Margaret Sullavan

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1751 Vine Street. Gwen appeared in Kevin's Dogma, in a small role as a bus clerk. It was made into a television movie starring Lee Remick. Director Kevin Smith was a fan of the movie, particularly a scene in it wherein, in an imagined sequence, some of a character's friends chastise her for "selling out" and sleeping with a guy, and used it as an inspiration for his rather unique take on a similiar theme in his own film Chasing Amy. Her daughter, actress Brooke Hayward, wrote a memoir, Haywire, about her family. In it she plays a young woman whose friends help her in the (lesbian) dating scene. She co-starred frequently with James Stewart, with whom she and Fonda had acted in a stock company when they were all unknowns. An early film Gwen starred in, for which she also helped produce with her then-girlfriend, Rose Troche, was called Go Fish.

She also appeared in Little Man, What Now?, The Good Fairy, So Red the Rose, The Moon's Our Home, Next Time We Love, The Shopworn Angel, Three Comrades (for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress), The Shop Around the Corner, The Mortal Storm, Appointment for Love and Cry Havoc. Guinevere Turner and I Shot Andy Warhol director Mary Harron wrote the screenplay which ended up being selected for the film version of Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho. Her film debut came in 1933 in Only Yesterday. Amoungst other recent films, she starred in the 1997 British BDSM/Fetish comedy film Preaching to the Perverted as the New York dominatrix "Tanya Cheex". Her death was officially ruled an accident, but many think it was a suicide. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA on May 23, 1968. She was found unconscious in a hotel room in New Haven, Connecticut from a barbiturate overdose on January 1, 1960. Guinevere Turner is a lesbian actress and writer.

Sullavan suffered from depression and a congenital hearing defect that grew worse as she grew older. Her last film role was in 1950. While married to Hayward, she worked less and less. Her third marriage, to agent and producer Leland Hayward, lasted 13 years and produced three children.

Her marriage to director William Wyler was equally brief. The marriage ended the following year, although Sullavan and Fonda remained lifelong friends. She married Henry Fonda on December 25 of that year. She made her Broadway debut in 1931.

She was born in Norfolk, Virginia, the daughter of a wealthy stockbroker. Margaret Brooke Sullavan (May 16, 1911 - January 1, 1960) was an American actress.