Susan Hayward
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 30, 1917
- Died
- March 14, 1975 (aged 57)
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
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Filmography
Filme Algarve
Movie · as Lucy Overmire (archive footage)
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Storm in My Heart
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
Movie · as Self (archive)
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
Movie · as Helen Lawson (archive footage)
The Divine Ms. Susann
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Dish on Dolls
Movie · as Helen Lawson (archive footage)
Bride of Trailer Camp
Movie · as (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
Movie · as Dr. Maggie Cole
The Revengers
Movie · as Elizabeth Reilly
Heat of Anger
Movie · as Jessie Fitzgerald
Valley of the Dolls
Movie · as Helen Lawson
The Honey Pot
Movie · as Mrs. Sheridan
Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage
Movie · as Herself
Uncertain Verification
Movie · as (archive footage)
Where Love Has Gone
Movie · as Valerie Hayden Miller
Stolen Hours
Movie · as Laura Pember
I Thank a Fool
Movie · as Christine Allison
Back Street
Movie · as Rae Smith
The Marriage-Go-Round
Movie · as Content Delville
Ada
Movie · as Ada Gillis
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Movie · as Self - Actress 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
Thunder in the Sun
Movie · as Gabrielle Dauphin
Woman Obsessed
Movie · as Mary Sharron
I Want to Live!
Movie · as Barbara Graham
Top Secret Affair
Movie · as Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale
The Conqueror
Movie · as Bortai
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Movie · as Lillian Roth
Soldier of Fortune
Movie · as Mrs. Jane Hoyt
Untamed
Movie · as Katie O'Neill
MGM Parade
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Garden of Evil
Movie · as Leah Fuller
Demetrius and the Gladiators
Movie · as Messalina
The President's Lady
Movie · as Rachel Donaldson
White Witch Doctor
Movie · as Ellen Burton
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 3 eps
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Movie · as Helen Street
The Lusty Men
Movie · as Louise Merritt
With a Song in My Heart
Movie · as Jane Froman
David and Bathsheba
Movie · as Bathsheba
Rawhide
Movie · as Vinnie Holt
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Movie · as Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Movie · as Harriet Boyd
My Foolish Heart
Movie · as Eloise Winters
House of Strangers
Movie · as Irene Bennett
Tulsa
Movie · as Cherokee Lansing
Tap Roots
Movie · as Morna Dabney
The Saxon Charm
Movie · as Janet Busch
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
They Won't Believe Me
Movie · as Verna Carlson
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Movie · as Angie Evans
The Lost Moment
Movie · as Tina Bordereau
Deadline at Dawn
Movie · as June Goffe
Canyon Passage
Movie · as Lucy Overmire
The Fighting Seabees
Movie · as Constance Chesley
The Hairy Ape
Movie · as Mildred Douglas
And Now Tomorrow
Movie · as Janice Blair
Skirmish on the Home Front
Movie · as Molly Miller
Jack London
Movie · as Charmian Kittredge
Young and Willing
Movie · as Kate Benson
Hit Parade of 1943
Movie · as Jill Wright
I Married a Witch
Movie · as Estelle Masterson
Reap the Wild Wind
Movie · as Drusilla Alston
Star Spangled Rhythm
Movie · as Genevieve in Priorities Skit
The Forest Rangers
Movie · as Tana 'Butch' Mason
A Letter From Bataan
Movie · as Mrs. Mary Lewis
Among the Living
Movie · as Millie Pickens
Adam Had Four Sons
Movie · as Hester Stoddard
Sis Hopkins
Movie · as Carol Hopkins
Beau Geste
Movie · as Isobel Rivers
$1,000 a Touchdown
Movie · as Betty McGlen
Our Leading Citizen
Movie · as Judith Schofield
Hollywood Hotel
Movie · as Starlet at Table (uncredited)
Girls on Probation
Movie · as Gloria Adams
The Sisters
Movie · as Telephone operator
Comet Over Broadway
Movie · as Amateur Actress (uncredited)
Campus Cinderella
Movie · as Co-Ed