Margaret Brooke Sullavan was an American actress of stage and film. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in Three Comrades. She died of an overdose of barbiturates, which was ruled accidental, on January 1, 1960, at the age of 50.
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Margaret Brooke Sullavan was an American actress of stage and film. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Three Comrades. She died of an overdose of barbiturates, which was ruled accidental, on January 1, 1960, at the age of 50. She made her debut on the screen that same year in Only Yesterday. For the rest of her career she would appear only on the stage. She retired from the screen in the early 1940s, but returned in 1950 to make her last film, No Sad Songs for Me, in which she played a woman who was dying of cancer. She had a younger brother, Cornelius, and a half-sister, Louise Gregory. The first years of her childhood were spent isolated from other children. She suffered from a painful muscular weakness in the legs that prevented her from walking, so that she was unable to socialize with other children until she was six. She attended boarding school at Chatham Episcopal Institute, where she was president of the student body and delivered the salutatory oration in 1927. She played the lead in Strictly Dishonorable by Preston Sturges, which her parents attended. Her parents did not approve of her choice of career, but when confronted with her evident talent, their objections ceased. She later recalled: “I thought I’d have to put up with their yappings on the subject forever.’” She died in 1960, aged 50, after suffering from increasing hearing problems, depression, and mental frailty in the 1950s.
She is survived by her brother Cornelius and her sister Louise Gregory, both of whom died of cancer in the 1990s, and her son, John Sullavon, who died in 2012. She leaves behind a daughter, Margaret Brooke Sully, and two sons, John and John Sully Jr., and a daughter-in-law, Robert Sully. She also leaves a son, James Sully and a step-son, David Sully,. who both died in 2011, after a long battle with lung cancer. Her husband, James Stewart, died in a car accident in 2012, aged 89. She left behind a husband and two children, John James Stewart and James Stewart. Sully died in 2013, aged 90, after battling lung cancer for more than a decade. She has three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. She will be buried in Arlington, Massachusetts. She starred in the Broadway production of A Modern Virgin on May 20, 1931. In 1933 she caught the attention of movie director John M. Stahl and had her debut in Only yesterday. In March 1933 she replaced another actor in Dinner at Eight in New York. At one point in 1932 she starred in four Broadway flops, but the critics praised her for her performances in all of them. She turned down contract offers for five-year contracts from Paramount and Columbia. In 1934 she was offered a three-year contract at USD 1,200-a-week.
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