![]() ![]() Parts of the original Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway were used to construct the Shakespeare Center on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, which Hayes dedicated with Joseph Papp in 1982. Hayes's consent to raze the theatre named for her was sought and given, though she had no ownership interest in the building. In the 1980s, business interests wished to raze that theatre and four others to construct a large hotel that included the Marquis Theatre. In 1955, the Fulton Theatre was renamed for her. Her performance in Anastasia was considered a comeback-she had suspended her career for several years due to her daughter Mary's death and her husband's failing health. She followed that up with several roles in Disney films such as Herbie Rides Again, One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing and Candleshoe. She starred in My Son John (1952) and Anastasia (1956), and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as an elderly stowaway in the disaster film Airport (1970). She returned to Hollywood in the 1950s, and her film star began to rise. In 1953, she was the first-ever recipient of the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre, repeating as the winner in 1969. Barrie's play Mary Rose at the ANTA Playhouse. In 1951, she was involved in the Broadway revival of J.M. ![]() ![]() Hayes in the film What Every Woman Knows (1934) She attended the Academy of the Sacred Heart Convent in Washington and graduated in 1917. Hayes attended Dominican Academy's prestigious primary school, on Manhattan's Upper East Side, from 1910 to 1912, appearing there in The Old Dutch, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and other performances. Hayes's Catholic maternal grandparents emigrated from Ireland during the Great Famine. Her father, Francis van Arnum Brown, worked at a number of jobs, including as a clerk at the Washington Patent Office and as a manager and salesman for a wholesale butcher. Her mother, Catherine Estelle "Essie" (née Hayes), was an aspiring actress who worked in touring companies. Helen Hayes Brown was born in Washington, D.C., on October 10, 1900. Helen Hayes is regarded as one of the greatest leading ladies of the 20th-century theatre. When that venue was torn down in 1982, the nearby Little Theatre was renamed in her honor. In 1955, the former Fulton Theatre on 46th Street in New York City's Theatre District was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre. The annual Helen Hayes Awards, which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in greater Washington, D.C., since 1984, are her namesake. In 1988, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986. She was also the first person to win the Triple Crown of Acting to date, the only other people to have accomplished both are Rita Moreno and Viola Davis. She eventually received the nickname " First Lady of American Theatre" and was the second person and first woman to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award (an EGOT). Helen Hayes MacArthur ( née Brown Octo– March 17, 1993) was an American actress whose career spanned eighty-two years. ![]()
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