hospital Board of Visitors for 49 years, until her death in 1993. In that time, she advocated tirelessly for the hospital and successfully led a fight to prevent the relocation of the facility to Albany in the 1960s. In the 1970s, she was instrumental in the successful lobbying for funding to transform the hospital into a state-of-the-art facility.
Hayes also contributed her enthusiastic support to hospital events and fund-raising efforts, including handing out diplomas to the children upon graduation when the hospital was still a pediatric care facility. She also faithfully attended the hospital's annual Classic Race, leading the race by riding in a classic car and handing out awards to runners, hand cyclists, and wheelchair racers, and generously offering the use of her home Pretty Penny for a dinner to launch the hospital's endowment fund.
Death
Hayes died on St. Patrick's Day, 1993, from congestive heart failure in Nyack, New York. Lillian Gish, the "First Lady of American Cinema", was a great friend of Hayes, and had designated her as beneficiary of her estate, but Hayes survived her by less than a month. Hayes was interred in the Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, New York.[22] In 2011, she was honored with a US postage stamp.[23]
Legacy
Diminutive and homespun, Helen Hayes was distinctly less glamorous than the other Great Ladies, but the qualities of modesty and practicality that she projected helped create her lasting appeal. Hayes was a stage star for five decades before retiring, when she continued to act occasionally on film, television, and radio.
Stage and awards
Year | Production[24] | Role[24][25] | Notes |
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1905 | Miss Hawke's May Ball | Irish Dancer | |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | Peaseblossom | Revival | |
1908 | Babe in the Woods | Boy babe | |
1909 | Jack the Giant Killer | Gibson Girl, Nell Brinkley, Girl impersonators | |
A Royal Family | Prince Charles Ferdinand | Revival | |
Children's Dancing Kermess | Impersonation of "The Nell Brinkley Girl" | ||
The Prince Chap | Claudia, Age 5 | ||
A Poor Relation | Patch | ||
1910 | Old Dutch | Little Mime | |
The Summer Widowers | Pacyche Finnegan, Pinkie's playmate | ||
1911 | The Barrier | Molly, an Alaskan Child | |
Little Lord Fauntleroy | Cedric Errol | Revival | |
The Never Homes | Fannie Hicks, Another Near Orphan | ||
The Seven Sisters | Klara, the Youngest Daughter | Revival | |
Mary Jane's Pa | Revival | ||
1912 | The June Bride | The Holder's Child | |
1913 | Flood Victim's Benefit | ||
The Girl with Green Eyes | Susie, the Flower Girl | ||
His House in Order | Derek Jesson, his son | Revival | |
A Royal Family | Prince Charles Ferdinand | Revival | |
The Prince Chap | Revival | ||
The Prince and the Pauper | Tom Canty and Edward, Prince of Wales | ||
1914 | The Prodigal Husband | Young Simone | |
1916 | The Dummy | Beryl Meredith, the Kidnapper's Hostage | |
On Trial | His Daughter, Doris Strickland | ||
1917 | It Pays to Advertise | Marie, Maid at the Martins | Revival |
Romance | Suzette | ||
Just a Woman | Hired girl | Revival | |
Mile-a-Minute Kendall | Beth | ||
Rich Man, Poor Man | Linda Hurst | Revival | |
Alma, Where Do You Live? | Germain | Revival | |
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch | Asia | Revival | |
Within the Law | Revival | ||
Pollyanna | Pollyanna Whittier, The Glad Girl | Revival | |
1918 | Penrod | ||
Dear Brutus | Margaret, his daughter | ||
1919 | On the Hiring Line | Dorothy Fessenden, his daughter | |
Clarence | Cora Wheeler | ||
The Golden Age | |||
1920 | Bab | Bab | |
1921 | The Wren | Seeby Olds | |
The Golden Days | Mary Ann | ||
1922 | To the Ladies | Elsie Beebe | |
No Siree!: An Anonymous Entertainment by the Vicious Circus of the Hotel Algonquin |
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1923 | Loney Lee | Loney Lee | |
1924 | We Moderns | Mary Sundale, their Daughter | |
The Dragon | |||
She Stoops to Conquer | Constance Neville | Revival | |
Dancing Mothers | Catherine (Kittens) Westcourt | ||
Quarantine | Dinah Partlett | ||
1925 | Caesar and Cleopatra | Cleopatra | Revival |
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney | Maria | ||
Young Blood | Georgia Bissell | ||
1926 | What Every Woman Knows | Maggie Wylie | Revival |
1927 | Coquette | Norma Besant | |
