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Lived for many years in an historic house in Nyack, New York called "Pretty Penny." Located at 235 North Broadway, she regularly offered tours of her well maintained gardens to the local garden clubs. The house was purchased by television personality and actress Rosie O'Donnell, a few years after her death, from her surviving son, actor James MacArthur. Pre-eminent US stage actress. Interred at Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, New York, USA. Charter member of the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1973. She was regarded as the "First Lady of the American Theatre." She made frequent trips to hospitals because of asthma attacks aggravated by backstage dust. When asthma ended her theatrical career, Hayes wrote books and raised funds for organizations that fight asthma. Won three Tony Awards, two Best Actress (Dramatic) awards -- one in 1947 for "Happy Birthday," an award that was shared with Ingrid Bergman for "Joan of Lorraine," another in 1958, for "Time Remembered" -- and a third, Special Tony Award in 1980, namely: The Lawrence Langer Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre. She was also nominated as Best Actress (Dramatic) in 1970 for a revival of "Harvey." Was a supporter of the Republican Party, attending all the conventions up until her death. First actress to win an Oscar for playing a prostitute in The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931), her first talkie Although she played Ingrid Bergman's grandmother in Anastasia (1956), she was less than fifteen years older than she. As of 2008, she is one of only six actors who have a 2-0 winning record when nominated for an acting Oscar. The others are Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937); Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind (1939) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951); Sally Field for Norma Rae (1979) and Places in the Heart (1984); 'Kevin Spacey' for The Usual Suspects (1995) and American Beauty (1999); and Hilary Swank for Boys Don't Cry (1999) and Million Dollar Baby (2004). Two Broadway theaters were named after Helen Hayes. The first, at 210 W. 46th Street, was named after Hayes, in 1955. After it was demolished, in 1982, another Broadway theater, at 240 W. 44th Street, was renamed, The Helen Hayes.