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