Helen Hayes was one of the most celebrated actresses in American history and was widely known as the "First Lady of the American Theatre." Active on stage and screen from 1905 to 1987, she became the first person to achieve what is now known as the Triple Crown of Acting and was…
Robert Earl Jones (1910–2006) was a pioneering American stage and screen actor whose long career spanned early Black theater, classic Hollywood, and postwar Broadway. Born in Mississippi, Jones left school at a young age and worked with his family as a sharecropper before…
