Editing Margaret Sullavan (section)

==Death==
On January 1, 1960, at about 5:30&nbsp;p.m., Sullavan was found in bed, barely alive and unconscious, in a hotel room in [[New Haven, Connecticut]]. Her copy of the script to ''Sweet Love Remembered'', in which she was then starring during its tryout in New Haven, was found open beside her, as well as a bottle of prescribed pills. Sullavan was rushed to Grace New Haven Hospital, but shortly after 6:00&nbsp;p.m. she was pronounced dead on arrival.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mQ4rAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Actress+Dies+at+48%22.+Reading+Eagle.&pg=PA12&article_id=3032,379546 |title=Actress Dies at 48 |access-date=October 15, 2014 |date=January 2, 1960 |newspaper=Reading Eagle}}</ref> She was 50 years old.

No note was found to indicate suicide, and initially no conclusion was reached as to whether her death was the result of a deliberate or an accidental overdose of barbiturates.<ref>Quirk, pp. 166–167.</ref> Ultimately, the county coroner officially ruled Sullavan's death an accidental overdose.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nA4rAAAAIBAJ&sjid=q5sFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4448,1702521&dq=margaret+sullavan+death&hl=en |title=Sullavan Death Laid to Barbiturates |date=January 5, 1960 |work=Reading Eagle |access-date=February 25, 2013}}</ref> After a private memorial service in [[Greenwich, Connecticut]], with such attendees as former friend and co-star [[Joan Crawford]], theatre producer [[Martin Gabel]], and actress [[Sandra Church]], Sullavan was interred at [[St. Mary's, Whitechapel|Saint Mary's Whitechapel Episcopal Churchyard]] in [[Lancaster, Virginia]].<ref>{{cite news |title=SULLAVAN DEATH HELD ACCIDENTAL; Coroner Issues Report – Many Attend Memorial Service in Greenwich |date=January 5, 1960 |work=The New York Times |page=27}}</ref>

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Margaret Sullavan has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1751 Vine Street.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/margaret-sullivan/ |title=Hollywood Star Walk |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=February 25, 2013}}</ref> She was inducted, posthumously, into the [[American Theater Hall of Fame]] in 1981.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/03/theater/26-elected-theater-hall-fame-26-broadway-voted-into-theater-hall-fame.html "26 Elected to the Theater Hall of Fame."] ''The New York Times'', March 3, 1981.</ref>

Sullavan was the favorite actress of silent-film beauty [[Louise Brooks]], who said Sullavan was "the person I would be if I could be anyone" and described her as “Strange, fey, mysterious—like a voice singing in the snow.” Brooks thought Sullavan's life could only be understood by her love of Leland Hayward, even after their divorce. Brooks wrote this: "After he left her to marry [[Slim Keith|Nancy (Slim) Hawks]] in 1947, this terrifyingly self-willed woman shredded her career through the following twelve years with her struggle to repossess him. When Nancy divorced him there was a flaming period of hope in 1959. Then came the news of LeLand's decision to marry [[Pamela Harriman|Pamela Churchill]]—and she sank in to despair and death."<ref>Louise Brooks, ″[[Lulu in Hollywood]]″ (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000, pp. xxxii & 111). {{ISBN|978-0816637317}}</ref>