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Helen Hayes is a Actor American born on 9 october 1900 at Washington, D.C. (USA)
Helen Hayes MacArthur (née Brown) (October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993) was an American actress whose career spanned almost 80 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of American Theatre" and was one of 12 people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award (an EGOT). 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. The annual Helen Hayes Awards, which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in the greater Washington, DC area since 1984, are her namesake. In 1955, the former Fulton Theatre on 46th Street in New York City's Broadway Theater District was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre. When that venue was torn down in 1982, the nearby Little Theatre was renamed in her honor. Helen Hayes is regarded as one of the greatest stage actresses of the 20th century.
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 (she had been denied communion from the Church for the length of her marriage to MacArthur, who was a divorced Protestant); and the death of her only daughter, Mary, who was an aspiring actress, from polio at the age of 19. Hayes's adopted son, James MacArthur, went on to a career in acting, starring in Hawaii Five-O on television. (Hayes herself guest-starred on a 1975 episode of Hawaii Five-0, playing the aunt of MacArthur's character.)
Hayes was hospitalized a number of times for her asthma condition, which was aggravated by stage dust, forcing her to retire from legitimate theater in 1971, at age 71.
Her last Broadway show was a 1970 revival of Harvey, in which she co-starred with James Stewart. Clive Barnes wrote, "She epitomizes flustered charm almost as if it were a style of acting...She is one of those actors...where to watch how she is doing something is almost as pleasurable as what she is doing." She spent most of her last years writing and raising money for organizations that fight asthma.
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Helen Hayes
Birth name Helen Hayes Browne
Nationality USA
Birth 9 october 1900 at Washington, D.C. (USA)
Death 17 march 1993 (at 92 years) at Nyack (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Presidential Medal of Freedom, National Medal of Arts
Nationality USA
Birth 9 october 1900 at Washington, D.C. (USA)
Death 17 march 1993 (at 92 years) at Nyack (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Presidential Medal of Freedom, National Medal of Arts
Helen Hayes MacArthur (née Brown) (October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993) was an American actress whose career spanned almost 80 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of American Theatre" and was one of 12 people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award (an EGOT). 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. The annual Helen Hayes Awards, which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in the greater Washington, DC area since 1984, are her namesake. In 1955, the former Fulton Theatre on 46th Street in New York City's Broadway Theater District was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre. When that venue was torn down in 1982, the nearby Little Theatre was renamed in her honor. Helen Hayes is regarded as one of the greatest stage actresses of the 20th century.
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Hayes was a Catholic and a probusiness Republican who attended many Republican National Conventions (including the one held in New Orleans in 1988), but she was not as politically vocal as some others (e.g., Adolphe Menjou, Ginger Rogers, John Wayne, Ronald Reagan etc.) in the Hollywood community of that time.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 (she had been denied communion from the Church for the length of her marriage to MacArthur, who was a divorced Protestant); and the death of her only daughter, Mary, who was an aspiring actress, from polio at the age of 19. Hayes's adopted son, James MacArthur, went on to a career in acting, starring in Hawaii Five-O on television. (Hayes herself guest-starred on a 1975 episode of Hawaii Five-0, playing the aunt of MacArthur's character.)
Hayes was hospitalized a number of times for her asthma condition, which was aggravated by stage dust, forcing her to retire from legitimate theater in 1971, at age 71.
Her last Broadway show was a 1970 revival of Harvey, in which she co-starred with James Stewart. Clive Barnes wrote, "She epitomizes flustered charm almost as if it were a style of acting...She is one of those actors...where to watch how she is doing something is almost as pleasurable as what she is doing." She spent most of her last years writing and raising money for organizations that fight asthma.
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Cinema Paradiso (1988)
, 1h58Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about films, Films about children, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio, Marco Leonardi, Jacques Perrin, Brigitte Fossey, Antonella Attili
Roles Catherine Barkley (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rating84%
In Rome, in the 1980s, famous Italian film director Salvatore Di Vita returns home late one evening, where his girlfriend sleepily tells him that his mother called to say someone named Alfredo has died. Salvatore obviously shies from committed relationships and has not been to his home village of Giancaldo, Sicily in 30 years. As his girlfriend asks him who Alfredo is, Salvatore flashes back to his childhood.
The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)
, 56minutesDirected by Aviva Slesin
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about writers, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about cities
Actors Helen Hayes, Heywood Hale Broun, Ruth Gordon, Margalo Gillmore, Roberta Maxwell, Marshall Efron
Roles Herself - Participant
Rating65%
Le film retrace l'histoire de l'Algonquin Round Table, un groupe d'écrivains et d'acteurs à qui se réunissaient à l'Hôtel Algonquin à New York dans les années 1920, comprenant des personnalités telles que Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, Edna Ferber, Marc Connelly, Harold Ross et Harpo Marx.
