INSPIRED BY: Stop #1: 16th & Mt Pleasant Streets NW
Fashionable 16th Street
Helen Hayes was born in Washington D.C. on October 10, 1900. She attended the Academy of the Sacred Heart Convent in Washington DC. and graduated in 1917.
In Dana Ellyn's "Mount Pleasant Gibson Girls" is inspired by a photo of Claudette Colbert playing hostess to Helen Hayes and Ruth Gordon at the Paramount commissary.