This EGOT winner always claimed to just be the adopted mother of this former A- list actor.
She was his biological mother, and no one really knows why she insisted he be called adopted.
Helen Hayes
James MacArthur
28Oct/2010: James MacArthur dies of natural causes at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. He’s best remembered as Danny “Danno” Williams in Hawaii Five-0. His parents were playwright Charles MacArthur and actor Helen Hayes. He’s 72. pic.twitter.com/Sn6dQZvaaN
— Hermine (@PetloverHermine) October 29, 2021
🌟Helen Hayes was an Academy Award winning actress. She received an Academy Award for The Sin of Madelon Claudet. She was the mother of adopted son, James MacArthur, who had a role on the hit television series, Hawaii Five-O.🌟 #TV #TCMParty pic.twitter.com/wYnrg52e3G
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Helen Hayes with her children Mary and James MacArthur in 1939.
Photos by Herbert Gehr for The LIFE Images Collection. pic.twitter.com/CMV6SQI7DO
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Happy Birthday!
Helen Hayes
(Oct 10, 1900 – Mar 17, 1993)She married twice
John Swanson (1926–28)
and adopted son, James MacArthur (1937–2010), who went on to a career in acting, starring in Hawaii Five-O on television. pic.twitter.com/GgP93maKP3
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