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 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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Movies (76)
Filme Algarve
2025 · Lucy Overmire (archive footage)
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Storm in My Heart
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
2009 · Self (archive)
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
2006 · Helen Lawson (archive footage)
The Divine Ms. Susann
2006 · Self (archive footage)
The Dish on Dolls
2006 · Helen Lawson (archive footage)
Bride of Trailer Camp
2001 · (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988 · Self (archive footage)
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
1972 · Dr. Maggie Cole
The Revengers
1972 · Elizabeth Reilly
Heat of Anger
1972 · Jessie Fitzgerald
Valley of the Dolls
1967 · Helen Lawson
Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage
1967 · Herself
The Honey Pot
1967 · Mrs. Sheridan
Uncertain Verification
1965 · (archive footage)
Where Love Has Gone
1964 · Valerie Hayden Miller
Stolen Hours
1963 · Laura Pember
I Thank a Fool
1962 · Christine Allison
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961 · Self - Actress 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
Back Street
1961 · Rae Smith
Ada
1961 · Ada Gillis
The Marriage-Go-Round
1961 · Content Delville
Woman Obsessed
1959 · Mary Sharron
Thunder in the Sun
1959 · Gabrielle Dauphin
I Want to Live!
1958 · Barbara Graham
Top Secret Affair
1957 · Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale
The Conqueror
1956 · Bortai
I'll Cry Tomorrow
1955 · Lillian Roth
Soldier of Fortune
1955 · Mrs. Jane Hoyt
Untamed
1955 · Katie O'Neill
Garden of Evil
1954 · Leah Fuller
Demetrius and the Gladiators
1954 · Messalina
White Witch Doctor
1953 · Ellen Burton
The President's Lady
1953 · Rachel Donaldson
The Lusty Men
1952 · Louise Merritt
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952 · Helen Street
With a Song in My Heart
1952 · Jane Froman
David and Bathsheba
1951 · Bathsheba
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
1951 · Harriet Boyd
Rawhide
1951 · Vinnie Holt
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
1951 · Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
My Foolish Heart
1950 · Eloise Winters
House of Strangers
1949 · Irene Bennett
Tulsa
1949 · Cherokee Lansing
The Saxon Charm
1948 · Janet Busch
Tap Roots
1948 · Morna Dabney
The Lost Moment
1947 · Tina Bordereau
They Won't Believe Me
1947 · Verna Carlson
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
1947 · Angie Evans
Canyon Passage
1946 · Lucy Overmire
Deadline at Dawn
1946 · June Goffe
And Now Tomorrow
1944 · Janice Blair
The Hairy Ape
1944 · Mildred Douglas
Skirmish on the Home Front
1944 · Molly Miller
The Fighting Seabees
1944 · Constance Chesley
Jack London
1943 · Charmian Kittredge
Hit Parade of 1943
1943 · Jill Wright
Young and Willing
1943 · Kate Benson
I Married a Witch
1942 · Estelle Masterson
The Forest Rangers
1942 · Tana 'Butch' Mason
A Letter From Bataan
1942 · Mrs. Mary Lewis
Reap the Wild Wind
1942 · Drusilla Alston
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942 · Genevieve in Priorities Skit
Among the Living
1941 · Millie Pickens
Sis Hopkins
1941 · Carol Hopkins
Adam Had Four Sons
1941 · Hester Stoddard
$1,000 a Touchdown
1939 · Betty McGlen
Our Leading Citizen
1939 · Judith Schofield
Beau Geste
1939 · Isobel Rivers
Comet Over Broadway
1938 · Amateur Actress (uncredited)
Girls on Probation
1938 · Gloria Adams
The Sisters
1938 · Telephone operator
Campus Cinderella
1938 · Co-Ed
Hollywood Hotel
1938 · Starlet at Table (uncredited)
