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Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 30, 1917
Died
March 14, 1975
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Сьюзен Хэйуорд
- Edythe Marrenner
Susan Hayward
1.4 Popularity
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
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Lucy Overmire (archive footage)
Filme Algarve
2025
5.3
Self (archive footage)
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
2024
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Self (archive footage)
Storm in My Heart
2018
0.0
Self (archive)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
2009
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Helen Lawson (archive footage)
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
2006
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0.0
(archive footage)
Bride of Trailer Camp
2001
8.0
Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
6.8
Dr. Maggie Cole
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
1972
5.7
Elizabeth Reilly
The Revengers
1972
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Jessie Fitzgerald
Heat of Anger
1972
Credits
Filme Algarve
as Lucy Overmire (archive footage)
2025
0.0
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
as Self (archive footage)
2024
5.3
🎬
Storm in My Heart
as Self (archive footage)
2018
0.0
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
as Self (archive)
2009
0.0
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
as Helen Lawson (archive footage)
2006
0.0
🎬
Bride of Trailer Camp
as (archive footage)
2001
0.0
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
1988
8.0
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
as Dr. Maggie Cole
1972
6.8
The Revengers
as Elizabeth Reilly
1972
5.7
Heat of Anger
as Jessie Fitzgerald
1972
0.0
Valley of the Dolls
as Helen Lawson
1967
6.0
Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage
as Herself
1967
5.0
The Honey Pot
as Mrs. Sheridan
1967
6.4
Uncertain Verification
as (archive footage)
1965
6.6
Where Love Has Gone
as Valerie Hayden Miller
1964
5.9
Stolen Hours
as Laura Pember
1963
5.6
I Thank a Fool
as Christine Allison
1962
5.5
Back Street
as Rae Smith
1961
5.5
Ada
as Ada Gillis
1961
6.4
The Marriage-Go-Round
as Content Delville
1961
3.8
Woman Obsessed
as Mary Sharron
1959
6.3
Thunder in the Sun
as Gabrielle Dauphin
1959
5.5
I Want to Live!
as Barbara Graham
1958
6.9
Top Secret Affair
as Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale
1957
4.3
The Conqueror
as Bortai
1956
3.5
I'll Cry Tomorrow
as Lillian Roth
1955
6.1
Soldier of Fortune
as Mrs. Jane Hoyt
1955
5.9
Untamed
as Katie O'Neill
1955
5.6
Garden of Evil
as Leah Fuller
1954
6.1
Demetrius and the Gladiators
as Messalina
1954
6.4
White Witch Doctor
as Ellen Burton
1953
6.3
The President's Lady
as Rachel Donaldson
1953
6.8
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
The Lusty Men
as Louise Merritt
1952
6.6
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
as Helen Street
1952
5.9
With a Song in My Heart
as Jane Froman
1952
5.9
David and Bathsheba
as Bathsheba
1951
5.7
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
as Harriet Boyd
1951
5.8
Rawhide
as Vinnie Holt
1951
6.7
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
as Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
1951
6.6
My Foolish Heart
as Eloise Winters
1950
6.4
House of Strangers
as Irene Bennett
1949
7.0
Tulsa
as Cherokee Lansing
1949
6.3
The Saxon Charm
as Janet Busch
1948
3.8
Tap Roots
as Morna Dabney
1948
6.7
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
The Lost Moment
as Tina Bordereau
1947
6.1
They Won't Believe Me
as Verna Carlson
1947
6.4
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
as Angie Evans
1947
6.1
Canyon Passage
as Lucy Overmire
1946
6.6
Deadline at Dawn
as June Goffe
1946
6.2
And Now Tomorrow
as Janice Blair
1944
5.7
The Hairy Ape
as Mildred Douglas
1944
5.6
Skirmish on the Home Front
as Molly Miller
1944
0.0
The Fighting Seabees
as Constance Chesley
1944
6.2
Jack London
as Charmian Kittredge
1943
5.6
Hit Parade of 1943
as Jill Wright
1943
5.2
Young and Willing
as Kate Benson
1943
4.7
I Married a Witch
as Estelle Masterson
1942
6.8
The Forest Rangers
as Tana 'Butch' Mason
1942
0.0
A Letter From Bataan
as Mrs. Mary Lewis
1942
4.5
Reap the Wild Wind
as Drusilla Alston
1942
6.4
Star Spangled Rhythm
as Genevieve in Priorities Skit
1942
6.0
Among the Living
as Millie Pickens
1941
6.0
Sis Hopkins
as Carol Hopkins
1941
6.0
Adam Had Four Sons
as Hester Stoddard
1941
5.8
$1,000 a Touchdown
as Betty McGlen
1939
2.0
Our Leading Citizen
as Judith Schofield
1939
0.0
Beau Geste
as Isobel Rivers
1939
6.9
Comet Over Broadway
as Amateur Actress (uncredited)
1938
5.0
Girls on Probation
as Gloria Adams
1938
5.9
The Sisters
as Telephone operator
1938
5.8
Hollywood Hotel
as Starlet at Table (uncredited)
1938
5.4