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Helen Hayes - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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October 10, 1900, Washington, USA - March 17, 1993, New York - American actress.
Hayes began her acting career at an early age. In 1909, she first appeared on Broadway, and a year later made her debut on the big screen in one of the silent films. Helen Hayes' Hollywood career began a little later, after her husband, playwright Charles MacArthur, signed a contract with one of the film studios.
The first sound film with the participation of the actress was the film Madlon Claudet's Sin, for which she received an Oscar in the nomination for Best Actress. This was followed by roles in the films Farewell to Arms (1932), The White Nun (1933) and Another Language (1933). In 1935, the actress left Hollywood, concentrating all her energies on a career in the theater. In the decades that followed, she remained one of the most sought-after actresses in New York.
In 1953, Helen Hayes became the first recipient of the Sarah Sidedons Award for her work in theaters in Chicago. At the same time, she returned to Hollywood with a role in the drama Leo McCarey "My Son John". Her next successful film role was the Empress Dowager Maria Feodorovna in the successful melodrama Anastasia (1956) with Ingrid Bergman in the title role. In 1971, the actress won her second Oscar for her portrayal of the brisk stowaway Ada Quonsett in the disaster film Airport.
For many years, Helen Hayes struggled with asthma, which led to several hospitalizations for the actress, and because of which in 1971 she was forced to end her acting career, which lasted 60 years. In 1983, one of New York's theaters on West 45th Street was named after the actress by the Helen Hayes Theater. The actress wrote three collections of memoirs: "A Gift of Joy", "Reflected" and "My Life in Three Acts".
In the mid-1980s, Hayes portrayed Miss Marple in two CBS television dramas, Miss Marple in the West Indies (1983) and Murder with Mirrors (1984), in which she was the last of her acting career. In 1990, the actress was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the hands of Ronald Reagan.
