Susan Hayward
Date of birth: 1917-06-30
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Сьюзен Хэйуорд, Edythe Marrenner
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.
Movie Credits
Valley of the Dolls
1967-12-27
Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show busin
House of Strangers
1949-07-01
Gino Monetti is a ruthless Italian-American banker who is engaged in a number of criminal activities
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952-10-08
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the s
Tap Roots
1948-08-25
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses
The Fighting Seabees
1944-01-27
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work
Jack London
1943-12-24
The adventurous and remarkable life of the US writer Jack London (1876-1916).
The Conqueror
1956-03-28
Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. T
I Married a Witch
1942-10-30
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter
They Won't Believe Me
1947-07-16
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to
Deadline at Dawn
1946-03-18
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of m
I Want to Live!
1958-11-18
Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a
I'll Cry Tomorrow
1955-12-25
Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and
Garden of Evil
1954-07-09
A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue
David and Bathsheba
1951-08-10
King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequen
Beau Geste
1939-07-24
When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped
Among the Living
1941-12-12
A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for hi
Back Street
1961-10-11
Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store c
Canyon Passage
1946-07-17
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty
Demetrius and the Gladiators
1954-06-16
The story picks up at the point where "The Robe" ends, following the martyrdom of Diana and Marcellu
The Lusty Men
1952-10-24
Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the
Rawhide
1951-03-25
At a desolate relay station in the west, a stagecoach attendant and a stranded woman traveller are h
The Honey Pot
1967-05-21
A millionaire fakes a terminal illness to fleece his former girlfriends.
Hollywood Hotel
1938-01-15
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola
Soldier of Fortune
1955-05-24
An American woman arrives in Hong Kong to unravel the mystery of her missing photographer husband. A
Reap the Wild Wind
1942-03-26
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvage
Untamed
1955-03-01
When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those le
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
1947-03-01
A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.
With a Song in My Heart
1952-04-03
Jane Froman, an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross, whom she
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
1951-02-17
A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia
The Lost Moment
1947-11-21
In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19
Where Love Has Gone
1964-11-02
A divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover.
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
1951-04-05
A ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone in her way in order to reach the top of her profession
The President's Lady
1953-05-21
The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, through his meeting with and subsequent
I Thank a Fool
1962-09-14
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license a
Tulsa
1949-04-13
It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in
Adam Had Four Sons
1941-03-27
Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After
Young and Willing
1943-02-05
For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' f
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942-03-05
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son a
My Foolish Heart
1950-01-19
After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise
The Marriage-Go-Round
1961-01-06
An anthropology professor and his professor wife have the perfect marriage--until a Swedish colleagu
Uncertain Verification
1965-04-30
A short film containing a collection of clips from various Hollywood movies.
The Hairy Ape
1944-07-02
Aboard ship, a spoiled woman (Susan Hayward) insults the brutish stoker (William Bendix) while watch
And Now Tomorrow
1944-11-22
Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to
White Witch Doctor
1953-07-01
Ellen Burton arrives in Africa to join Dr. Mary as her nurse, bringing modern medicine to the native
Thunder in the Sun
1959-04-08
A band of Basque immigrants treks through the Old West toward California, where they hope to put dow
The Saxon Charm
1948-09-28
In order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him b
Ada
1961-08-25
A popular but naive country singer is elected governor of a southern state and, once in office, deci
Top Secret Affair
1957-01-30
A publisher uses her magazine and charm to derail a general on the Washington fast track.
Sis Hopkins
1941-04-12
An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
Girls on Probation
1938-10-22
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
Woman Obsessed
1959-05-27
After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
1972-09-27
Maggie Cole is a research scientist who, after the sudden death of her husband, takes a position as
Stolen Hours
1963-10-02
A woman diagnosed with a brain tumor falls in love with her doctor.
Skirmish on the Home Front
1944-05-11
Promotional short extolling the virtues of the American government's wartime Economic Stabilization
The Forest Rangers
1942-10-21
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidenc
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
2024-06-28
The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible
The Sisters
1938-10-14
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marr
A Letter From Bataan
1942-09-15
An American soldier pleads to the folks at home to conserve scarce wartime resources.
$1,000 a Touchdown
1939-10-04
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each to
Comet Over Broadway
1938-12-03
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
Hit Parade of 1943
1943-03-26
When amateur songwriter Jill Wright moves from the Midwest to New York City, she is dismayed to disc
Our Leading Citizen
1939-08-23
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on ex
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988-10-01
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insig
Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage
1967-12-20
The maiden cruise of the ocean liner Italia travels from Italy to California for the premiere of the
The Revengers
1972-06-21
The life of peaceful rancher John Benedict is torn apart when his family is massacred by a gang of m
Heat of Anger
1972-03-03
A woman attorney and her young associate defend a wealthy contractor accused of murdering an ironwor
Storm in My Heart
2018-02-01
Despite the many curious similarities between Susan Hayward and Lena Horne-both were born in Brookly
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
2009-03-10
During the 1950s, musical masterpieces that have yet to be equaled were produced in Cinemascope with
Bride of Trailer Camp
2001-06-21
A compilation of "coming attractions" from bad '50s melodrama through the greatest disaster movies o
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
2006-07-15
We look at why Valley of the Dolls is so beloved and appreciated, both for its "badness" and hidden
Filme Algarve
2025-07-17