Susan Hayward
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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
Credits
Valley of the Dolls (1967)
as Helen Lawson
Sis Hopkins (1941)
as Carol Hopkins
The Divine Ms. Susann (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
David and Bathsheba (1951)
as Bathsheba
Tap Roots (1948)
as Morna Dabney
House of Strangers (1949)
as Irene Bennett
I Married a Witch (1942)
as Estelle Masterson
Back Street (1961)
as Rae Smith
The Dish on Dolls (2006)
as Helen Lawson (archive footage)
Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)
as Messalina
Woman Obsessed (1959)
as Mary Sharron
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
as Helen Street
My Foolish Heart (1950)
as Eloise Winters
The Honey Pot (1967)
as Mrs. Sheridan
Garden of Evil (1954)
as Leah Fuller
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
as Drusilla Alston
The Lusty Men (1952)
as Louise Merritt
Rawhide (1951)
as Vinnie Holt
I Want to Live! (1958)
as Barbara Graham
Top Secret Affair (1957)
as Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale
Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
They Won't Believe Me (1947)
as Verna Carlson
The Fighting Seabees (1944)
as Constance Chesley
The Conqueror (1956)
as Bortai
Canyon Passage (1946)
as Lucy Overmire
The Forest Rangers (1942)
as Tana 'Butch' Mason
The Revengers (1972)
as Elizabeth Reilly
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
as Lillian Roth
Young and Willing (1943)
as Kate Benson
Where Love Has Gone (1964)
as Valerie Hayden Miller
Beau Geste (1939)
as Isobel Rivers
Untamed (1955)
as Katie O'Neill
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947)
as Angie Evans
Soldier of Fortune (1955)
as Mrs. Jane Hoyt
Thunder in the Sun (1959)
as Gabrielle Dauphin
The Saxon Charm (1948)
as Janet Busch
White Witch Doctor (1953)
as Ellen Burton
Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1961)
as Self - Actress 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout (2024)
as Self (archive footage)
Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
as Hester Stoddard
I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951)
as Harriet Boyd
The Sisters (1938)
as Telephone operator
The President's Lady (1953)
as Rachel Donaldson
Hollywood Hotel (1938)
as Starlet at Table (uncredited)
$1,000 a Touchdown (1939)
as Betty McGlen
I Thank a Fool (1962)
as Christine Allison
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951)
as Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
With a Song in My Heart (1952)
as Jane Froman
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)
as Self (archive footage)
Tulsa (1949)
as Cherokee Lansing
Our Leading Citizen (1939)
as Judith Schofield
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical (2009)
as Self (archive)
Hit Parade of 1943 (1943)
as Jill Wright
And Now Tomorrow (1944)
as Janice Blair
Among the Living (1941)
as Millie Pickens
The Marriage-Go-Round (1961)
as Content Delville
Deadline at Dawn (1946)
as June Goffe
Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
as Genevieve in Priorities Skit
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole (1972)
as Dr. Maggie Cole
The Hairy Ape (1944)
as Mildred Douglas
Ada (1961)
as Ada Gillis
Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage (1967)
as Herself
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls' (2006)
as Helen Lawson (archive footage)
Stolen Hours (1963)
as Laura Pember
Skirmish on the Home Front (1944)
as Molly Miller
Uncertain Verification (1965)
as (archive footage)
The Lost Moment (1947)
as Tina Bordereau
Jack London (1943)
as Charmian Kittredge
A Letter From Bataan (1942)
as Mrs. Mary Lewis
Storm in My Heart (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
Bride of Trailer Camp (2001)
as (archive footage)
Girls on Probation (1938)
as Gloria Adams
Heat of Anger (1972)
as Jessie Fitzgerald
Comet Over Broadway (1938)
as Amateur Actress (uncredited)
Campus Cinderella (1938)
as Co-Ed
Filme Algarve (2025)
as Lucy Overmire (archive footage)