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Even after a coroner's verdict of accidental death, show business gossip ran on. The overdose of barbiturates that killed Actress Margaret Sullavan (TIME, Jan. 11) fitted too neatly into a pattern of eccentric behavior: departure from a Broadway show because of "ill health," the TV performance canceled at the last moment because she did not "feel up to the part." But last week it was Margaret who released a tragic explanation of her behavior. By leaving her temporal bones (which include the inner and middle ear) to the cause of medical research on deafness, she gave away...
...Maggie Sullavan's difficulty probably existed for a great deal longer than she was willing to admit. "It didn't seem to affect her at home," says her husband, Kenneth Wagg. "Most people take years before they finally tell themselves or a doctor that they're getting deaf," says famed Ear Surgeon Julius Lempert, to whom Maggie went for help early in 1948, By that time she had lost 40% of the hearing in her left ear, 35% of the hearing in her right. "Deafness," says Dr. Lempert, "was the explanation of her often strange behavior...
...close friends. Then, two years ago, she went to Dr. Greydon Boyd, had a different type of operation. This was an effort to jar loose the locked bones of her right ear. While she worked on her last show, Sweet Love Remember'd, Maggie Sullavan was still sitting out the waiting period which would determine the operation's permanent success. Her plans for the future, insists Dr. Lempert, were not those of a woman bent on suicide. The very fact that she died with a script of Sweet Love Remember'd beside her suggests, says he, that...
Died. Margaret Sullavan, 48, cello-voiced actress who brought a youthful vibrancy to a variety of roles on stage (The Voice of the Turtle, The Deep Blue Sea), screen (Three Comrades, No Sad Songs for Me) and TV. married a series of show-business personalities: Actor Henry Fonda. Director William Wyler, Producer Leland Hay ward (fourth and last husband: Businessman Kenneth Arthur Wagg); presumably by an overdose of barbiturates; in New Haven, Conn...
...hired for the Broadway production of Galsworthy's The Roof. When the vogue for English actors faded, Bob changed his name to Brice Hutchens, emerged as a juvenile lead in the Ziegfeld Follies and, finally, adopted a Texas accent and took his own name to play opposite Margaret Sullavan in Hollywood...