Editing Margaret Sullavan (section)

===Films with James Stewart===
Sullavan's co-starring roles with James Stewart are among the highlights of their early careers. In 1935, Sullavan had decided on doing ''[[Next Time We Love]]''. She had strong reservations about the story, but had to "work-off the damned contract."<ref>Quirk, p. 59.</ref> The script contained a role that she thought might be ideal for Stewart, who was the best friend of Sullavan's first husband, actor Henry Fonda. Years earlier, during a casual conversation with some fellow actors on Broadway, Sullavan predicted that Stewart would become a major Hollywood star.<ref>Donald Dewey, p. 115.</ref>

[[File:The Shopworn Angel trailer.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Sullavan and Stewart in ''The Shopworn Angel'' (1938)]]

By 1936, Stewart was a contract player at MGM but securing only small parts in B-movies. Sullavan, under contract with Universal, suggested that the studio test Stewart as her leading man. He was borrowed from MGM to star with Sullavan in ''[[Next Time We Love]]''. The inexperienced Stewart had been nervous and unsure of himself during the early stages of production, and director [[Edward H. Griffith]], began bullying him.<ref>Quirk, p. 60.</ref> However, Sullavan believed in Stewart and spent evenings coaching him and helping him scale down his awkward mannerisms and hesitant speech that were soon to be famous. "It was Margaret Sullavan who made James Stewart a star," Griffith later said. Bill Grady of MGM said: "That boy came back from Universal so changed I hardly recognized him."<ref>Quirk, pp. 60–61.</ref> Gossip in [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] held that Sullavan's husband [[William Wyler]] was suspicious about her rehearsing with Stewart privately.<ref>Quirk, p. 62-63.</ref> When Sullavan divorced Wyler in 1936 and married [[Leland Hayward]] that same year, they moved into a colonial house just a block away from that of Stewart.<ref>Hayward, ''Haywire''. Jonathan Cape Ltd., p. 72.</ref> Stewart's frequent visits to the Sullavan/Hayward home soon restoked the rumors of his romantic feelings for Sullavan.

Sullavan and Stewart's second film together was ''[[The Shopworn Angel]]'' (1938).<ref>Quirk, p. 93.</ref> [[Walter Pidgeon]], who also starred in the film, later recalled: "I really felt like the odd-man-out in that one. It was really all Jimmy and Maggie ... It was so obvious he was in love with her. He came absolutely alive in his scenes with her, playing with a conviction and a sincerity I never knew him to summon away from her."<ref>Quirk, p. 92.</ref> Sullavan and Stewart appeared in four films together between 1936 and 1940 (''Next Time We Love'', ''The Shopworn Angel'', ''[[The Shop Around the Corner]]'' and ''[[The Mortal Storm]]'').