Helen Hayes
Date of birth: 1900-10-09
Place of birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Helen Hayes Brown, Хелен Хейс Макартур, Хелен Хейс, Helen Hayes MacArthur
Biography
Helen 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.
Movie Credits
Airport
1970-03-25
An airport manager tries to keep his terminals open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots
Herbie Rides Again
1974-02-12
The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.
Murder Is Easy
1982-01-02
American computer whiz Luke Williams meets elderly Lavinia Fullerton on a London-bound train. She re
Victory at Entebbe
1976-12-22
The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Enteb
A Caribbean Mystery
1983-10-22
Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that
Murder with Mirrors
1985-02-20
When Miss Jane Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there's time to l
A Farewell to Arms
1932-12-08
A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederi
The Female Instinct
1972-12-18
A spinster and her widowed sister, both authors of murder mystery novels, try to track down the kill
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
1975-07-09
Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a
Candleshoe
1977-12-16
When ex-con artist Harry claims that a secret treasure is hidden inside Candleshoe, an English estat
Anastasia
1956-12-13
Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a de
Stage Door Canteen
1943-06-24
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars o
Third Man on the Mountain
1959-11-10
Famous British mountaineer Winter wants to climb a difficult summit, the Citadel. He goes to a small
My Son John
1952-04-08
In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.
Another Language
1933-07-28
A newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages.
Arrowsmith
1931-12-07
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1931-10-23
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her i
Night Flight
1933-10-06
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
Bill Cosby: Walking Free
2022-03-04
Follow the twists and turns of his life, legacy and legal battle as America's former favourite 'Dad'
The White Sister
1933-03-17
An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war.
Vanessa: Her Love Story
1935-03-01
The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
Hopper's Silence
1981-10-05
Documentary about painter Edward Hopper and his wife.
The Son-Daughter
1932-12-23
Young Asians in San Francisco find their love thwarted by clan warfare.
What Every Woman Knows
1934-10-18
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wyli
The Challenge of Ideas
1961-01-01
Various celebrities and news-media figures discuss the polarization of politics between the Western
A Family Upside Down
1978-04-09
An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find them
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
1971-11-09
Four elderly ladies with a lot of time on their hands get the idea to create a fictional "girl" for
The Dancing Town
1928-10-26
Young kids face off in a dance competition.
Night of 100 Stars III
1990-05-21
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
Night of 100 Stars
1982-03-08
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place
Harvey
1972-03-22
Elwood P. Dowd's constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall invisible rabbit. To his sister, his
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
1998-03-17
Known for his personification of the Western Hero, it was Montana-born Gary Cooper's horse-riding sk
Main Street to Broadway
1953-10-12
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to ac
A.N.T.A. Album of 1955
1955-03-28
A closed-circuit television special produced to raise funds for the relief agency CARE telecast live
The Bat
1960-03-29
A sinister criminal known only as "The Bat" attempts to locate a fortune in stolen securities suppos
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940-07-31
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirl
Hollywood Goes to Town
1938-07-07
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film c
Arsenic and Old Lace
1969-04-02
A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and th
The Ten-Year Lunch
1987-09-28
The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the
Crime Without Passion
1934-08-30
Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Car
The Weavers of Life
1917-11-01
Riders of the Range
1923-02-15
A growing number of cattle raids prompts the cattlemen to call on their cattlemen's association pres
All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
1979-12-06
Frank Sinatra, Goldie Hawn, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart and many more pay tribute to Ingrid Bergman.
Airports
2025-09-17
Edited together from all four Airport movies by Academy Award nominated screenwriter Josh Olson (A H
Four Women in Black
1957-04-25
Four nuns, led by Sister Teresa, begin a treacherous journey across the Arizona desert in 1870. Thei