Personal Info
Birth date
1917-06-30 (107 Years)
Day of death
1975-03-14
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also known as
Сьюзен Хэйуорд
Edythe Marrenner
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 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
The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8
Overview:
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.The Oscars
7
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An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.Tulsa
6.114
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It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.The Snows of Kilimanjaro
5.9
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Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.Demetrius and the Gladiators
6.5
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The story picks up at the point where "The Robe" ends, following the martyrdom of Diana and Marcellus. Christ's robe is conveyed to Peter for safe-keeping, but the emperor Caligula wants it back to benefit from its powers. Marcellus' former slave Demetrius seeks to prevent this, and catches the eye of Messalina, wife to Caligula's uncle Claudius. Messalina tempts Demetrius, he winds up fighting in the arena, and wavers in his faith.David and Bathsheba
5.7
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King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.Canyon Passage
6.6
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In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.I Married a Witch
6.8
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A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.The Conqueror
3.4
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Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.Reap the Wild Wind
6.391
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The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.The Lusty Men
6.6
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Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers of this rough sport.Valley of the Dolls
6
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Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show business and discover how easy it is to sink into a celebrity nightmare of ego, alcohol and pills — the beloved "dolls."Rawhide
6.7
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At a desolate relay station in the west, a stagecoach attendant and a stranded woman traveller are held captive by a band of escaped convicts.Beau Geste
6.971
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When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in the scorching Sahara. Now the brothers must fight for their lives as they plot mutiny against tyranny and defend a desert fortress against a brutal enemy.Garden of Evil
6.127
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A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches.House of Strangers
6.893
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Gino Monetti is a ruthless Italian-American banker who is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business practices. Three of the sons take over the business but kick their father out. Max, a lawyer, is the only son that stays loyal to his father.I'll Cry Tomorrow
6.3
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Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.Ada
6.4
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A popular but naive country singer is elected governor of a southern state and, once in office, decides to dismantle the corrupt political machine that got him elected. Director Daniel Mann's 1961 political drama stars Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, Wilfred Hyde-White, Martin Balsam, Ralph Meeker, Connie Sawyer, William Walker, Ray Teal, Larry Gates and Kathryn Card.The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
8
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The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that helped bring the catastrophe to light.I Want to Live!
6.926
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Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.The Revengers
5.7
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The life of peaceful rancher John Benedict is torn apart when his family is massacred by a gang of marauding outlaws and his farm is destroyed. He assembles a team of mean, lawless convicts to act as his posse as he pursues the gang responsible for the deaths of his loved ones.Untamed
5.636
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When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her husband, who decide that the promised land is South Africa and make their way there. Once there, they discover the hardships that are the reality of the homesteader experience.The Fighting Seabees
6.2
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Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
8
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This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
6.1
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A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.Tap Roots
6.4
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Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.They Won't Believe Me
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On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.The Saxon Charm
4.3
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In order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him but his latest protégé, novelist Eric Busch, finally stands-up to him.And Now Tomorrow
5.7
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Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn't work. Her sister is carrying on an affair with her fiance Jeff. Vance tries a new serum which causes Emily to faint... Will it work this time?Back Street
5.8
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Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's a definite spark between them but circumstances intervene and he leaves town without her. Later she learns he's married. Determined to make it as a fashion designer, Rae moves to New York and becomes a great success. One day she happens to meet Paul again and again there's that spark but he's still married so, as a form of escape, Rae moves to Rome to set up shop. Once again she meets Paul and finally they begin an actual affair since Paul's shrewish, drunken wife, Liz, won't give him a divorce. Time passes, the affair continues whenever time and place permit, but then, Paul's young son finds out about Rae and Rae's back-street world begins to crumble.Acting
2024The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout as Self (archive footage)
2018Storm in My Heart as Self (archive footage)
2009Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical as Self (archive)
2006Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls' as Helen Lawson (archive footage)
2001Bride of Trailer Camp as (Archival)
1988The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind as Self (archive footage)
1972Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole as Dr. Maggie Cole
1972The Revengers as Elizabeth Reilly
1972Heat of Anger as Jessie Fitzgerald
1967Valley of the Dolls as Helen Lawson
1967Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage as Herself
1967The Honey Pot as Mrs. Sheridan
1965Uncertain Verification as (archive footage)
1964Where Love Has Gone as Valerie Hayden Miller
1963Stolen Hours as Laura Pember
1962I Thank a Fool as Christine Allison
1961Hollywood: The Selznick Years as 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
1961Back Street as Rae Smith
1961Ada as Ada Gillis
1961The Marriage-Go-Round as Content Delville
1959Woman Obsessed as Mary Sharron
1959Thunder in the Sun as Gabrielle Dauphin
1958I Want to Live! as Barbara Graham
1957Top Secret Affair as Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale
1956The Conqueror as Bortai
1955I'll Cry Tomorrow as Lillian Roth
1955Soldier of Fortune as Mrs. Jane Hoyt
1955Untamed as Katie O'Neill
1954Garden of Evil as Leah Fuller
1954Demetrius and the Gladiators as Messalina
1953White Witch Doctor as Ellen Burton
1953The President's Lady as Rachel Donaldson
1953The Oscars (3 Episodes) as Self
1952The Lusty Men as Louise Merritt
1952The Snows of Kilimanjaro as Helen Street
1952With a Song in My Heart as Jane Froman
1951David and Bathsheba as Bathsheba
1951I Can Get It for You Wholesale as Harriet Boyd
1951Rawhide as Vinnie Holt
1951I'd Climb the Highest Mountain as Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
1950My Foolish Heart as Eloise Winters
1949House of Strangers as Irene Bennett
1949Tulsa as Cherokee Lansing
1948The Saxon Charm as Janet Busch
1948Tap Roots as Morna Dabney
1948The Ed Sullivan Show (2 Episodes) as Self
1947The Lost Moment as Tina Bordereau
1947They Won't Believe Me as Verna Carlson
1947Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman as Angie Evans
1946Canyon Passage as Lucy Overmire
1946Deadline at Dawn as June Goffe
1944And Now Tomorrow as Janice Blair
1944The Hairy Ape as Mildred Douglas
1944Skirmish on the Home Front as Molly Miller
1944The Fighting Seabees as Constance Chesley
1943Jack London as Charmian Kittredge
1943Hit Parade of 1943 as Jill Wright
1943Young and Willing as Kate Benson
1942I Married a Witch as Estelle Masterson
1942The Forest Rangers as Tana 'Butch' Mason
1942A Letter From Bataan as Mrs. Mary Lewis
1942Reap the Wild Wind as Drusilla Alston
1942Star Spangled Rhythm as Genevieve in Priorities Skit
1941Among the Living as Millie Pickens
1941Sis Hopkins as Carol Hopkins
1941Adam Had Four Sons as Hester Stoddard
1939$1,000 a Touchdown as Betty McGlen
1939Our Leading Citizen as Judith Schofield
1939Beau Geste as Isobel Rivers
1938Comet Over Broadway as Amateur Actress (uncredited)
1938Girls on Probation as Gloria Adams
1938The Sisters as Telephone operator
1938Hollywood Hotel as Starlet at Table (uncredited)