1928 | Coquette | Norma Besant | London version |
1930 | Mr. Gilhooley | A girl | |
Petticoat Influence | Peggy Chalfont | ||
1931 | The Good Fairy | Lu | |
1933 | Mary of Scotland | Mary Stuart | |
1935 | Caesar and Cleopatra | Cleopatra | Revival |
Victoria Regina | Victoria | ||
1934 | What Every Woman Knows | Revival | |
1936 | Victoria Regina | Victoria | Revival |
1938 | The Merchant of Venice | Portia | Revival |
Victoria Regina | Victoria | Revival | |
1939 | Ladies and Gentlemen | Miss Terry Scott | |
1940 | Twelfth Night | Viola | Revival |
1941 | Candle in the Wind | Madeline Guest | |
1943 | Harriet | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
1944 | Harriet | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Revival |
1947 | Alice-Sit-By-The-Fire | Mrs. Alice Grey | |
Happy Birthday | Addie | Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play | |
1948 | The Glass Menagerie | Amanda Wingfield | Revival |
1949 | Good Housekeeping | ||
1950 | The Wisteria Trees | Lucy Andree Ransdell | |
1952 | Mrs. McThing | Mrs. Howard V. Larue III | |
1955 | Gentleman, The Queens | Catherine, Lady Macbeth, Mary and Queen Victoria | |
The Skin of Our Teeth | Mrs. Antrobus | Revival | |
1956 | Lovers, Villains and Fools | Narrator, Puck and the Chorus from Henry V | |
The Glass Menagerie | Amanda Wingfield | Revival | |
1958 | Time Remembered | The Duchess of Pont-Au-Bronc | Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (revival) |
1958 | A Adventure | Lulu Specer | |
Mid-Summer | Rose, the Maid | Revival | |
A Touch of the Poet | Nora Melody | ||
1960 | The Cherry Orchard | Lyuboff Ranevskaya | Revival |
The Chalk Garden | Mrs. Maugham | Revival | |
1962 | Shakespeare Revisited: A Program for Two Players | ||
1964 | Good Morning Miss Dove | Miss Lucerna Dove | |
The White House | Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, Edith Wilson, Julia Grant, Leonora Clayton, Mary Todd Lincoln, Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Mrs. Franklin Pierce, Mrs. Grover Cleveland, Mrs. James G. Blaine, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Rachel Jackson | ||
1965 | Helen Hayes' Tour of the Far East | ||
1966 | The Circle | Revival | |
The School for Scandal | Mrs. Candour | Revival | |
Right You Are If You Think You Are | Signora Frola | Revival | |
We Comrades Three | Mother | ||
You Can't Take It with You | Olga | Revival | |
1967 | The Show-Off | Mrs. Fisher | Tony Award's Vernon Rice-Drama Desk Award (revival) |
1968 | The Show-Off | Mrs. Fisher | return engagement (revival) |
1969 | The Front Page | Mrs. Grant | Revival |
1970 | Harvey | Veta Louise Simmons | Nominated – Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (Revival) |
1971 | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Mary Cavan Tyrone | Revival |
1980 | Tony Award's Lawrence Langner Memorial Award |
Filmography and awards
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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1910 | Two unidentified Vitagraph films | Juvenile lead | Hayes recalled in a 1931 interview with The New York Times that she had played the juvenile lead in two films starring Jean, the Vitagraph dog.[26] |
1917 | The Weavers of Life | Peggy | |
1928 | The Dancing Town | short subject | |
1931 | Arrowsmith | Leora Arrowsmith | |
The Sin of Madelon Claudet | Madelon Claudet | Academy Award for Best Actress | |
1932 | A Farewell to Arms | Catherine Barkley | |
The Son-Daughter | Lian Wha 'Star Blossom' | ||
1933 | The White Sister | Angela Chiaromonte | |
Another Language | Stella 'Stell' Hallam | ||
Night Flight | Madame Fabian | ||
1934 | Crime Without Passion | Extra in hotel lobby | Uncredited |
What Every Woman Knows | Maggie Wylie | ||
1935 | Vanessa: Her Love Story | Vanessa Paris | |
1938 | Hollywood Goes to Town | Herself, uncredited | short subject |
1943 | Stage Door Canteen | Herself | |
1952 | My Son John | Lucille Jefferson | |
1953 | Main Street to Broadway | Herself | |
1956 | Anastasia | Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna | Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama |
1959 | Third Man on the Mountain | Tourist | Uncredited |
1961 | The Challenge of Ideas | Narrator | short subject |
1970 | Airport | Ada Quonsett | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress |
