Margaret Sullavan

Margaret Sullavan was an actress who performed on stage, screen, and television. She began her acting career with the Harvard University players, while living with her sister in Boston in 1929. She debuted on Broadway in 1931 in A Modern Virgin, and went on to Hollywood in 1933. She received an Oscar nomination for her performance in Three Comrades in 1938. Sullavan suffered from depression throughout her life, and was found dead in a hotel in New Haven, Connecticut on January 1, 1960 of an overdose of barbituates.

• Margaret Sullavan: "Most actors are basically neurotic people. Terribly, terribly unhappy. That's one of the reasons they become actors. Nobody well adjusted would ever want to expose himself or herself to a large group of strangers. Think of it. Insanity! Generally, by their very nature - that is if they're at all dedicated - actors do not make good parents. They are altogether egotistical and selfish. The better the actor - and I hate to say it, the bigger the star - why, the more that seems to be true. Honestly, I don't think I've ever known one - not one! - star who was successfully able to combine a career and family life."