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