Susan Hayward
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1917-06-30
Day of Death
1975-03-14 (57 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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
Acting
(2025)
Filme Algarve
as Lucy Overmire (archive footage)
(2024)
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
as Self (archive footage)
(2018)
Storm in My Heart
as Self (archive footage)
(2009)
(2006)
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
as Helen Lawson (archive footage)
(2001)
Bride of Trailer Camp
as (archive footage)
(1988)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
(1972)
The Revengers
as Elizabeth Reilly
(1972)
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
as Dr. Maggie Cole
(1972)
Heat of Anger
as Jessie Fitzgerald
(1967)
Valley of the Dolls
as Helen Lawson
(1967)
The Honey Pot
as Mrs. Sheridan
(1967)
(1965)
Uncertain Verification
as (archive footage)
(1964)
Where Love Has Gone
as Valerie Hayden Miller
(1963)
Stolen Hours
as Laura Pember
(1962)
I Thank a Fool
as Christine Allison
(1961)
Back Street
as Rae Smith
(1961)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1961)
Ada
as Ada Gillis
(1961)
The Marriage-Go-Round
as Content Delville
(1959)
Woman Obsessed
as Mary Sharron
(1959)
Thunder in the Sun
as Gabrielle Dauphin
(1958)
I Want to Live!
as Barbara Graham
(1957)
Top Secret Affair
as Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale
(1956)
The Conqueror
as Bortai
(1955)
Untamed
as Katie O'Neill
(1955)
Soldier of Fortune
as Mrs. Jane Hoyt
(1955)
I'll Cry Tomorrow
as Lillian Roth
(1954)
Garden of Evil
as Leah Fuller
(1954)
Demetrius and the Gladiators
as Messalina
(1953)
The President's Lady
as Rachel Donaldson
(1953)
White Witch Doctor
as Ellen Burton
(1952)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
as Helen Street
(1952)
The Lusty Men
as Louise Merritt
(1952)
With a Song in My Heart
as Jane Froman
(1951)
David and Bathsheba
as Bathsheba
(1951)
Rawhide
as Vinnie Holt
(1951)
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
as Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
(1951)
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
as Harriet Boyd
(1950)
My Foolish Heart
as Eloise Winters
(1949)
House of Strangers
as Irene Bennett
(1949)
Tulsa
as Cherokee Lansing
(1948)
Tap Roots
as Morna Dabney
(1948)
The Saxon Charm
as Janet Busch
(1947)
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
as Angie Evans
(1947)
They Won't Believe Me
as Verna Carlson
(1947)
The Lost Moment
as Tina Bordereau
(1946)
Canyon Passage
as Lucy Overmire
(1946)
Deadline at Dawn
as June Goffe
(1944)
The Fighting Seabees
as Constance Chesley
(1944)
And Now Tomorrow
as Janice Blair
(1944)
The Hairy Ape
as Mildred Douglas
(1944)
Skirmish on the Home Front
as Molly Miller
(1943)
Hit Parade of 1943
as Jill Wright
(1943)
Jack London
as Charmian Kittredge
(1943)
Young and Willing
as Kate Benson
(1942)
Reap the Wild Wind
as Drusilla Alston
(1942)
I Married a Witch
as Estelle Masterson
(1942)
Star Spangled Rhythm
as Genevieve in Priorities Skit
(1942)
The Forest Rangers
as Tana 'Butch' Mason
(1942)
A Letter From Bataan
as Mrs. Mary Lewis
(1941)
Adam Had Four Sons
as Hester Stoddard
(1941)
Among the Living
as Millie Pickens
(1941)
Sis Hopkins
as Carol Hopkins
(1939)
Beau Geste
as Isobel Rivers
(1939)
Our Leading Citizen
as Judith Schofield
(1939)
$1,000 a Touchdown
as Betty McGlen
(1938)
The Sisters
as Telephone operator
(1938)
Hollywood Hotel
as Starlet at Table (uncredited)
(1938)
Girls on Probation
as Gloria Adams
(1938)
Comet Over Broadway
as Amateur Actress (uncredited)