Movies by Helen Hayes
As part of the cast:
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The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)
Cast: Heywood Hale Broun, Margalo Gillmore, Ruth Gordon …
Directed by: Aviva Slesin
From 1919 to 1929, a legendary group of writers, critics, editors and humorists met daily for lunch at New York's Algonquin Hotel. This Oscar-winning documentary explores the urbane…
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Agatha Christie Classic Mystery Collection: Murder with Mirrors (1985)
Cast: Helen Hayes, Bette Davis, John Mills …
Directed by: Dick Lowry
Helen Hayes returns for her second stint as spinster sleuth Miss Jane Marple, who's called to the sprawling country estate of her longtime friend Carrie Louise Serrocold (Bette Davis)…
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Agatha Christie Classic Mystery Collection: A Caribbean Mystery (1983)
Cast: Helen Hayes, Barnard Hughes, Jameson Parker …
Directed by: Robert Michael Lewis
Miss Jane Marple (Helen Hayes) happily abandons her sleuthing duties to enjoy a tropical vacation -- until a guest is murdered at the posh Caribbean resort in this small-screen adaptation of…
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Agatha Christie Classic Mystery Collection: Murder Is Easy (1981)
Cast: Bill Bixby, Olivia de Havilland, Jonathan Pryce …
Directed by: Claude Whatham
While on a train to London, American tourist Luke Williams (Bill Bixby) meets the seemingly unhinged Lavinia Fullerton (Helen Hayes), who says she has proof of a string of murders. When…
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Candleshoe (1977)
Cast: Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster, Leo McKern …
Directed by: Norman Tokar
A savvy street urchin named Casey Brown (Jodie Foster) and an ex-con (Leo McKern) take advantage of an elderly woman, Lady St. Edmund (Helen Hayes), by having Casey pose as her estranged…
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Herbie Rides Again (1974)
Cast: Helen Hayes, Ken Berry, Stefanie Powers …
Directed by: Robert Stevenson
Herbie the Love Bug's new owner, strong-willed Mrs. Steinmetz (Helen Hayes), rejects developer Alonzo Hawk's (Keenan Wynn) offer to buy her home. Lawyer Willoughby Whitfield (Ken…
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Airport / Airport 1975 (1970)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg …
Directed by: George Seaton, Jack Smight
The first Airport film focuses on a 12-hour period at a major airport where manager Mel Bakersfeld (Burt Lancaster) must deal with a powerful blizzard, a blocked runway and a mentally…
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Airport (1970)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Van Heflin …
Directed by: George Seaton
Based on Arthur Hailey's best-selling novel, this is the granddaddy of disaster movies, starring Burt Lancaster as a harried airport manager facing an imminent blizzard, spineless…
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Anastasia (1956)
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes …
Directed by: Anatole Litvak
In 1928 Paris, a group of exiled White Russians claims to find Anastasia (Ingrid Bergman, who won a Best Actress Oscar), the only living heir of Czar Nicholas II. The entire Romanoff royal…
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My Son John (1952)
Cast: Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Dean Jagger …
Directed by: Leo McCarey
Is he or isn't he? Following criticism of her religious views and her husband's (Dean Jagger) patriotism, upon suspicion, Lucille Jefferson (Helen Hayes) follows her arrogant son,…
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Stage Door Canteen (1943)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Ray Bolger, Ralph Bellamy …
Directed by: Frank Borzage
During World War II, New York's Stage Door Canteen served as a friendly stop for off-duty soldiers. This star-studded romance tells the tale of Eileen (Cheryl Walker), a Canteen hostess…
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Night Flight (1933)
Cast: John Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Clark Gable …
Directed by: Clarence Brown
When polio erupts in Rio de Janeiro, French air-mail pilots must risk their lives to fly through the Andes and retrieve a much-needed serum in Santiago. Famous brothers John and Lionel…
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A Farewell to Arms (1932)
Cast: Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou …
Directed by: Frank Borzage
While serving in the Italian ambulance corps during World War I, adventurous American Lt. Frederick Henry (Gary Cooper) falls in love with English nurse Catherine Barkley (Helen Hayes). But…
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Arrowsmith (1931)
Cast: Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett …
Directed by: John Ford
Med student Martin Arrowsmith's (Ronald Colman) future is so bright it's blinding, but his trajectory is waylaid after he marries Leora Tozer (Helen Hayes) and settles down in a…
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The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
Cast: Helen Hayes, Lewis Stone, Neil Hamilton …
Directed by: Edgar Selwyn
Edgar Selwyn helmed this tearjerker about naive French lass Madelon Claudet (Helen Hayes, in an Oscar-winning turn), who falls for an American artist (Neil Hamilton), only to be cast aside…