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
(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 (Archival)
(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)
Ada
as Ada Gillis
(1961)
Back Street
as Rae Smith
(1961)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
(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)
Demetrius and the Gladiators
as Messalina
(1954)
Garden of Evil
as Leah Fuller
(1953)
White Witch Doctor
as Ellen Burton
(1953)
The President's Lady
as Rachel Donaldson
(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 Can Get It for You Wholesale
as Harriet Boyd
(1951)
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
as Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
(1950)
My Foolish Heart
as Eloise Winters
(1949)
Tulsa
as Cherokee Lansing
(1949)
House of Strangers
as Irene Bennett
(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)
Deadline at Dawn
as June Goffe
(1946)
Canyon Passage
as Lucy Overmire
(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)
Young and Willing
as Kate Benson
(1943)
Jack London
as Charmian Kittredge
(1943)
Hit Parade of 1943
as Jill Wright
(1942)
Reap the Wild Wind
as Drusilla Alston
(1942)
I Married a Witch
as Estelle Masterson
(1942)
The Forest Rangers
as Tana 'Butch' Mason
(1942)
Star Spangled Rhythm
as Genevieve in Priorities Skit
(1942)
A Letter From Bataan
as Mrs. Mary Lewis
(1941)
Among the Living
as Millie Pickens
(1941)
Adam Had Four Sons
as Hester Stoddard
(1941)
Sis Hopkins
as Carol Hopkins
(1939)
Beau Geste
as Isobel Rivers
(1939)
$1,000 a Touchdown
as Betty McGlen
(1939)
Our Leading Citizen
as Judith Schofield
(1938)
Hollywood Hotel
as Starlet at Table (uncredited)
(1938)
The Sisters
as Telephone operator
(1938)
Comet Over Broadway
as Amateur Actress (uncredited)
(1938)
Girls on Probation
as Gloria Adams