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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
June 30, 1917
Place of Birth:
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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Susan Hayward
Biography
Susan Hayward (June 30, 1917 – March 14, 1975) was an American actress.
After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward travelled to Hollywood in 1937 when open auditions were held for the leading role in Gone With the Wind (1939). Although she was not selected, she secured a film contract, and played several small supporting roles over the next few years. By the late 1940s the quality of her film roles had improved, and she achieved recognition for her dramatic abilities with the first of five Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her performance as an alcoholic in Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947). Her career continued successfully through the 1950s and she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of death row inmate Barbara Graham in I Want to Live! (1958).
By this time, Hayward was married and living in Georgia and her film appearances became infrequent, although she continued acting in film and television until 1972. She died in 1975 following a long battle with brain cancer.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Storm in My Heart | Self (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical | Self (archive) |
| 2006 | Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls' | Helen Lawson (archive footage) |
| 2001 | Bride of Trailer Camp | (Archival) |
| 1988 | The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Self (archive footage) |
| 1972 | Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole | Dr. Maggie Cole |
| 1972 | The Revengers | Elizabeth Reilly |
| 1972 | Heat of Anger | Jessie Fitzgerald |
| 1967 | Valley of the Dolls | Helen Lawson |
| 1967 | The Honey Pot | Mrs. Sheridan |
| 1967 | Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage | Herself |
| 1965 | Uncertain Verification | (archive footage) |
| 1964 | Where Love Has Gone | Valerie Hayden Miller |
| 1963 | Stolen Hours | Laura Pember |
| 1962 | I Thank a Fool | Christine Allison |
| 1961 | Back Street | Rae Smith |
| 1961 | The Marriage-Go-Round | Content Delville |
| 1961 | Ada | Ada Gillis |
| 1961 | Hollywood: The Selznick Years | 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1959 | Thunder in the Sun | Gabrielle Dauphin |
| 1959 | Woman Obsessed | Mary Sharron |
| 1958 | I Want to Live! | Barbara Graham |
| 1957 | Top Secret Affair | Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale |
| 1956 | The Conqueror | Bortai |
| 1955 | I'll Cry Tomorrow | Lillian Roth |
| 1955 | Soldier of Fortune | Mrs. Jane Hoyt |
| 1955 | Untamed | Katie O'Neill |
| 1954 | Garden of Evil | Leah Fuller |
| 1954 | Demetrius and the Gladiators | Messalina |
| 1953 | The President's Lady | Rachel Donaldson |
| 1953 | White Witch Doctor | Ellen Burton |
| 1952 | The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Helen Street |
| 1952 | The Lusty Men | Louise Merritt |
| 1952 | With a Song in My Heart | Jane Froman |
| 1951 | David and Bathsheba | Bathsheba |
| 1951 | Rawhide | Vinnie Holt |
| 1951 | I'd Climb the Highest Mountain | Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson |
| 1951 | I Can Get It for You Wholesale | Harriet Boyd |
| 1950 | My Foolish Heart | Eloise Winters |
| 1949 | House of Strangers | Irene Bennett |
| 1949 | Tulsa | Cherokee Lansing |
| 1948 | Tap Roots | Morna Dabney |
| 1948 | The Saxon Charm | Janet Busch |
| 1947 | They Won't Believe Me | Verna Carlson |
| 1947 | Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman | Angie Evans |
| 1947 | The Lost Moment | Tina Bordereau |
| 1946 | Deadline at Dawn | June Goffe |
| 1946 | Canyon Passage | Lucy Overmire |
| 1944 | The Fighting Seabees | Constance Chesley |
| 1944 | The Hairy Ape | Mildred Douglas |
| 1944 | And Now Tomorrow | Janice Blair |
| 1944 | Skirmish on the Home Front | Molly Miller |
| 1943 | Jack London | Charmian Kittredge |
| 1943 | Young and Willing | Kate Benson |
| 1943 | Hit Parade of 1943 | Jill Wright |
| 1942 | I Married a Witch | Estelle Masterson |
| 1942 | Reap the Wild Wind | Drusilla Alston |
| 1942 | Star Spangled Rhythm | Genevieve in Priorities Skit |
| 1942 | The Forest Rangers | Tana 'Butch' Mason |
| 1942 | A Letter From Bataan | Mrs. Mary Lewis |
| 1941 | Among the Living | Millie Pickens |
| 1941 | Adam Had Four Sons | Hester Stoddard |
| 1941 | Sis Hopkins | Carol Hopkins |
| 1939 | Beau Geste | Isobel Rivers |
| 1939 | $1,000 a Touchdown | Betty McGlen |
| 1939 | Our Leading Citizen | Judith Schofield |
| 1938 | Hollywood Hotel | Starlet at Table (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Girls on Probation | Gloria Adams |
| 1938 | The Sisters | Telephone operator |
| 1938 | Comet Over Broadway | Amateur Actress (uncredited) |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Self |