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