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Life Magazine-January 24,1944-104 pages. This vintage Life Magazine-which originally sold for ten cents-features a full cover photo of actress Margaret Sullavan. The magazine also features a 2 page article with photos on Margret Sullavan and her starring role in the Broadway Play-"The Voice of the Turtle".Sullavan was born Margaret Brooke. Having studied dance and drama since childhood, she debuted onstage at age 17 with the now-celebrated University Players, a troupe which included several other future stars, including Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda. Three years later she made it to Broadway, and in 1933 she signed a lucrative film contract. For most of the next decade she was busy as a lead actress, but she had frequent disputes with her studio so occasionally returned to Broadway. In films she tended to be cast in melodramatic tear-jerkers, although she also proved her talents in straight dramas and sophisticated comedies. For her work in Three Comrades (1938) she won the New York film critics "Best Actress" award. For her work in Broadway's The Voice of the Turtle (1943) she won the Drama Critics Award. She retired from the screen in 1943, returning in only one additional film, No Sad Songs for Me (1950). In the late '40s she began to lose her hearing, and eventually she was nearly deaf; nevertheless, she continued a successful stage career. Her four husbands included actor Henry Fonda, director William Wyler, and producer-agent Leland Hayward. At 49 she took an overdose of barbiturates and died; her death was ruled a suicide. Her daughter, Brooke Hayward, wrote a memoir of the tragic years leading to Sullavan's death called Haywire.The Life Magazine has been autographed on the front cover by Margaret Sullavan with a fountain pen in brown.......................BOTH MAGAZINE AND AUTOGRAPH ARE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION.....................Product Videos
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