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Helen Hayes (October 10, 1900 - March 17, 1993)
was an American actress whose successful and
award-winning career spanned almost 70 years.  She
was eventually to garner the nickname "First Lady
of the American Theater", and was one of the few
people List of people who have won an Emmy, a
Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award|who has won an
Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award.

Born Helen Hayes Brown in Washington, DC, she
began a stage career at an early age.  By 10, she
had made a short film called Jean and the Calico
Doll, but she only moved to Hollywood when her
husband, playwright Charles MacArthur, signed a
Hollywood deal.  Her sound film debut was The Sin
of Madelon Claudet, for which she won the Academy
Award for Best Actress.  She followed that with
starring roles in Arrowsmith (movie)|Arrowsmith
(with Myrna Loy), A Farewell to Arms (with actor
Gary Cooper whom Hayes admitted to finding
extremely attractive), The White Sister, What
Every Woman Knows (a reprise from her Broadway
hit), and Vanessa: Her Love Story. However, she
never became a fan favorite.

Hayes and MacArthur eventually returned to
Broadway theatre|Broadway, and she starred for
three years in Victoria Regina. Eventually, a
theater was named in her honor. She returned to
Hollywood in the 1950s, and her film star began to
rise. She starred in My Son John and Anastasia
(1956 movie)|Anastasia, and won the Academy Award
for Best Supporting Actress in 1970 for Airport
(movie)|Airport.  She followed that up with
several roles in The Walt Disney Company|Disney
films such as Herbie Rides Again, One of Our
Dinosaurs is Missing and Candleshoe.

Hayes wrote three memoirs: A Gift of Joy, On
Reflection and My Life in Three Acts. Some of the
themes in these books include her return to Roman
Catholicism after having been denied communion
from the Church for the length of her marriage to
MacArthur, who was a Protestant and a
divorce|divorcé, and the death of her only
daughter, Mary, who was an aspiring actress, from
polio. Hayes's son, James MacArthur, went on to a
career in acting also, starring in Hawaii Five-O
on television.  

Hayes was a pro-business Republican, who attended
the last Republican National Convention before her
death, which was held in Colorado, but she was not
as far-right as certain others (e.g. Adolphe
Menjou, Ginger Rogers, John Wayne, etc) in the
Hollywood community of that time. 

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at
6220 Hollywood Blvd.

The Helen Hayes Award for theater in the
Washington D.C. area is named in her honor.

Helen Hayes died on (St. Patrick's Day) March 17,
1993 of natural causes, not long after the death
of her friend Lillian Gish, who had made Hayes the
beneficiary of her estate. Hayes was interred in
the Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, New York.

==Stage Appearances==
*Miss Hawke's May Ball (1905)
*A Midsummer Night's Dream (1905)
*Babe in the Woods (1908)
*Jack the Giant Killer (1909)
*A Royal Family (1909)
*Children's Dancing Kerrness (1909)
*The Prince Chap (1909)
*A Poor Relation (1909)
*Old Dutch (1909)
*The Summer Widowers (1910)
*The Barrier (1911)
*Little Lord Fauntleroy (1911)
*The Never Homes (1911)
*The Seven Sisters (1911)
*Mary Jane's Pa (1911)
*The June Bride (1912)
*The Girl with Green Eyes (1913)
*His House in Order (1913)
*A Royal Family (1913)
*The Prince Chap (1913)
*The Prince and the Pauper (1913)
*The Prodigal Husband (1914)
*The Dummy (1916)
*On Trial (1916)
*It Pays to Advertise (1917)
*Romance (1917)
*Just a Woman (1917)
*Mile-a-Minute Kendall (1917)
*Rich Man, Poor Man (1917)
*Alma, Where Do You Live? (1917)
*Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1917)
*Within the Law (1917)
*Pollyanna (1917)
*Penrod (1918)
*Dear Brutus (1918)
*On the Hiring Line (1919)
*Clarence (1919)
*The Golden Age (1919)
*Bab (1920)
*The Wren (1921)
*The Golden Days (1921)
*To the Ladies (1922)
*No Siree!: An Anonymous Entertaiment by the
Vicious Circus of the Hotel Algonquin  (1922)
*Lonely Lee (1923)
*We Moderns (1924)
*The Dragon (1924)
*She Stoops to Conquer (1924)
*Dancing Mothers (1924)
*Quarantine (1924)
*Caesar and Cleopatra (1925)
*The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1925)
*Young Blood (1925)
*What Every Woman Knows (1926)
*Coquette (1927)
*Coquette (1928) (London version)
*Mr. Gilhooley (1930)
*Petticoat Influence (1930)
*The Good Fairy (1931)
*Mary of Scotland (1933)
*Caesar and Cleopatra (1935)
*Victoria Regina (1935)
*Victoria Regina (1936) (revival)
*The Merchant of Venice (1938)
*What Every Woman Knows (1938)
*Victoria Regina (1938) (revival)
*Ladies and Gentleman (1939)
*Twelfth Night (1940)
*Candle in the Wind (1941)
*Harriet (1943)
*Alice-Sit-By-The-Fire (1946)
*Happy Birthday (1946)
*The Glass Menagerie (1948)
*Good Housekeeping (1949)
*The Wisteria Trees (1950)
*Mrs. McThing (1952)
*Gentleman, The Queens (1955)
*The Skin of Our Teeth (1955)
*Lovers, Villans and Fools (1956)
*The Glass Menagerie (1956)
*Time Remembered (1957)
*A Adventure (1958)
*Mid-Summer (1958)
*A Touch of the Poet (1958)
*The Cherry Orchard (1960)
*The Chalk Garden (1960)
*Shakespeare Revisited: A Program for Two Players
(1962)*Good Morning, Miss Dove (1964)
*The White House (1964)
*The Circle (1966)
*The School for Scandal (1966)
*Right You Are If You Think You Are (1966)
*We Comrades Three (1966)
*You Can't Take It With You (1966)
*The Show-Off (1967)
*The Show-Off (1968) (return engagement)
*The Front Page (1969)
*Harvey (1970)
*Long Day's Journey Into Night (1971)

==Filmography==
*The Weavers of Life (1917)
*Babs (1920)
*The Dancing Town (1928) (short subject)
*The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
*Arrowsmith (1931)
*A Farewell to Arms (1932)
*The Son-Daughter (1932)
*The White Sister (1933)
*Another Language (1933)
*Night Flight (1933)
*Crime Without Passion (1934)
*What Every Woman Knows (1934)
*Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935)
*Hollywood Goes to Town (1938) (short subject)
*Stage Door Canteen (1943)
*My Son John (1952)
*Main Street to Broadway (1953)
*Anastasia (1956 movie)|Anastasia (1956)
*Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
*The Challenge of Ideas (1961) (short subject)
(narrator)
*Airport (movie)|Airport (1970)
*Herbie Rides Again (1974)
*One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975)
*Candleshoe (1977)