Helen Hayes MacArthur (October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993)
Actress Helen Hayes has been acclaimed as The First Lady of American
Theatre whose career spanned almost 80 years. She became one of the
first people to win an EGOT, which is an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and
a Tony Award. She made her stage debut at Washington’s Belasco Theatre
as a singer at the age of five. Her first sound film was The Sin of Madelon
Claudet (1931).
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Elaine Stritch (February 2, 1925 – July 17, 2014)
Stritch was an actress and singer, best known for her work on Broadway. She
appeared in numerous stage plays and musicals, feature films, and many TV
programs. She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1995.
Stritch died early this morning at her home in Birmingham, Michigan following
a period of poor health.
James Francis Cagney, Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986)
Cagney won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of
performances. He is best remembered for playing tough guys
in movies like The Public Enemy (1931), Taxi! (1932), Angels
with Dirty Faces (1938) and White Heat (1949). Orson Welles
said of Cagney that he was "maybe the greatest actor who
ever appeared in front of a camera."
