Susan Hayward

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1917-06-30 (58 years old)

Deathday

1975-03-14

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Susan Hayward

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 s...

Acting

1967

Valley of the Dolls

as Helen Lawson

1949

House of Strangers

as Irene Bennett

1952

1948

Tap Roots

as Morna Dabney

1944

The Fighting Seabees

as Constance Chesley

1943

Jack London

as Charmian Kittredge

1956

The Conqueror

as Bortai

1942

I Married a Witch

as Estelle Masterson

1947

They Won't Believe Me

as Verna Carlson

1946

Deadline at Dawn

as June Goffe

1955

I'll Cry Tomorrow

as Lillian Roth

1958

I Want to Live!

as Barbara Graham

1954

Garden of Evil

as Leah Fuller

1951

1939

Beau Geste

as Isobel Rivers

1941

Among the Living

as Millie Pickens

1961

Back Street

as Rae Smith

1946

Canyon Passage

as Lucy Overmire

1951

Rawhide

as Vinnie Holt

1952

The Lusty Men

as Louise Merritt

1967

The Honey Pot

as Mrs. Sheridan

1938

Hollywood Hotel

as Starlet at Table (uncredited)

1955

Soldier of Fortune

as Mrs. Jane Hoyt

1942

Reap the Wild Wind

as Drusilla Alston

1955

Untamed

as Katie O'Neill

1952

1951

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

as Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson

1947

The Lost Moment

as Tina Bordereau

1964

Where Love Has Gone

as Valerie Hayden Miller

1953

The President's Lady

as Rachel Donaldson

1962

I Thank a Fool

as Christine Allison

1949

Tulsa

as Cherokee Lansing

1941

Adam Had Four Sons

as Hester Stoddard

1943

Young and Willing

as Kate Benson

1942

Star Spangled Rhythm

as Genevieve in Priorities Skit

1950

My Foolish Heart

as Eloise Winters

1961

The Marriage-Go-Round

as Content Delville

1965

Uncertain Verification

as (archive footage)

1944

The Hairy Ape

as Mildred Douglas

1944

And Now Tomorrow

as Janice Blair

1953

White Witch Doctor

as Ellen Burton

1959

Thunder in the Sun

as Gabrielle Dauphin

1948

The Saxon Charm

as Janet Busch

1961

Ada

as Ada Gillis

1957

Top Secret Affair

as Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale

1941

Sis Hopkins

as Carol Hopkins

1938

Girls on Probation

as Gloria Adams

1959

Woman Obsessed

as Mary Sharron

1972

Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole

as Dr. Maggie Cole

1963

Stolen Hours

as Laura Pember

1961

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)

1944

1942

The Forest Rangers

as Tana 'Butch' Mason

2024

The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout

as Self (archive footage)

1938

The Sisters

as Telephone operator

1942

A Letter From Bataan

as Mrs. Mary Lewis

1939

$1,000 a Touchdown

as Betty McGlen

1938

Comet Over Broadway

as Amateur Actress (uncredited)

1943

Hit Parade of 1943

as Jill Wright

1939

Our Leading Citizen

as Judith Schofield

1988

1972

The Revengers

as Elizabeth Reilly

1972

Heat of Anger

as Jessie Fitzgerald

2018

Storm in My Heart

as Self (archive footage)

2001

Bride of Trailer Camp

as (archive footage)

2025

Filme Algarve

as Lucy Overmire (archive footage)

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