Family tree of Helen HAYES

Actor

American Born Helen Hayes BROWN

American actress

Born on October 10, 1900 in Washington, D.C., USA , United States

Died on March 17, 1993 in Nyack, New York, USA

Born on october 10 51

Deceased on march 17 34

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Edwards

Henry

1805 -

Grant

Margret

1807 -

Brown

James L.

1831 -

Edwards

Charlotte A.

1834 -

Hayes

J. Edward

1839 - 1900

Ann

1833 - 1910

Brown

Francis W.

1873 -

Hayes

Estella Catherine

1876 - 1920

Brown

Helen Hayes

1900 - 1993

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Helen Hayes was born in Washington D.C. Her mother, Catherine Estelle (née Hayes), or Essie, was an aspiring actress who worked in touring companies. Her father, Francis van Arnum Brown, worked at a number of jobs, including as a clerk at the Washington Patent Office and as a manager and salesman for a wholesale butcher. Hayes' Irish Catholic maternal grandparents emigrated from Ireland during the Irish Potato Famine;

Hayes began a stage career at an early age. She said her stage debut was as a 5-year-old singer at Washington's Belasco Theatre (on Lafayette Square, across from the White House.) By the age of ten, she had made a short film called Jean and the Calico Doll, but moved to Hollywood only when her husband, playwright Charles MacArthur, signed a Hollywood deal. She attended the Academy of the Sacred Heart Convent in Washington and graduated in 1917.

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