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