Born Helen Hayes Dark brown within Washington, DC, she began a stage career at an early age. By X, she experienced manufactured the short film known as Jean & a Calico Doll, however she exclusively moved to Hollywood when her husband, dramatist Charles MacArthur, signed a Hollywood treat. Her healthy film debut was The Sin of Madelon Claudet, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She followed that sustaining starring roles within Arrowsmith (with Myrna Loy), A Farewell to Arms (with actor Gary Cooper whom Hayes admitted to finding super attractive), The White Sister, What Every Woman Knows (a reprise from either her Broadway hit), & Vanessa: Her Love Story. Nevertheless, she never became the fan preferred.

Hayes & MacArthur one of these days returned to Broadway, and she starred for threesome years within Victoria Regina. Finally, the theater was known as around her honor. Around 1953 she was a number one-ever recipient of the Sarah Siddons Award for her work inside Chicago theatre, repeating when a winner within 1969. She returned to Hollywood in the 1950s, and her movie star began to rise. She starred inside My Son John and Anastasia, and won a Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1970 for Airport. She followed that higher sustaining many roles inside Disney films such as Herbie Rides Again, One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing and Candleshoe.

Hayes wrote triplet memoirs: The Gift of Joy, In Reflection & Our Life inside 3 Acts. A few of the themes inside these books include her link to to Roman Catholicism after having been denied communion from either the Church for the length of her marriage to MacArthur, world health organization was a Protestant and a divorcé, and a demise of her sole girl, Mary, world health organization was an aspirant actress, from either infantile paralysis. Hayes's boy, James MacArthur, went inside to the career within acting as well, starring in Hawaii Five-O on television.

Hayes wwhen a pro-business Republican, world health organization attended the previous Republican National Convention prior to her demise, which wwhen held around Colorado, however she was non as far-reactionary as certain others (e.g. Adolphe Menjou, Ginger Rogers, John Wayne, etc) in the Hollywood community of that time.

She has the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6220 Hollywood Blvd.

A Helen Hayes Award for theater in the Washington D.C. region is known as around her honor.

Helen Hayes died in (St. Patrick's Day) March 17, 1993 of natural causes, shortly fallowing a demise of her friend Lillian Gish, who got mass produced Hayes a beneficiary of her estate. Hayes was interred in the Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, New York.

Stage Appearances
''Miss Hawke's May Ball (1905) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1905) Babe in the Woods (1908) Jack the Giant Killer (1909) A Royal Family (1909) Children's Dancing Kerrness (1909) The Prince Chap (1909) A Poor Relation (1909) Old Dutch (1909) The Summer Widowers (1910) The Barrier (1911) Little Lord Fauntleroy (1911) The Never Homes (1911) The Seven Sisters (1911) Mary Jane's Pa (1911) The June Bride (1912) The Girl with Green Eyes (1913) His House in Order (1913) A Royal Family (1913) The Prince Chap (1913) The Prince and the Pauper (1913) The Prodigal Husband (1914) The Dummy (1916) On Trial (1916) It Pays to Advertise (1917) Romance (1917) Just a Woman (1917) Mile-a-Minute Kendall (1917) Rich Man, Poor Man (1917) Alma, Where Do You Live? (1917) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1917) Within the Law (1917) Pollyanna (1917) Penrod (1918) Dear Brutus (1918) On the Hiring Line (1919) Clarence (1919) The Golden Age (1919) Bab (1920) The Wren (1921) The Golden Days (1921) To the Ladies (1922) No Siree!: An Anonymous Entertaiment by the Vicious Circus of the Hotel Algonquin (1922) Lonely Lee (1923) We Moderns (1924) The Dragon (1924) She Stoops to Conquer (1924) Dancing Mothers (1924) Quarantine (1924) Caesar and Cleopatra (1925) The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1925) Young Blood (1925) What Every Woman Knows (1926) Coquette (1927) Coquette (1928) (London version) Mr. Gilhooley (1930) Petticoat Influence (1930) The Good Fairy (1931) Mary of Scotland (1933) Caesar and Cleopatra (1935) Victoria Regina (1935) Victoria Regina (1936) (revival) The Merchant of Venice (1938) What Every Woman Knows (1938) Victoria Regina (1938) (revival) Ladies and Gentleman (1939) Twelfth Night (1940) Candle in the Wind (1941) Harriet (1943) Alice-Sit-By-The-Fire (1946) Happy Birthday (1946) The Glass Menagerie (1948) Good Housekeeping (1949) The Wisteria Trees (1950) Mrs. McThing (1952) Gentleman, The Queens (1955) The Skin of Our Teeth (1955) Lovers, Villans and Fools (1956) The Glass Menagerie (1956) Time Remembered (1957) A Adventure (1958) Mid-Summer (1958) A Touch of the Poet (1958) The Cherry Orchard (1960) The Chalk Garden (1960) Shakespeare Revisited: A Program for Two Players (1962)*Good Morning, Miss Dove (1964) The White House (1964) The Circle (1966) The School for Scandal (1966) Right You Are If You Think You Are (1966) We Comrades Three (1966) You Can't Take It With You (1966) The Show-Off (1967) The Show-Off (1968) (return engagement) The Front Page (1969) Harvey (1970) Long Day's Journey Into Night (1971)

Filmography
The Weavers of Life (1917) Babs (1920) The Dancing Town (1928) (short subject) The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) Arrowsmith (1931) A Farewell to Arms (1932) The Son-Daughter (1932) The White Sister (1933) Another Language (1933) Night Flight (1933) Crime Without Passion (1934) What Every Woman Knows (1934) Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935) Hollywood Goes to Town (1938) (short subject) Stage Door Canteen (1943) My Son John (1952) Main Street to Broadway (1953) Anastasia (1956) Third Man on the Mountain (1959) The Challenge of Ideas (1961) (short subject) (narrator) Airport (1970) Herbie Rides Again (1974) One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975) Candleshoe'' (1977)