Susan Hayward
Acting
- Born:
- 1917-06-30
- Died:
- 1975-03-14
- Place of birth:
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
Filme Algarve
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests
Storm in My Heart
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
The Divine Ms. Susann
The Dish on Dolls
Bride of Trailer Camp
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
The Revengers
Heat of Anger
Valley of the Dolls
Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage
The Honey Pot
Uncertain Verification
Where Love Has Gone
Stolen Hours
I Thank a Fool
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Back Street
Ada
The Marriage-Go-Round
Woman Obsessed
Thunder in the Sun
I Want to Live!
Top Secret Affair
The Conqueror
I'll Cry Tomorrow
MGM Parade
Soldier of Fortune
Untamed
Garden of Evil
Demetrius and the Gladiators
White Witch Doctor
The President's Lady
The Oscars
The Lusty Men
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
With a Song in My Heart
David and Bathsheba
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Rawhide
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
My Foolish Heart
House of Strangers
Tulsa
The Saxon Charm
Tap Roots
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Lost Moment
They Won't Believe Me
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Canyon Passage
Deadline at Dawn
And Now Tomorrow
The Hairy Ape
Skirmish on the Home Front
The Fighting Seabees
Jack London
Hit Parade of 1943
Young and Willing
I Married a Witch
The Forest Rangers
A Letter From Bataan
Reap the Wild Wind
Star Spangled Rhythm
Among the Living
Sis Hopkins
Adam Had Four Sons
$1,000 a Touchdown
Our Leading Citizen
Beau Geste
Comet Over Broadway
Girls on Probation
The Sisters
Campus Cinderella
Hollywood Hotel