Actor
Helen Hayes
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 excellenc ...

Known For
Acting
2022 -- Bill Cosby: Walking Free | Self (archive footage)
1998 -- Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero | Self (archive footage)
1990 -- Night of 100 Stars III | Self
1987 -- The Ten-Year Lunch | Herself - Participant
1985 -- Murder with Mirrors | Miss Jane Marple
1983 -- A Caribbean Mystery | Miss Jane Marple
1982 -- Night of 100 Stars | Self
1982 -- Murder Is Easy | Lavinia Fullerton
1981 -- Hopper's Silence | Herself
1978 -- A Family Upside Down | Emma Long
1977 -- Candleshoe | Lady St. Edmund
1976 -- Victory at Entebbe | Etta Grossman-Wise
1975 -- One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing | Hettie
1974 -- Herbie Rides Again | Mrs. Steinmetz
1972 -- The Snoop Sisters | Ernesta Snoop
1972 -- Harvey | Veta Louise Simmons
1971 -- Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate | Sophie Tate Curtis
1970 -- Airport | Ada Quonsett
1969 -- Arsenic and Old Lace | Abby Brewster
1961 -- The Challenge of Ideas | Narrator
1960 -- The Bat | Cornelia Van Gorder
1959 -- Third Man on the Mountain | Hotel guest (uncredited)
1956 -- Anastasia | Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
1955 -- A.N.T.A. Album of 1955 | Self
1953 -- Main Street to Broadway | Self
1952 -- Mr. Lincoln | Bessie Arlington
1952 -- My Son John | Lucille Jefferson
1943 -- Stage Door Canteen | Helen Hayes
1940 -- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Self (archive footage)
1938 -- Hollywood Goes to Town | Self
1935 -- Vanessa: Her Love Story | Vanessa Paris
1934 -- What Every Woman Knows | Maggie Wylie
1934 -- Crime Without Passion | Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
1933 -- Night Flight | Madame Fabian
1933 -- Another Language | Stella Hallam
1933 -- The White Sister | Angela Chiaromonte
1932 -- The Son-Daughter | Lian Wha
1932 -- A Farewell to Arms | Catherine Barkley
1931 -- Arrowsmith | Leora Tozer Arrowsmith
1931 -- The Sin of Madelon Claudet | Madelon Claudet
1928 -- The Dancing Town | Olive Pepperall
1923 -- Riders of the Range | Inez
1917 -- The Weavers of Life | Peggy
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