Murder with Mirrors (1985)
, 1h40Directed by Dick Lowry
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Helen Hayes, Bette Davis, John Mills, Leo McKern, Dorothy Tutin, Anton Rodgers
Roles Miss Jane Marple
Rating62%
Miss Marple (Helen Hayes) is reunited with her old American friend Carrie Louise Serrocold (Bette Davis) from their days touring Italy as young ladies. Miss Marple is called on to investigate possible causes of Carrie Louise's deteriorating health. However, as Miss Marple keeps her friend company, her attention is soon diverted as she stumbles over a dead body. A murderer is at large in a house of suspects (Brocket Hall), and a race against time begins.
A Caribbean Mystery (1983)
, 1h28Directed by Robert Michael Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Helen Hayes, Barnard Hughes, Jameson Parker, Season Hubley, Zakes Mokae, Dr. Stephen Macht
Roles Miss Jane Marple
Rating62%
Miss Marple est en vacances à la Barbade, dans une pension tenue depuis peu par Molly et Tim Kendal. Parmi les autres clients se trouve le major Palgrave, personnage bavard qui lui raconte pourquoi il porte un œil de verre. Il explique à miss Marple qu'un assassin se trouve probablement dans l'île, et s'apprête à en montrer la photographie, mais il s'abstient quand il voit arriver un groupe de quatre autres touristes. Le lendemain, le major Palgrave est retrouvé mort, d'une crise cardiaque semble-t-il. Une jeune employée antillaise de la pension remarque que dans la chambre du major se trouve un médicament qu'elle n'y avait jamais vu auparavant. Après l'exhumation du corps de Palgrave, il est établi qu'il a été empoisonné.
Murder Is Easy (1982)
, 1h30Directed by Claude Whatham
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Bill Bixby, Lesley-Anne Down, Helen Hayes, Olivia de Havilland, Timothy West, Patrick Allen
Roles Lavinia Fullerton
Rating61%
Adaptation du roman d'Agatha Christie, Un meutre est-il facile?
Candleshoe (1977)
, 1h41Directed by Norman Tokar
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Heist films, Children's films
Actors David Niven, Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster, Leo McKern, Sydney Bromley, John Alderson
Roles Lady St. Edmund
Rating67%
Con-artist Harry Bundage (McKern) believes that the lost treasure of pirate captain Joshua St. Edmund is hidden at Candleshoe, the large country estate of Lady St Edmund (Hayes). Having gained access to Captain St. Edmund's hidden will with the help of a corrupt former cleaning woman at Candleshoe, Harry recruits American Casey Brown (Foster)—-an unwanted foster child and hooligan-—into the plot, employing her to pose as Lady St Edmund's granddaughter, the Honourable Margaret, 4th Marchioness of St Edmond, who was kidnapped at age four by her father and subsequently disappeared after her father's death. Casey is the right age to pass for Margaret and possesses several identifying scars that young Margaret was known to have. Casey agrees to go along with the con and discover further clues in exchange for a cut of the treasure.
Victory at Entebbe (1976)
, 1h59Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Dans un avion, Films about hijackings
Actors Anthony Hopkins, Burt Lancaster, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Dreyfuss, Julius Harris, Kirk Douglas
Roles Etta Grossman-Wise
Rating58%
L'histoire se base sur les faits réels survenus en Ouganda en juillet 1976. À la suite du détournement d'un avion d'Air France par des pirates de l'air acquis à la cause palestinienne vers l'aéroport d'Entebbe, un commando israélien est envoyé pour mettre fin à la prise d'otages. Ce raid militaire est officiellement connu sous le nom d’opération Tonnerre, opération Jonathan ou raid d'Entebbe.
, 1h40Directed by Robert Stevenson, Art Stevens, Wolfgang Reitherman, John Lounsbery
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, Spy films, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques, Children's films
Actors Peter Ustinov, Helen Hayes, Clive Revill, Derek Nimmo, Percy Herbert, Hugh Burden
Roles Hettie
Rating58%
Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese spies.
Herbie Rides Again (1974)
, 1h28Directed by Robert Stevenson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Helen Hayes, Ken Berry, Stefanie Powers, Keenan Wynn, John McIntire, Liam Dunn
Roles Mrs. Steinmetz
Rating57%
Ruthless real estate magnate Alonzo Hawk (Keenan Wynn) is pursuing his newest indoor shopping center, the 130-story Hawk Plaza. His only obstacle is an archaic firehouse inhabited by "Grandma" Steinmetz (Helen Hayes), widow of its former owner, Fire Captain Steinmetz, and aunt of mechanic Tennessee Steinmetz who appeared in The Love Bug; her displaced neighbor, flight attendant Nicole Harris (Stefanie Powers); and their sentient machines: Herbie the Love Bug, an orchestrion that chooses its own songs, and a retired cable car known as "Old No. 22". It is explained that Tennessee has gone to Tibet to visit his ailing philosophy teacher, while Herbie's former owner, Jim Douglas, has gone to Europe.