1974 | Herbie Rides Again | Mrs. Steinmetz | Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
1975 | One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing | Hettie | |
1977 | Candleshoe | Lady St. Edmund |
Television appearances and awards
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1950 | Showtime, U.S.A. | Episode #1.1 | |
Prudential Family Playhouse | The Barretts of Wimpole Street | ||
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse | Mary, Queen of Scots | The Late Christopher Bean | |
1951 | Pulitzer Prize Playhouse | Mary, Queen of Scots | Mary of Scotland |
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Dark Fleece | ||
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | The Lucky Touch | ||
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Not a Chance | ||
Robert Montgomery Presents | Queen Victoria | Victoria Regina | |
Nominated — Emmy Award for Best Actress (nonspecific role) | |||
1952 | Omnibus | The Twelve Pound Look | |
Nominated — Emmy Award for Best Actress (nonspecific role) | |||
1953 | Omnibus | The Happy Journey | |
Omnibus | Mom and Leo | ||
Christmas with the Stars | |||
Medallion Theatre | Harriet Beecher Stowe | "Battle Hymn" | |
Emmy Award for Best Actress (nonspecific role) | |||
1954 | The United States Steel Hour | Mrs. Austin | Welcome Home |
The Best of Broadway | Fanny Cavendish | The Royal Family | |
The Motorola Television Hour | Frances Parry | Side by Side | |
1955 | Producers' Showcase | Mrs. Antrobus | The Skin of Our Teeth |
The Best of Broadway | Abby Brewster | Arsenic and Old Lace | |
1956 | Omnibus | Dear Brutus | |
Omnibus | The Christmas Tie | ||
1957 | The Alcoa Hour | Mrs. Gilling and the Skyscraper Nominated – Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie | |
Playhouse 90 | Sister Theresa | Four Women in Black | |
1958 | Omnibus | Mrs. McThing | |
The United States Steel Hour | Mother Seraphim | One Red Rose for Christmas Nominated – Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie | |
1959 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Essie | Ah, Wilderness! |
Play of the Week | Madame Ranevskaya | The Cherry Orchard | |
1960 | The Bell Telephone Hour | Baroness Nadedja von Meck | The Music of Romance |
Play of the Week | Madame Ranevskaya | The Velvet Glove | |
Dow Hour of Great Mysteries | Letitia Van Gorder | The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart | |
1961 | Michael Shayne | Murder Round My Wrist | |
1963 | The Christophers | What One Bootmaker Did | |
1967 | Tarzan | Mrs. Wilson | The Pride of the Lioness |
1969 | Arsenic and Old Lace | Abby Brewster | |
1970 | The Front Page | Narrator | |
1971 | Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate | Sophie Tate Curtis | Nominated – Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie |
1972 | Harvey | Veta Louise Simmons | |
Here's Lucy | Mrs. Kathleen Brady | Lucy and the Little Old Lady | |
Ghost Story | Miss Gilden | Alter-Ego | |
1973–1974 | The Snoop Sisters | Ernesta Snoop | Nominated – Emmy Award for Best Lead Actress in a Limited Series |
1975 | Hawaii Five-O | Aunt Clara | Retire in Sunny Hawaii – Forever Nominated – Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress for a Single Appearance in a Drama or Comedy Series. Costarred with her son James MacArthur (who played her nephew in the episode). |
1976 | Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers | Dr. McCartney | miniseries |
Victory at Entebbe | Etta Grossman-Wise | ||
1978 | A Family Upside Down | Emma Long | Nominated – Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie |
1980 | The Love Boat | Agatha Winslow | 1 episode |
1982 | Love, Sidney | Mrs. Clovis | Pro and Cons |
Murder is Easy | Lavinia Fullerton | ||
1983 | A Caribbean Mystery | Miss Marple | |
1984 | Highway to Heaven | Estelle Wicks | |
1985 | Murder with Mirrors | Miss Marple |
Other awards
In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Hayes's name and picture.[27] In 1983, Hayes received the Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.[28]
See also
Notes
- ↑ Reagan, Ronald."Ronald Reagan: Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the Presidential Medal of Freedom – May 12, 1986" presidency.ucsb.edu, May 12, 1986, accessed August 27, 2011
- ↑ "Helen Hayes: A Remembrance – Washington Theatre Guide – TheatreWashington – Helen Hayes Awards". Retrieved 22 January 2016.
