Margaret Sullavan Another actress with a distinctive voice—husky in this case—was Margaret Sullavan, who began her career on stage in New York with the University Players, a repertory company that was also the proving ground for Henry Fonda (who she later married) and James Stewart. She came to movies in 1933 and was at her best in comedies such as The Good Fairy and, opposite her old comrade James Stewart, Ernst Lubitsch’s wonderful 1940 version of The Shop Around the Corner (fig. 97), one of the great films of the golden age. A volatile personality, she married director William Wyler and super agent Leland Hayward, as well as Fonda, and eventually died of an overdose of barbiturates. left 96. Next Time We Love U.S. (1936) Universal Insert 36 × 14 in. (91.4 × 35.6 cm)
above 97. The Shop Around
the Corner
U.S. (1940) Loew’s/MGM One-sheet 41 × 27 in. (104.1 × 68.6 cm)