, 1h13Directed by Ted Post
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Themes Films about computing
Actors Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick, Vince Edwards, Myrna Loy, Sylvia Sidney, John Beradino
Roles Sophie Tate Curtis
Rating63%
Residing in the Los Angeles County city of Pasadena, four middle class ladies in their late sixties (Helen Hayes, Myrna Loy, Mildred Natwick and Sylvia Sidney) habitually meet for lunch and exchange small talk with their waitress (Dodo Denney). During the meal they discuss an "amusing" project to create a fictitious profile of a young woman and submit it to a computer dating service. Several days later, they start receiving letters from potential suitors and derive additional amusement from reading them out loud. Meanwhile, after dark, in a car parked in front of her home on a quiet residential street, a young woman (Diane Shalet) becomes alarmed by the aggressive behavior of her date (Vince Edwards) whose attempts to force himself upon her cause her to scramble out of his car and, when he comes out and attempts to manhandle and restrain her, she tearfully runs into the house, as her mother (Margaret Wheeler) calls out through the window, "Ruthie". The man gets back in his car and drives away while his audible thoughts reveal that he has difficulty relating to women and the resulting resentment and rage he feels towards them. He tries to recall the name of another prospect for a relationship and settles on the fictitious "Rebecca" submitted to the "Scientific Associates" computer dating agency by the aged ladies.
Airport (1970)
, 2h17Directed by Henry Hathaway, George Seaton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes La fin du monde, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy, Helen Hayes
Roles Ada Quonsett
Rating65%
Chicago is paralyzed by a snowstorm affecting Lincoln International Airport. A Trans Global Airlines (TGA) Boeing 707 flight crew misjudge their turn off of Runway 29 on to the taxiway, becoming stuck in the snow and closing Runway 29, forcing airport manager Mel Bakersfield (Burt Lancaster) to work overtime. This causes tension with his wife, Cindy (Dana Wynter). Divorce is looming as he nurtures a closer relationship with a co-worker, TGA customer relations agent Tanya Livingston (Jean Seberg). Bakersfield's brother-in-law, Vernon Demarest (Dean Martin), is a TGA captain scheduled to be the checkride captain for TGA to evaluate Captain Anson Harris (Barry Nelson) during TGA's Flight 2 to Rome. Flight 2 is aboard TGA's flagship service craft, a Boeing 707 known as The Golden Argosy. Although Demarest is married to Bakersfield's sister, Sarah (Barbara Hale), he is secretly having an affair with Gwen Meighen (Jacqueline Bisset), chief stewardess on Flight 2, who informs him before the flight that she is pregnant with his child.
Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
, 1h47Directed by Ken Annakin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Sports films, Children's films
Actors Michael Rennie, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, James Donald, Herbert Lom, Laurence Naismith
Roles Hotel guest (uncredited)
Rating69%
Au milieu du XIX siècle en Suisse, un célèbre alpiniste britannique, le capitaine John Winter, souhaite escalader un sommet difficile, la Citadelle. Il se rend dans un petit village mais aucun guide ne souhaite l'accompagner. Un jeune homme du village, Rudi Matt, dont le père est mort quinze ans plus tôt durant une tentative d'ascension de la Citadelle, est déterminé à l'accompagner, avec l'aide de son oncle. Winter parvient également à engager un guide d'un village voisin et concurrent, Emil Saxo. La cordée de quatre hommes entame alors l'ascension du sommet encore inviolé.
Anastasia (1956)
, 1h45Directed by Anatole Litvak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Martita Hunt, Akim Tamiroff, Sacha Pitoëff
Roles Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
Rating69%
Ten years of turmoil have passed since the teenage Anastasia and her family (parents, sisters and brother) were presumed to have been killed by Bolshevik revolutionaries. Does the refugee Anna who has turned up in Paris have the bearing, speech, and intimate knowledge of the imperial family that the real grand duchess would have? Or is she merely a recovering amnesiac with a striking resemblance who has been cleverly groomed by the émigré General Bounine (Brynner) to stake a claim to 10 million pounds left by the Tsar in an English bank? In a series of encounters with former familiars and members of the imperial court, Anna begins to display a confidence and style that astonish her skeptical interlocutors, yet retains our sympathy by seeming more interested in recovering her own identity than the imperial bank account. In a climactic meeting with the Empress in Copenhagen, Anna and the Empress take the measure of each other, alternately projecting imperial self-possession and the anguish of family longing. Meanwhile, Bounine has become increasingly jealous of the attentions the fortune-hunting Prince Paul pays to Anna. At a grand ball at which her engagement to Paul is to be announced, the Empress has a private word with Anna/Anastasia, who subsequently elopes with Bounine.
Main Street to Broadway (1953)
Directed by Tay Garnett, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Mary Murphy, Agnes Moorehead, Rosemary DeCamp, Lionel Barrymore, Herb Shriner, Tallulah Bankhead
Roles Self
Rating60%
My Son John (1952)
, 2h2Directed by Leo McCarey, Ray McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Dean Jagger, Robert Walker, Minor Watson, Frank McHugh
Roles Lucille Jefferson
Rating55%
In uniform, John and Ben Jefferson, strapping blonds who played high school football, attend Sunday Mass with their parents before leaving for army service in Korea. Their older brother, John sends regrets that he can not join their farewell dinner because of his work for the federal government in Washington.