Susan Hayward
Acting
Born: June 30, 1917 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Died: March 14, 1975 (aged 57)
Highest Rated
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
I Married a Witch
1942
Valley of the Dolls
1967
I Want to Live!
1958
Beau Geste
1939
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952
The Lusty Men
1952
Garden of Evil
1954
Demetrius and the Gladiators
1954
House of Strangers
1949
The Oscars
1953
David and Bathsheba
1951
Canyon Passage
1946
Photos (5)
Movies (66)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Helen Street
I Married a Witch
Estelle Masterson
Beau Geste
Isobel Rivers
Valley of the Dolls
Helen Lawson
Soldier of Fortune
Mrs. Jane Hoyt
Demetrius and the Gladiators
Messalina
Canyon Passage
Lucy Overmire
Tap Roots
Morna Dabney
Woman Obsessed
Mary Sharron
The Lusty Men
Louise Merritt
The President's Lady
Rachel Donaldson
Star Spangled Rhythm
Genevieve in Priorities Skit
Reap the Wild Wind
Drusilla Alston
They Won't Believe Me
Verna Carlson
Garden of Evil
Leah Fuller
David and Bathsheba
Bathsheba
The Conqueror
Bortai
Back Street
Rae Smith
The Fighting Seabees
Constance Chesley
House of Strangers
Irene Bennett
I Want to Live!
Barbara Graham
The Honey Pot
Mrs. Sheridan
Tulsa
Cherokee Lansing
Untamed
Katie O'Neill
White Witch Doctor
Ellen Burton
Adam Had Four Sons
Hester Stoddard
Sis Hopkins
Carol Hopkins
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Lillian Roth
The Revengers
Elizabeth Reilly
Rawhide
Vinnie Holt
The Sisters
Telephone operator
The Lost Moment
Tina Bordereau
With a Song in My Heart
Jane Froman
Top Secret Affair
Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale
My Foolish Heart
Eloise Winters
Deadline at Dawn
June Goffe
Comet Over Broadway
Amateur Actress (uncredited)
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Angie Evans
I Thank a Fool
Christine Allison
Hollywood Hotel
Starlet at Table (uncredited)
Ada
Ada Gillis
Where Love Has Gone
Valerie Hayden Miller
Thunder in the Sun
Gabrielle Dauphin
Among the Living
Millie Pickens
The Forest Rangers
Tana 'Butch' Mason
Young and Willing
Kate Benson
Hit Parade of 1943
Jill Wright
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
Dr. Maggie Cole
$1,000 a Touchdown
Betty McGlen
Our Leading Citizen
Judith Schofield
Heat of Anger
Jessie Fitzgerald
And Now Tomorrow
Janice Blair
Jack London
Charmian Kittredge
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Harriet Boyd
Stolen Hours
Laura Pember
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
The Dish on Dolls
Helen Lawson (archive footage)
The Hairy Ape
Mildred Douglas
The Saxon Charm
Janet Busch
Girls on Probation
Gloria Adams
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
Helen Lawson (archive footage)
Uncertain Verification
(archive footage)
A Letter From Bataan
Mrs. Mary Lewis
The Marriage-Go-Round
Content Delville
Campus Cinderella
Co-Ed
Filme Algarve
Lucy Overmire (archive footage)
TV Shows (1)
Self / Appearances (9)
The Oscars
Self · 3 eps
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self · 2 eps
MGM Parade
Self · 4 eps
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
Self (archive)
Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Self - Actress 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
Self (archive footage)
Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage
Herself