Margaret Sullavan

Famous Firsts Focusing on the debut feature work of famous, and infamous, figures of film Only Yesterday (1933) Director : John M. Stahl Debut film of : Margaret Sullavan, actress By Marilyn Ferdinand According to actress Louise Brooks, Margaret Sullavan remains "mysterious... like a voice singing in the snow." While this description may itself seem a bit inscrutable, it you think about how snow refracts and muffles sound, then there certainly is something to this comparison. Margaret Sullavan was an actress who made only 16 films, almost all of them hard to find and view. She might be entirely forgotten today if not for ... Read Full Story

1933. A snowy small university town in the German Alps. It is the morning of Professor Roth's (Frank Morgan) 60th birthday. His loving family circle comprises his devoted wife who has two very Prussian grown sons from a previous union and two children of their own, a teenaged son and a beloved daughter, Margaret Sullavan. The professor is admired by his colleagues and adored by his students. That evening at their birthday celebration, the family is joined by two childhood friends, ever-the-good-guy James Stewart and usually-a-good-guy, but not here, Robert Young; they both love Sullavan, but the more extrovert Young has staked his claim ... Read Full Story

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