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Helen Hayes

Helen Hayes

Highest Rated: 93% Anastasia (1956)

Lowest Rated: 40% My Son John (1952)

Birthday: Oct 10, 1900

Birthplace: Washington, D.C., USA

This 'First Lady of the American Theater' began her illustrious eight-decade-long career as a child actress on the Washington stage at age five. By age nine, Hayes had made her Broadway debut and was soon starring as the embodiment of sunny optimism, "Pollyanna." Around the same time, she made her film debut in the 1910 short "Jean and the Calico Cat" and appeared in other New York-produced films as a juvenile.

Highest rated movies

93% Anastasia
89% A Farewell to Arms
89% Arrowsmith
83% Herbie Rides Again
75% Airport
40% My Son John

Photos

ANOTHER LANGUAGE, from left: Robert Montgomery, Helen Hayes, 1933 A FAREWELL TO ARMS, Helen Hayes, 1932 MY SON JOHN, Helen Hayes, 1952 MY SON JOHN, Helen Hayes, Dean Jagger, 1952 MY SON JOHN, Helen Hayes, 1952 MY SON JOHN, Van Heflin, Helen Hayes, 1952 THE SIN OF MADELON CLAUDET, Helen Hayes, 1931 MY SON JOHN, Van Heflin, Helen Hayes, Robert Walker, 1952 MY SON JOHN, Robert Walker, Helen Hayes, 1952 MY SON JOHN, Helen Hayes, Robert Walker, 1952 MY SON JOHN, Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, 1952 MY SON JOHN, Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, 1952 NIGHT FLIGHT, from left: Frank Conroy, Helen Hayes, 1933 EVELYN PRENTICE, from left: producer John Considine, Myrna Loy, William Powell, visitor Helen Hayes, director William K. Howard on set, 1934 THE SIN OF MADELON CLAUDET, Helen Hayes, 1931 THE SON-DAUGHTER, from left: H.B. Warner, Helen Hayes, Lewis Stone, Ramon Novarro, 1932 ANOTHER LANGUAGE, Robert Montgomery, Helen Hayes, 1933 THE SON-DAUGHTER, from left: Ramon Novarro, Louise Closser Hale, Helen Hayes, 1932 VANESSA: HER LOVE STORY, from left: Robert Montgomery, Helen Hayes, 1935 ANOTHER LANGUAGE, front from left: Robert Montgomery, Helen Hayes, rear from left: Hal K. Dawson, Maidel Turner, Henry Travers, Louise Closser Hale, Margaret Hamilton, Willard Robertson, John Beal, 1933
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bill Cosby: Walking Free Self - 2022
No Score Yet 50% Murder With Mirrors Miss Jane Marple (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Highway to Heaven Estelle Wicks (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet 55% A Caribbean Mystery Miss Jane Marple (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet 55% Murder Is Easy Lavinia Fullerton (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Family Upside Down Emma Long (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet 71% Candleshoe Lady St. Edmund (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Moneychangers Dr. McCartney (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet 56% Victory at Entebbe Etta Grossman-Wise (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet 68% One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing Hettie (Character) - 1975
83% 53% Herbie Rides Again Mrs. Steinmetz (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Female Instinct Ernesta Snoop (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate Sophie Tate Curtis (Character) - 1971
75% 54% Airport Ada Quonsett (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Front Page Narrator - 1970
No Score Yet 72% Third Man on the Mountain Tourist (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ah, Wilderness! Essie Miller (Character) - 1959
93% 78% Anastasia Dowager Empress (Character) - 1956
40% 21% My Son John Lucille Jefferson (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet 61% Stage Door Canteen Self - 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet Vanessa, Her Love Story Vanessa Paris (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet What Every Woman Knows Maggie Wylie (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Another Language Stella "Stell" Hallam (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet The White Sister Angela Chiaromonte (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet 20% Night Flight Simone Fabian (Character) - 1933
89% 53% A Farewell to Arms Catherine Barkley (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Son-Daughter Lien Wha (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet 65% The Sin of Madelon Claudet Madelon Claudet (Character) - 1931
89% 42% Arrowsmith Leora Arrowsmith (Character) - 1931

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 66% Highway to Heaven Estelle Wicks (Guest Star) 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Walt Disney's Disneyland Mrs. Steinmetz (Character) 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Snoop Sisters Ernesta Snoop (Character) 1973-1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet What's My Line? Guest 1951 1957 1964 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Here's Lucy Unknown (Guest Star) 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tarzan Mrs. Wilson (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Alcoa Hour Mrs. GIlling (Character) 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Producers' Showcase Unknown (Character) 1955
No Score Yet No Score Yet The United States Steel Hour Mrs. Austin (Character) 1954
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Jack Benny Program: The Lost Episodes Guest 1954