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Sullavan returned to the screen in 1950 to do one last picture, No Sad Songs for Me. She played a suburban housewife and mother who learns that she will die of cancer within a year and who then determines to find a "second" wife for her soon-to-be-widower husband (Wendell Corey). Natalie Wood, then 11, played their daughter.
NEW HAVEN, Jan. 1 -- Margaret Sullavan, the actress, was found unconscious in her room at the Taft Hotel today and was dead on arrival at Grace-New Haven Community Hospital. She was 48 years old.
American actress, known for her moving performance in Three Comrades and her light touch in The Shop Around the Corner. Born Margaret Brooke Sullavan on May 16, 1911, in Norfolk, Virginia; died on January 1, 1960, of an overdose of barbiturates; daughter of Cornelius H. Sullivan (a broker) and Garland (Council) Sullavan; attended Miss Turnbull ...
The cause of the death in New Haven last Friday of Margaret Sullavan, the actress, was still undetermined last night.
Wood died from a heart attack shortly after a raging argument with Sullavan, who had refused to allow the firing of a writer on No Sad Songs for Me on account of his left-wing views. [31] M-G-M studio chief Louis B. Mayer always seemed wary and nervous in her presence.
Margaret Sullavan died from barbiturate poisoning on January 1, 1960. Her death was officially ruled to be accidental. Her two youngest children, Bridget and Bill, both subsequently committed suicide.
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Margaret Sullavan, the actress who died of an accidental overdose of sleeping pills eight days ago, had a secret. She was fighting deafness. View Full Article in Timesmachine »
