Helen Hayes (1917 - 1976)

Helen's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Hayes family tree.

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Helen's Family

Foster Thomas Hayes

Ada Harrison Hayes

Helen Hayes

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Foster Thomas Hayes

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Ada Harrison Hayes

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Minnie Lee (Wilson) Hayes, Barton

Riss Hayes

Helen Hayes and Marian Hailey

Helen Hayes I LOVE THIS STAMP!

Helen Hayes

Helen Hayes

Helen Hayes and James Stewart

Michael Charles Cross

Helen Hayes, Miss Marple

Helen Hayes

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In 1917, in the year that Helen Hayes was born, it is believed that a worldwide influenza pandemic began in Asia. By 1920, it is estimated that 50 - 100 million died throughout the world (3 - 5% of the population). In the U.S. alone, 500,000 perished from what came to be called the Spanish Flu or the 1918 flu.

In 1921, Helen was just 4 years old when the silent film The Sheik, directed by George Melford and starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres (also featuring Adolphe Menjou) debuted on October 21st. Critics weren't enthusiastic but the public loved it - in the first few weeks 125,000 people had seen the movie - and it eventually exceeded $1 million in ticket sales. And Rudolph Valentino, an Italian American, became the heartthrob of a female generation.

In 1955, at the age of 38 years old, Helen was alive when on September 30th, movie star James Dean, 24, died in a car accident. He was headed in his new Porsche 550 to a race in Salinas California when, traveling at 85 mph, he collided with a 1950 Ford Tudor, also speeding, driven by a 23 year old college student. Dean died, his passenger and the other driver survived.

In 1968, by the time she was 51 years old, on April 4th, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights leader, was shot and killed by an assassin in Memphis. James Earl Ray was apprehended and plead guilty to shooting Dr. King. Ray died in jail in 1998.

In 1976, in the year of Helen Hayes's passing, The United States celebrated the Bicentennial of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. It was a year long celebration, with the biggest events taking place on July 4th.