Haydon debuted on Broadway in 1935 in Bright Star by Philip Barry, which ran for only seven performances before closing.
Her next Broadway production, Shadow and Substance by Paul Vincent Carroll, in which she played a saintly maid, was more successful, running for nine months in 1938.
Next, in 1939, she created the role of the prostitute, Kitty Duval, in William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Time of Your Life.
She also starred in the 1942 Broadway production of Saroyan's play Hello Out There.
Haydon was the original Laura Wingfield in the first production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie in 1945.
Her final appearance on Broadway came in 1947's Our Lan'.
Haydon debuted on Broadway in 1935 in Bright Star by Philip Barry, which ran for only seven performances before closing. Her next Broadway production, Shadow and Substance by Paul Vincent Carroll, in which she played a saintly maid, was more successful, running for nine months in 1938. Next, in 1939, she created the role of the prostitute, Kitty Duval, in William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Time of Your Life. She also starred in the 1942 Broadway production of Saroyan's play Hello Out There. Haydon was the original Laura Wingfield in the first production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie in 1945. Her final appearance on Broadway came in 1947's Our Lan'.
Julie Haydon