Sullavan preferred working on the stage and made only 16 movies, four of which were opposite James Stewart in a popular partnership that included "The Mortal Storm" and "The Shop Around the Corner". She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Three Comrades" (1938). She retired from the screen in the early 1940s, but returned in 1950 to make her last film, "No Sad Songs for Me", in which she played a woman who was dying of cancer. For the rest of her career, she appeared only on the stage.