milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Worked at the Harvard Cooperative Bookstore (for ($18 a week) while at drama school
1928 
Joined the University Players, community theater at Falmouth, M assachusetts (summer)
1928 
Made social debut in Norfolk, Virginia (winter)
1929 
Returned to University Players
1929 
Made stage debut in summer touring production of Preston Sturges's "Strictly Dishonorable"
1929 
Rejoined University Players in Baltimore for stock season; co-starring with Henry Fonda
1931 
Broadway debut, "A Modern Virgin"
1933 
First Broadway success as replacement for Marguerite Churchill in "Dinner at Eight"; signed by Universal on her terms ($1,200 weekly, three years, nonexclusive and with approval rights)
1933 
Film debut, "Only Yesterday"
1936 
On expiration of Universal contract, returned to Broadway in non-starring role in "Stage Door"
1947 
London stage debut, "The Voice of the Turtle"
1948 
Appeared on TV in first "Studio One" production
1950 
Returned to films after an absence of seven years in "No Sad Songs For Me"
1956 
Withdrew from hit comedy "Janus" for health reasons; disappeared on day scheduled to appear on TV in "The Pilot"; committed herself to a sanitarium for nervous exhaustion;
1960 
Was appearing in out-of-town tryout of "Sweet Love Remember'd" in New Haven when she was found dead of a drug overdose
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