Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 30, 1917
Died
Mar 14, 1975
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Credits
78 titles
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
Filmography
Filme Algarve
Lucy Overmire (archive footage)
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
Self (archive footage)
Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests
Self (archive footage)
Storm in My Heart
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
Self (archive)
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
Helen Lawson (archive footage)
The Divine Ms. Susann
Self (archive footage)
The Dish on Dolls
Helen Lawson (archive footage)
Bride of Trailer Camp
(archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
Dr. Maggie Cole
The Revengers
Elizabeth Reilly
Heat of Anger
Jessie Fitzgerald
Valley of the Dolls
Helen Lawson
Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage
Herself
The Honey Pot
Mrs. Sheridan
Uncertain Verification
(archive footage)
Where Love Has Gone
Valerie Hayden Miller
Stolen Hours
Laura Pember
I Thank a Fool
Christine Allison
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Self - Actress 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
Back Street
Rae Smith
Ada
Ada Gillis
The Marriage-Go-Round
Content Delville
Woman Obsessed
Mary Sharron
Thunder in the Sun
Gabrielle Dauphin
I Want to Live!
Barbara Graham
Top Secret Affair
Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale
The Conqueror
Bortai
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Lillian Roth
MGM Parade
Soldier of Fortune
Mrs. Jane Hoyt
Untamed
Katie O'Neill
Garden of Evil
Leah Fuller
Demetrius and the Gladiators
Messalina
White Witch Doctor
Ellen Burton
The President's Lady
Rachel Donaldson
The Oscars
Self
The Lusty Men
Louise Merritt
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Helen Street
With a Song in My Heart
Jane Froman
David and Bathsheba
Bathsheba
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Harriet Boyd
Rawhide
Vinnie Holt
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
My Foolish Heart
Eloise Winters
House of Strangers
Irene Bennett
Tulsa
Cherokee Lansing
The Saxon Charm
Janet Busch
Tap Roots
Morna Dabney