Susan Hayward
Known for Acting · 77 credits
- Born
- 1917-06-30
- Died
- 1975-03-14
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Сьюзен Хэйуорд · Edythe Marrenner
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.
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Known For
TV Shows (3)
Movies (74)
House of Strangers
1949
as Irene Bennett
Tap Roots
1948
as Morna Dabney
Woman Obsessed
1959
as Mary Sharron
Back Street
1961
as Rae Smith
Reap the Wild Wind
1942
as Drusilla Alston
Valley of the Dolls
1967
as Helen Lawson
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952
as Helen Street
The Forest Rangers
1942
as Tana 'Butch' Mason
The Honey Pot
1967
as Mrs. Sheridan
The Fighting Seabees
1944
as Constance Chesley
Sis Hopkins
1941
as Carol Hopkins
Canyon Passage
1946
as Lucy Overmire
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942
as Genevieve in Priorities Skit
David and Bathsheba
1951
as Bathsheba
I Married a Witch
1942
as Estelle Masterson
I Want to Live!
1958
as Barbara Graham
Demetrius and the Gladiators
1954
as Messalina
Top Secret Affair
1957
as Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale
The Conqueror
1956
as Bortai
Garden of Evil
1954
as Leah Fuller
Where Love Has Gone
1964
as Valerie Hayden Miller
Soldier of Fortune
1955
as Mrs. Jane Hoyt
The Lusty Men
1952
as Louise Merritt
My Foolish Heart
1950
as Eloise Winters
Rawhide
1951
as Vinnie Holt
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
1972
as Dr. Maggie Cole
Thunder in the Sun
1959
as Gabrielle Dauphin
I'll Cry Tomorrow
1955
as Lillian Roth
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
as Self (archive footage)
The Revengers
1972
as Elizabeth Reilly
Young and Willing
1943
as Kate Benson
And Now Tomorrow
1944
as Janice Blair
The Lost Moment
1947
as Tina Bordereau
The President's Lady
1953
as Rachel Donaldson
Tulsa
1949
as Cherokee Lansing
They Won't Believe Me
1947
as Verna Carlson
Ada
1961
as Ada Gillis
White Witch Doctor
1953
as Ellen Burton
Beau Geste
1939
as Isobel Rivers
The Dish on Dolls
2006
as Helen Lawson (archive footage)
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)
Skirmish on the Home Front
1944
as Molly Miller
Uncertain Verification
1965
as (archive footage)
I Thank a Fool
1962
as Christine Allison
Comet Over Broadway
1938
as Amateur Actress (uncredited)
With a Song in My Heart
1952
as Jane Froman
Adam Had Four Sons
1941
as Hester Stoddard
Untamed
1955
as Katie O'Neill
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
as Self - Actress 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
1951
as Harriet Boyd
The Marriage-Go-Round
1961
as Content Delville
Bride of Trailer Camp
2001
as (archive footage)
Deadline at Dawn
1946
as June Goffe
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
1951
as Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
Hit Parade of 1943
1943
as Jill Wright
The Sisters
1938
as Telephone operator
Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage
1967
as Herself
Heat of Anger
1972
as Jessie Fitzgerald
Girls on Probation
1938
as Gloria Adams
The Hairy Ape
1944
as Mildred Douglas
Stolen Hours
1963
as Laura Pember
The Saxon Charm
1948
as Janet Busch
Hollywood Hotel
1938
as Starlet at Table (uncredited)
Jack London
1943
as Charmian Kittredge
The Divine Ms. Susann
2006
as Self (archive footage)
A Letter From Bataan
1942
as Mrs. Mary Lewis
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
1947
as Angie Evans
Among the Living
1941
as Millie Pickens
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
2006
as Helen Lawson (archive footage)
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
2024
as Self (archive footage)
$1,000 a Touchdown
1939
as Betty McGlen
Filme Algarve
2025
as Lucy Overmire (archive footage)
Storm in My Heart
2018
as Self (archive footage)
About Susan Hayward
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… With 77 credits spanning from 1938 to 2025, Susan Hayward has appeared in 74 films and 3 TV shows.
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- House of Strangers (1949) — as Irene Bennett
- Tap Roots (1948) — as Morna Dabney
- Woman Obsessed (1959) — as Mary Sharron
- Back Street (1961) — as Rae Smith
- Reap the Wild Wind (1942) — as Drusilla Alston
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