Margaret Brooke Sullavan (May , â€" January , ) was an American
actress of stage and film.Sullavan began her career onstage in . In
she caught the attention of movie director John M. Stahl and had her
debut on the screen that same year in Only Yesterday.Sullavan
preferred working on the stage and made only movies, four of which
were opposite James Stewart in a popular partnership that included The
Mortal Storm and The Shop Around the Corner. She was nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Three Comrades
(). She retired from the screen in the early s, but returned in to
make her last movie, No Sad Songs for Me, in which she played a woman
who was dying of cancer. For the rest of her career she would appear
only on the stage.Sullavan experienced increasing hearing problems,
depression, and mental frailty in the s. She died of an overdose of
barbiturates, which was ruled accidental, on January , , at the age of
.
actress of stage and film.Sullavan began her career onstage in . In
she caught the attention of movie director John M. Stahl and had her
debut on the screen that same year in Only Yesterday.Sullavan
preferred working on the stage and made only movies, four of which
were opposite James Stewart in a popular partnership that included The
Mortal Storm and The Shop Around the Corner. She was nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Three Comrades
(). She retired from the screen in the early s, but returned in to
make her last movie, No Sad Songs for Me, in which she played a woman
who was dying of cancer. For the rest of her career she would appear
only on the stage.Sullavan experienced increasing hearing problems,
depression, and mental frailty in the s. She died of an overdose of
barbiturates, which was ruled accidental, on January , , at the age of
.
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