- ↑ "The Official Website of Helen Hayes: Biography" Helen Hayes.com, accessed August 27, 2011
- 1 2 "Biography of Helen Hayes" Kennedy-Center.org, accessed August 27, 2011
- ↑ "The Theatre:Helen Millennial" Time Magazine, December 30, 1935.
- ↑ Rice, Jean (March 18, 1993). "Helen Hayes, Flower of the Stage, Dies at 92". New York Times.
- ↑ Evely, Douglas E., Dickson, Paul, and Ackerman, S.J."The White House Neighborhood"On This Spot: Pinpointing the Past in Washington D.C. (2008), Capital Books, ISBN 1-933102-70-5, p.166
- ↑ "Helen Hayes" biography.yourdictionary.com, accessed August 27, 2011
- ↑ O'Haire, Patricia. "Dickens lends the Bard a Hand," The New York Daily News, September 13, 1982
- 1 2 Mosel, p.unknown
- ↑ "The Theatre: Great Katharine"Time Magazine, April 3, 1939
- ↑ "About Us, History" Wildflower.org, accessed August 27, 2011
- ↑ "Members of the American Theater Hall of Fame". Retrieved February 5, 2014.
- ↑ Hayes, Helen. My Life in Three Acts. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: San Diego, CA, 1990, p.unknown
- ↑ Hevesi, Dennis. "Helen Hayes Is Remembered in Church She Loved", The New York Times, March 21, 1993, p.45
- ↑ Anderson, Ruth Nathan. "Helen Hayes Discovers She's Allergic to Dust," Boca Raton News, November 23, 1980
- ↑ "Helen Hayes Biography" britannica.com, accessed August 27, 2011
- ↑ Barnes, Clive. "Stage:Unseen White Rabbit Returns:James Stewart Stars in Phoenix's 'Harvey'", The New York Times, February 25, 1970, p.41
- ↑ O'Haire, Patricia. "Dickens lends the Bard a Hand," The New York Daily News, Sept 13, 1982
- ↑ Brochure of the Riverside Shakespeare Company, 1982, p. 3.
- ↑ Tomasson, Robert E. "Helping Those Who Help;Scrooge's Return", The New York Times, November 24, 1985, p.78
- ↑ Pace, Eric."Helen Hayes, Flower of the Stage, Dies at 92"The New York Times (requires registration), March 18, 1993
- ↑ "Helen Hayes Postage Stamp" beyondtheperf.com, April 25, 2011, accessed August 27, 2011
- 1 2 "Helen Hayes Credits, Broadway" Internet Broadway Database, accessed August 27, 2011
- ↑ "About Helen Hayes – Theater (Official site)" Helen Hayes.com, accessed August 27, 2011
- ↑ "Miss Hayes and Films". The New York Times. March 15, 1931. Retrieved 2015-11-28.
I'm afraid my former career in the movies doesn't mean much, but when I was 8 years old and had just made my first stage appearance, in a Lew Fields musical show, 'Old Dutch', my mother took me over to the old Vitagraph studio in Brooklyn. I had long curls and they let me play the juvenile lead in two pictures in support of Jean, the collie. Jean was the most famous dog of the day and I was very thrilled.
- ↑ Wulf, Steve (2015-03-23). "Supersisters: Original Roster". Espn.go.com. Retrieved 2015-06-04.
- ↑ "Jefferson Awards FoundationNational – Jefferson Awards Foundation". Jefferson Awards Foundation. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
References
- Mosel, Tad and Macy, Gertrude. Leading Lady: The World and Theatre of Katharine Cornell(1978), Little, Brown & Co, Boston, ISBN 0-316-58537-8
- Murphy, Donn B. and Moore, Stephen. Helen Hayes; A Bio-Bibliography (1993)
External links
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- Helen Hayes at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- Official site
- Tribute site
- Helen Hayes papers, 1817–1963 (bulk dates 1905–1963), held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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- Lifetime Honors – National Medal of Arts
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