Susan Hayward
Acting
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.
TV Shows(3)
Movies(73)
Filme Algarve
Lucy Overmire (archive footage)
2025
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
Self (archive footage)
2024
Storm in My Heart
Self (archive footage)
2018
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
Self (archive)
2009
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
Helen Lawson (archive footage)
2006
The Divine Ms. Susann
Self (archive footage)
2006
The Dish on Dolls
Helen Lawson (archive footage)
2006
Bride of Trailer Camp
(archive footage)
2001
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
1988
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
Dr. Maggie Cole
1972
The Revengers
Elizabeth Reilly
1972
Heat of Anger
Jessie Fitzgerald
1972
Valley of the Dolls
Helen Lawson
1967
Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage
Herself
1967
The Honey Pot
Mrs. Sheridan
1967
Uncertain Verification
(archive footage)
1965
Where Love Has Gone
Valerie Hayden Miller
1964
Stolen Hours
Laura Pember
1963
I Thank a Fool
Christine Allison
1962
Back Street
Rae Smith
1961
Ada
Ada Gillis
1961
The Marriage-Go-Round
Content Delville
1961
Woman Obsessed
Mary Sharron
1959
Thunder in the Sun
Gabrielle Dauphin
1959
I Want to Live!
Barbara Graham
1958
Top Secret Affair
Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale
1957
The Conqueror
Bortai
1956
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Lillian Roth
1955
Soldier of Fortune
Mrs. Jane Hoyt
1955
Untamed
Katie O'Neill
1955
Garden of Evil
Leah Fuller
1954
Demetrius and the Gladiators
Messalina
1954
White Witch Doctor
Ellen Burton
1953
The President's Lady
Rachel Donaldson
1953
The Lusty Men
Louise Merritt
1952
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Helen Street
1952
With a Song in My Heart
Jane Froman
1952
David and Bathsheba
Bathsheba
1951
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Harriet Boyd
1951
Rawhide
Vinnie Holt
1951
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
1951
My Foolish Heart
Eloise Winters
1950
House of Strangers
Irene Bennett
1949
Tulsa
Cherokee Lansing
1949
The Saxon Charm
Janet Busch
1948
Tap Roots
Morna Dabney
1948
The Lost Moment
Tina Bordereau
1947
They Won't Believe Me
Verna Carlson
1947
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Angie Evans
1947
Canyon Passage
Lucy Overmire
1946
Deadline at Dawn
June Goffe
1946
And Now Tomorrow
Janice Blair
1944
The Hairy Ape
Mildred Douglas
1944
Skirmish on the Home Front
Molly Miller
1944
The Fighting Seabees
Constance Chesley
1944
Jack London
Charmian Kittredge
1943
Hit Parade of 1943
Jill Wright
1943
Young and Willing
Kate Benson
1943
I Married a Witch
Estelle Masterson
1942
The Forest Rangers
Tana 'Butch' Mason
1942
A Letter From Bataan
Mrs. Mary Lewis
1942
Reap the Wild Wind
Drusilla Alston
1942
Star Spangled Rhythm
Genevieve in Priorities Skit
1942
Among the Living
Millie Pickens
1941
Sis Hopkins
Carol Hopkins
1941
Adam Had Four Sons
Hester Stoddard
1941
$1,000 a Touchdown
Betty McGlen
1939
Our Leading Citizen
Judith Schofield
1939
Beau Geste
Isobel Rivers
1939
Comet Over Broadway
Amateur Actress (uncredited)
1938
Girls on Probation
Gloria Adams
1938
The Sisters
Telephone operator
1938
Hollywood Hotel
Starlet at Table (uncredited)
1938