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Known as "The First lady of the American Theater", Helen Hayes had a legendary career on stage and in films and television that spanned over eighty years. Hayes was born in Washington, D.C., to Catherine Estelle "Essie" Hayes, an actress who worked in touring companies, and Francis van Arnum Brown, a clerk and salesman. Her maternal grandparents were Irish. A child actress in the first decade of the 20th century, by the time she turned twenty in 1920 she was well on her way to a landmark career on the American stage, becoming perhaps the greatest female star of the theatre during the 1930s and 1940s. She made a handful of scattered films during the silent era and in 1931 was signed to MGM with great fanfare to begin a career starring in films. Her first three films, Arrowsmith (1931), The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931), and A Farewell to Arms (1932), were great hits and she would win the 1932 Oscar for Best Actress for her work in Madelon Claudet. Alas, her lack of screen glamour worked against her becoming a box office star during the golden era of Hollywood,
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Helen Young Hayes
American investment fund manager
Helen Young Hayes (born July 11, 1962, in Oakland, California)[1] is an investment fund manager best known for her success in running the Janus Worldwide Fund and Janus Overseas Fund. Prior to that she was a research associate at Fred Alger Management.[2] She is a member of the Advisory Committee at Red Rocks Capital LLC.[3]
Hayes attended Starkville High School and Yale University.[4] In 2002 Hayes was promoted to oversee all Janus funds.[5]
Morning Star analyst Russell Kinnell picked her as the analyst most similar to Peter Lynch,[6] and in 1997 she was named Mutual Fund Manager of the Year.[7] She retired from Janus in 2003.[8] Hayes now owns Activate Workforce Solutions, a company that mentors underutilized workers.[9]
Personal life
In 1989, Hayes was aboard United Airlines Flight 232 which crashed in Sioux City, Iowa.[10] Her younger sister Claire ran the Janus Olympus Fund.[11] As a hobby, Hayes run
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