The Indomitable Helen Hayes A Force in the World of Theatre

PARIS, June 11 -- Helen Hayes arrived here Friday at the end of a gruelling three-and-a-half-month tour of fifteen European and Middle Eastern countries ... Despite her size-she stood only 5 feet tall and weighed about 100 pounds-she was a strong, recognizable stage presence, embodying a restraint ... Her sound film debut was The Sin of Madelon Claudet, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She followed that with starring roles in ... Helen Hayes Awards are a theater award named for the famed actress Helen Hayes to recognize excellence in professional theater in the Washington, DC area since ... The talented Helen Hayes—one of only 12 people who have won a Tony, Emmy, Oscar and a Grammy—called this Italianate Victorian-style stunner home ... Actress Helen Hayes, photographed with her theater trunk in her Nyack, New York home; undated. Stock Photo A theater name may disappear, but we always will remember Hayes, the actress who led a big life on Broadway and shared her volunteer spirit and ... Known as the “First Lady of the American Theatre," actress Helen Hayes is one of only two women who have won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards. Helen Hayes was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname 'First Lady of the American Theatre' and was ... Ask my son [actor James MacArthur]. I have a hard time restraining that. My husband used to call me the little corporal, after Napoleon." She is ...