Susan Hayward
Born: 1917-06-30 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1975-03-14
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- Filme Algarve as Lucy Overmire (archive footage)
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 (archive footage)
1988
- The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind as Self (archive footage)
1972
- The Revengers as Elizabeth Reilly
- Heat of Anger as Jessie Fitzgerald
- Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole as Dr. Maggie Cole
1967
- Valley of the Dolls as Helen Lawson
- Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage as Herself
- The Honey Pot as Mrs. Sheridan
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
- Back Street as Rae Smith
- Ada as Ada Gillis
- The Marriage-Go-Round as Content Delville
1959
- Woman Obsessed as Mary Sharron
- 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
- I'll Cry Tomorrow as Lillian Roth
- Soldier of Fortune as Mrs. Jane Hoyt
1954
- Garden of Evil as Leah Fuller
- Demetrius and the Gladiators as Messalina
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- The President's Lady as Rachel Donaldson
- White Witch Doctor as Ellen Burton
1952
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro as Helen Street
- The Lusty Men as Louise Merritt
- With a Song in My Heart as Jane Froman
1951
- Rawhide as Vinnie Holt
- David and Bathsheba as Bathsheba
- I'd Climb the Highest Mountain as Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
- I Can Get It for You Wholesale as Harriet Boyd
1950
- My Foolish Heart as Eloise Winters
1949
- Tulsa as Cherokee Lansing
- House of Strangers as Irene Bennett
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Tap Roots as Morna Dabney
- The Saxon Charm as Janet Busch
1947
- Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman as Angie Evans
- They Won't Believe Me as Verna Carlson
- The Lost Moment as Tina Bordereau
1946
- Canyon Passage as Lucy Overmire
- Deadline at Dawn as June Goffe
1944
- And Now Tomorrow as Janice Blair
- The Hairy Ape as Mildred Douglas
- The Fighting Seabees as Constance Chesley
- Skirmish on the Home Front as Molly Miller
1943
- Jack London as Charmian Kittredge
- Hit Parade of 1943 as Jill Wright
- Young and Willing as Kate Benson
1942
- Reap the Wild Wind as Drusilla Alston
- I Married a Witch as Estelle Masterson
- The Forest Rangers as Tana 'Butch' Mason
- Star Spangled Rhythm as Genevieve in Priorities Skit
- A Letter From Bataan as Mrs. Mary Lewis
1941
- Among the Living as Millie Pickens
- Adam Had Four Sons as Hester Stoddard
- Sis Hopkins as Carol Hopkins
1939
- Beau Geste as Isobel Rivers
- Our Leading Citizen as Judith Schofield
- $1,000 a Touchdown as Betty McGlen
1938
- Hollywood Hotel as Starlet at Table (uncredited)
- The Sisters as Telephone operator
- Girls on Probation as Gloria Adams
- Comet Over Broadway as Amateur Actress (uncredited)