Raised by paternal grandmother

First appeared on stage as Pease-Blossom in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at Holy Cross Academy

Professional stage debut at age five as Prince Charles in the Columbia Players production of "The Royal Family" in Washington

Member of the Columbia Players' for four season; appeared in "Little Lord Fauntleroy", "The Prince Chap" and "The Prince and the Pauper" while attending Holy Cross (usually appearing in two plays a summer)

Broadway acting debut, "Old Dutch" (under the management of Lew Fields)

Short film debut, "Jean and the Calico Cat"

Starred on Broadway as the title character in "Pollyanna"; toured with production through 1918

Feature film debut, "The Weavers of Life"

First major Hollywood film, "The Sin of Madelon Claudet"

Made transition from popular stage actress to serious actress with the title role in Maxwell Anderson's "Mary of Scotland"

Starred on Broadway as Queen Victoria in "Victoria Regina"; toured in play through 1938

Hosted own radio program, "The Helen Hayes Theatre"

Triumphed on Broadway as Harriet Beecher Stowe in "Harriet"

London stage debut as Amanda Wingfield in "The Glass Menagerie" (directed by John Gielgud)

Returned to New York stage after daughter's death in "The Wisteria Tree"

TV debut in "The Late Christopher Bean" on "Pulitzer Prize Playhouse"

Debut as a stage producer on Broadway, "Mary Rose"

Paris stage debut as Mrs Antrobus in "The Skin of Our Teeth"

Fulton Theater on Broadway, renamed the Helen Hayes Theater in her honor (razed in 1984 to make way for the Marriott Marquis Hotel)

Travelled through 28 different countries throughout South America and Europe on a US State Department sponsored tour starring in "The Glass Menagerie" and "The Skin of Our Teeth"

Formed the Helen Hayes Repertory Company, which sponsored university tours of Shakespeare recitals

Joined the APA-Phoenix Repertory Company

Retired from the stage due to an allergic reaction to stage dust

Second theater (formerly the Little Theater) renamed in her honor as the Helen Hayes Theater (after the previous theater was razed to build a hotel on the site)

Hospitalized for exhaustion February