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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Susan Hayward, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Helen Lawson
Valley of the Dolls
Irene Bennett
House of Strangers
Helen Street
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Morna Dabney
Tap Roots
Constance Chesley
The Fighting Seabees
Charmian Kittredge
Jack London
Bortai
The Conqueror
Estelle Masterson
I Married a Witch
Verna Carlson
They Won't Believe Me
June Goffe
Deadline at Dawn
Lillian Roth
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Barbara Graham
I Want to Live!
Leah Fuller
Garden of Evil
Bathsheba
David and Bathsheba
Isobel Rivers
Beau Geste
Millie Pickens
Among the Living
Rae Smith
Back Street
Lucy Overmire
Canyon Passage
Messalina
Demetrius and the Gladiators
Vinnie Holt
Rawhide
Louise Merritt
The Lusty Men
Mrs. Sheridan
The Honey Pot
Starlet at Table (uncredited)
Hollywood Hotel
Mrs. Jane Hoyt
Soldier of Fortune
Drusilla Alston
Reap the Wild Wind
Katie O'Neill
Untamed
Angie Evans
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Jane Froman
With a Song in My Heart
Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Tina Bordereau
The Lost Moment
Valerie Hayden Miller
Where Love Has Gone
Harriet Boyd
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Rachel Donaldson
The President's Lady
Christine Allison
I Thank a Fool
Cherokee Lansing
Tulsa
Hester Stoddard
Adam Had Four Sons
Kate Benson
Young and Willing
Genevieve in Priorities Skit
Star Spangled Rhythm
Eloise Winters
My Foolish Heart
Content Delville
The Marriage-Go-Round
(archive footage)
La verifica incerta
Mildred Douglas
The Hairy Ape
Janice Blair
And Now Tomorrow
Ellen Burton
White Witch Doctor
Gabrielle Dauphin
Thunder in the Sun
Janet Busch
The Saxon Charm
Ada Gillis
Ada
Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale
Top Secret Affair
Carol Hopkins
Sis Hopkins
Gloria Adams
Girls on Probation
Mary Sharron
Woman Obsessed
Dr. Maggie Cole
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
Laura Pember
Stolen Hours
'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Molly Miller
Skirmish on the Home Front
Tana 'Butch' Mason
The Forest Rangers
Self (archive footage)
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
Telephone operator
The Sisters
Mrs. Mary Lewis
A Letter From Bataan
Betty McGlen
$1,000 a Touchdown
Amateur Actress (uncredited)
Comet Over Broadway
Jill Wright
Hit Parade of 1943
Judith Schofield
Our Leading Citizen
Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Herself
Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage
Elizabeth Reilly
The Revengers
Jessie Fitzgerald
Heat of Anger
Self (archive footage)
Storm in My Heart
Self (archive)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
(Archival)
Bride of Trailer Camp
Helen Lawson (archive footage)
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
71
Gender
Female
Birthday
1917-06-30
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
Сьюзен Хэйуорд