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)
2020
- Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests as Self (archive footage)
2018
- Storm in My Heart as Self (archive footage)
2009
2006
- The Dish on Dolls as Helen Lawson (archive footage)
- Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls' as Helen Lawson (archive footage)
- The Divine Ms. Susann as Self (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
- Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole as Dr. Maggie Cole
- The Revengers as Elizabeth Reilly
- Heat of Anger as Jessie Fitzgerald
1967
- Valley of the Dolls as Helen Lawson
- The Honey Pot as Mrs. Sheridan
- Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage as Herself
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
- Hollywood: The Selznick Years as Self - Actress 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Marriage-Go-Round as Content Delville
- Ada as Ada Gillis
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
- MGM Parade
- I'll Cry Tomorrow as Lillian Roth
- Soldier of Fortune as Mrs. Jane Hoyt
- Untamed as Katie O'Neill
1954
- Demetrius and the Gladiators as Messalina
- Garden of Evil as Leah Fuller
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
- David and Bathsheba as Bathsheba
- Rawhide as Vinnie Holt
- 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
- House of Strangers as Irene Bennett
- Tulsa as Cherokee Lansing
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Tap Roots as Morna Dabney
- The Saxon Charm as Janet Busch
1947
- They Won't Believe Me as Verna Carlson
- The Lost Moment as Tina Bordereau
- Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman as Angie Evans
1946
- Canyon Passage as Lucy Overmire
- Deadline at Dawn as June Goffe
1944
- The Fighting Seabees as Constance Chesley
- And Now Tomorrow as Janice Blair
- Skirmish on the Home Front as Molly Miller
- The Hairy Ape as Mildred Douglas
1943
- Young and Willing as Kate Benson
- Hit Parade of 1943 as Jill Wright
- Jack London as Charmian Kittredge
1942
- I Married a Witch as Estelle Masterson
- Reap the Wild Wind as Drusilla Alston
- A Letter From Bataan as Mrs. Mary Lewis
- The Forest Rangers as Tana 'Butch' Mason
- Star Spangled Rhythm as Genevieve in Priorities Skit
1941
- Sis Hopkins as Carol Hopkins
- Adam Had Four Sons as Hester Stoddard
- Among the Living as Millie Pickens
1939
- Our Leading Citizen as Judith Schofield
- Beau Geste as Isobel Rivers
- $1,000 a Touchdown as Betty McGlen
1938
- The Sisters as Telephone operator
- Hollywood Hotel as Starlet at Table (uncredited)
- Comet Over Broadway as Amateur Actress (uncredited)
- Girls on Probation as Gloria Adams
- Campus Cinderella as Co-Ed