Susan Hayward
Acting • Born 1917-06-30 – Died 1975-03-14
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.
Filmography
77 credits
Valley of the Dolls
Movie • 1967
Helen Lawson
House of Strangers
Movie • 1949
Irene Bennett
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Movie • 1952
Helen Street
Tap Roots
Movie • 1948
Morna Dabney
The Fighting Seabees
Movie • 1944
Constance Chesley
Jack London
Movie • 1943
Charmian Kittredge
The Conqueror
Movie • 1956
Bortai
I Married a Witch
Movie • 1942
Estelle Masterson
They Won't Believe Me
Movie • 1947
Verna Carlson
Deadline at Dawn
Movie • 1946
June Goffe
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Movie • 1955
Lillian Roth
I Want to Live!
Movie • 1958
Barbara Graham
Garden of Evil
Movie • 1954
Leah Fuller
David and Bathsheba
Movie • 1951
Bathsheba
Beau Geste
Movie • 1939
Isobel Rivers
Among the Living
Movie • 1941
Millie Pickens
Back Street
Movie • 1961
Rae Smith
Canyon Passage
Movie • 1946
Lucy Overmire
Demetrius and the Gladiators
Movie • 1954
Messalina
The Lusty Men
Movie • 1952
Louise Merritt
Rawhide
Movie • 1951
Vinnie Holt
The Honey Pot
Movie • 1967
Mrs. Sheridan
Hollywood Hotel
Movie • 1938
Starlet at Table (uncredited)
Soldier of Fortune
Movie • 1955
Mrs. Jane Hoyt
Reap the Wild Wind
Movie • 1942
Drusilla Alston
Untamed
Movie • 1955
Katie O'Neill
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Movie • 1947
Angie Evans
With a Song in My Heart
Movie • 1952
Jane Froman
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Movie • 1951
Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
The Lost Moment
Movie • 1947
Tina Bordereau
Where Love Has Gone
Movie • 1964
Valerie Hayden Miller
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Movie • 1951
Harriet Boyd
The President's Lady
Movie • 1953
Rachel Donaldson
I Thank a Fool
Movie • 1962
Christine Allison
Tulsa
Movie • 1949
Cherokee Lansing
Adam Had Four Sons
Movie • 1941
Hester Stoddard
Young and Willing
Movie • 1943
Kate Benson
Star Spangled Rhythm
Movie • 1942
Genevieve in Priorities Skit
My Foolish Heart
Movie • 1950
Eloise Winters
The Marriage-Go-Round
Movie • 1961
Content Delville
Uncertain Verification
Movie • 1965
(archive footage)
The Hairy Ape
Movie • 1944
Mildred Douglas
And Now Tomorrow
Movie • 1944
Janice Blair
White Witch Doctor
Movie • 1953
Ellen Burton
Thunder in the Sun
Movie • 1959
Gabrielle Dauphin
The Saxon Charm
Movie • 1948
Janet Busch
Ada
Movie • 1961
Ada Gillis
Top Secret Affair
Movie • 1957
Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale
Sis Hopkins
Movie • 1941
Carol Hopkins
Girls on Probation
Movie • 1938
Gloria Adams
Woman Obsessed
Movie • 1959
Mary Sharron
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
Movie • 1972
Dr. Maggie Cole
Stolen Hours
Movie • 1963
Laura Pember
Skirmish on the Home Front
Movie • 1944
Molly Miller
The Forest Rangers
Movie • 1942
Tana 'Butch' Mason
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
The Sisters
Movie • 1938
Telephone operator
A Letter From Bataan
Movie • 1942
Mrs. Mary Lewis
$1,000 a Touchdown
Movie • 1939
Betty McGlen
Comet Over Broadway
Movie • 1938
Amateur Actress (uncredited)
Hit Parade of 1943
Movie • 1943
Jill Wright
Our Leading Citizen
Movie • 1939
Judith Schofield
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Movie • 1988
Self (archive footage)
Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage
Movie • 1967
Herself
The Revengers
Movie • 1972
Elizabeth Reilly
Heat of Anger
Movie • 1972
Jessie Fitzgerald
Storm in My Heart
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
Movie • 2009
Self (archive)
Bride of Trailer Camp
Movie • 2001
(archive footage)
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
Movie • 2006
Helen Lawson (archive footage)
Filme Algarve
Movie • 2025
Lucy Overmire (archive footage)
The Divine Ms. Susann
Movie • 2006
Self (archive footage)
The Dish on Dolls
Movie • 2006
Helen Lawson (archive footage)
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
MGM Parade
TV • 1955
MGM Parade
TV • 1955
Self