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Susan Hayward

Susan Hayward

Actor · 1917–1975 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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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.

Acted in 66

2020s

  1. 2025

    Filme Algarve

    Lucy Overmire (archive footage)

2000s

  1. 2006

    Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'

    Helen Lawson (archive footage)

  2. The Dish on Dolls

    Helen Lawson (archive footage)

1970s

  1. 1972

    Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole

    Dr. Maggie Cole

  2. The Revengers

    Elizabeth Reilly

    60

  3. Heat of Anger

    Jessie Fitzgerald

1960s

  1. 1967

    Valley of the Dolls

    Helen Lawson

    52

  2. The Honey Pot

    Mrs. Sheridan

    64
  3. 1965

    Uncertain Verification

    (archive footage)

  4. 1964

    Where Love Has Gone

    Valerie Hayden Miller

    61
  5. 1963

    Stolen Hours

    Laura Pember

    62
  6. 1962

    I Thank a Fool

    Christine Allison

  7. 1961

    Back Street

    Rae Smith

  8. Ada

    Ada Gillis

  9. The Marriage-Go-Round

    Content Delville

1950s

  1. 1959

    Woman Obsessed

    Mary Sharron

  2. Thunder in the Sun

    Gabrielle Dauphin

  3. 1958

    I Want to Live!

    Barbara Graham

    79
  4. 1957

    Top Secret Affair

    Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale

  5. 1956

    The Conqueror

    Bortai

  6. 1955

    I'll Cry Tomorrow

    Lillian Roth

  7. Soldier of Fortune

    Mrs. Jane Hoyt

  8. Untamed

    Katie O'Neill

  9. 1954

    Garden of Evil

    Leah Fuller

  10. Demetrius and the Gladiators

    Messalina

  11. 1953

    White Witch Doctor

    Ellen Burton

    62

  12. The President's Lady

    Rachel Donaldson

  13. 1952

    The Lusty Men

    Louise Merritt

  14. The Snows of Kilimanjaro

    Helen Street

    64

  15. With a Song in My Heart

    Jane Froman

    63
  16. 1951

    David and Bathsheba

    Bathsheba

  17. I Can Get It for You Wholesale

    Harriet Boyd

  18. Rawhide

    Vinnie Holt

    70

  19. I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

    Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson

  20. 1950

    My Foolish Heart

    Eloise Winters

    67

1940s

  1. 1949

    House of Strangers

    Irene Bennett

    72

  2. Tulsa

    Cherokee Lansing

    62
  3. 1948

    The Saxon Charm

    Janet Busch

  4. Tap Roots

    Morna Dabney

    66
  5. 1947

    The Lost Moment

    Tina Bordereau

  6. They Won't Believe Me

    Verna Carlson

    70

  7. Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

    Angie Evans

    63
  8. 1946

    Canyon Passage

    Lucy Overmire

    77

  9. Deadline at Dawn

    June Goffe

  10. 1944

    And Now Tomorrow

    Janice Blair

  11. The Hairy Ape

    Mildred Douglas

  12. The Fighting Seabees

    Constance Chesley

  13. 1943

    Jack London

    Charmian Kittredge

  14. Hit Parade of 1943

    Jill Wright

  15. Young and Willing

    Kate Benson

  16. 1942

    I Married a Witch

    Estelle Masterson

    77

  17. The Forest Rangers

    Tana 'Butch' Mason

  18. A Letter From Bataan

    Mrs. Mary Lewis

  19. Reap the Wild Wind

    Drusilla Alston

    69

  20. Star Spangled Rhythm

    Genevieve in Priorities Skit

  21. 1941

    Among the Living

    Millie Pickens

  22. Sis Hopkins

    Carol Hopkins

  23. Adam Had Four Sons

    Hester Stoddard

1930s

  1. 1939

    $1,000 a Touchdown

    Betty McGlen

  2. Our Leading Citizen

    Judith Schofield

  3. Beau Geste

    Isobel Rivers

    76
  4. 1938

    Comet Over Broadway

    Amateur Actress (uncredited)

  5. Girls on Probation

    Gloria Adams

  6. The Sisters

    Telephone operator

  7. Campus Cinderella

    Co-Ed

  8. Hollywood Hotel

    Starlet at Table (uncredited)

Appearances9

2020s

  1. 2024

    The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout

    Self (archive footage)

  2. 2020

    Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests

    Self (archive footage)

2000s

  1. 2009

    Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical

    Self (archive)

1980s

  1. 1988

    The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

    Self (archive footage)

1960s

  1. 1967

    Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage

    Herself

  2. 1961

    Hollywood: The Selznick Years

    Self - Actress 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)