13 Facts About Julie Haydon

Julie Haydon then toured with Minnie Maddern Fiske in Mrs Bumstead Leigh.

Some people, including Julie Haydon, have held that it was Julie Haydon and not Fay Wray who provided the heroine's bone-chilling screams in the King Kong film of 1933, but this claim is disputed.

Julie Haydon debuted on Broadway in 1935 in Bright Star by Philip Barry, which ran for only seven performances before closing.

Julie Haydon starred in the 1942 Broadway production of Saroyan's play Hello Out There.

Julie Haydon was the original Laura Wingfield in the first production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie in 1945.

Julie Haydon performed in episodes of Kraft Television Theater, Armstrong Circle Theater, The United States Steel Hour, and Robert Montgomery Presents.

Julie Haydon wrote occasional magazine articles about the actors she had worked with in her career.

Julie Haydon recorded two albums for Folkways Records in the early 1960s, George Jean Nathan's The New American Credo and Colette's Music Hall : By Colette.

Julie Haydon played the role of Amanda Wingfield in revivals of The Glass Menagerie, and in 1980, returned to New York to perform the role off-off-Broadway.

In 1955, at the age of 45, Julie Haydon married 73-year-old drama critic George Jean Nathan, who died three years later.

Julie Haydon never remarried and worked as a drama coach as well as appearing onstage in community theater and college productions.

Julie Haydon died on December 24,1994, in La Crosse, Wisconsin, of abdominal cancer, aged 84.

Julie Haydon was buried next to her husband in the Cemetery of the Gate of Heaven in Hawthorne, New York.