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Susan Hayward
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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 w…
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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
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2025
Filme Algarve
Movie Lucy Overmire (archive footage)
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2024
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2018
Storm in My Heart
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2009
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2006
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
Movie Helen Lawson (archive footage)
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2006
The Dish on Dolls
Movie Helen Lawson (archive footage)
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2006
The Divine Ms. Susann
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2001
Bride of Trailer Camp
Movie (archive footage)
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1988
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1972
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
Movie Dr. Maggie Cole
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1972
The Revengers
Movie Elizabeth Reilly
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1972
Heat of Anger
Movie Jessie Fitzgerald
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1967
Valley of the Dolls
Movie Helen Lawson
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1967
Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage
Movie Herself
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1967
The Honey Pot
Movie Mrs. Sheridan
More credits
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1965
Uncertain Verification
Movie (archive footage)
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1964
Where Love Has Gone
Movie Valerie Hayden Miller
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1963
Stolen Hours
Movie Laura Pember
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1962
I Thank a Fool
Movie Christine Allison
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1961
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Movie Self - Actress 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1961
Back Street
Movie Rae Smith
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1961
Ada
Movie Ada Gillis
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1961
The Marriage-Go-Round
Movie Content Delville
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1959
Woman Obsessed
Movie Mary Sharron
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1959
Thunder in the Sun
Movie Gabrielle Dauphin
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1958
I Want to Live!
Movie Barbara Graham
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1957
Top Secret Affair
Movie Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale
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1956
The Conqueror
Movie Bortai
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1955
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Movie Lillian Roth
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1955
MGM Parade
TV show
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1955
Soldier of Fortune
Movie Mrs. Jane Hoyt
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1955
Untamed
Movie Katie O'Neill
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1954
Garden of Evil
Movie Leah Fuller
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1954
Demetrius and the Gladiators
Movie Messalina
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1953
White Witch Doctor
Movie Ellen Burton
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1953
The President's Lady
Movie Rachel Donaldson
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1953
The Oscars
TV show Self
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1952
The Lusty Men
Movie Louise Merritt
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1952
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Movie Helen Street
