Susan Hayward

from Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Artwork for Valley of the DollsImage of 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.

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Timeline

2025Aged 108

  • Poster for Filme Algarve

    Lucy Overmire (archive footage)

2024Aged 107

  • Poster for The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout

    Self (archive footage)

2020Aged 103

  • Poster for Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests

    Self (archive footage)

2018Aged 101

2009Aged 92

  • Poster for Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical

    Self (archive)

2006Aged 89

2001Aged 84

1988Aged 71

  • Poster for The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

    Self (archive footage)

1972Aged 55

  • Poster for Heat of Anger

    Jessie Fitzgerald

  • Poster for The Revengers

    Elizabeth Reilly

  • Poster for Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole

    Dr. Maggie Cole

1967Aged 50

  • Poster for The Honey Pot

    Mrs. Sheridan

  • Poster for Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage

    Herself

  • Poster for Valley of the Dolls

    Helen Lawson

1965Aged 48

  • Poster for Uncertain Verification

    (archive footage)

1964Aged 47

  • Poster for Where Love Has Gone

    Valerie Hayden Miller

1963Aged 46

  • Poster for Stolen Hours

    Laura Pember

1962Aged 45

  • Poster for I Thank a Fool

    Christine Allison

1961Aged 44

  • Poster for The Marriage-Go-Round

    Content Delville

  • Poster for Ada

    Ada Gillis

  • Poster for Back Street

    Rae Smith

  • Poster for Hollywood: The Selznick Years

    Self - Actress 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)

1959Aged 42

  • Poster for Thunder in the Sun

    Gabrielle Dauphin

  • Poster for Woman Obsessed

    Mary Sharron

1958Aged 41

  • Poster for I Want to Live!

    Barbara Graham

1957Aged 40

  • Poster for Top Secret Affair

    Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale

1956Aged 39

  • Poster for The Conqueror

    Bortai

1955Aged 38

  • Poster for Untamed

    Katie O'Neill

  • Poster for Soldier of Fortune

    Mrs. Jane Hoyt

  • Poster for I'll Cry Tomorrow

    Lillian Roth

1954Aged 37

  • Poster for Demetrius and the Gladiators

    Messalina

  • Poster for Garden of Evil

    Leah Fuller

1953Aged 36

  • Poster for The President's Lady

    Rachel Donaldson

  • Poster for White Witch Doctor

    Ellen Burton

1952Aged 35

  • Poster for With a Song in My Heart

    Jane Froman

  • Poster for The Snows of Kilimanjaro

    Helen Street

  • Poster for The Lusty Men

    Louise Merritt

1951Aged 34

  • Poster for I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

    Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson

  • Poster for Rawhide

    Vinnie Holt

  • Poster for I Can Get It for You Wholesale

    Harriet Boyd

  • Poster for David and Bathsheba

    Bathsheba

1950Aged 33

  • Poster for My Foolish Heart

    Eloise Winters

1949Aged 32

  • Poster for Tulsa

    Cherokee Lansing

  • Poster for House of Strangers

    Irene Bennett

1948Aged 31

  • Poster for Tap Roots

    Morna Dabney

  • Poster for The Saxon Charm

    Janet Busch

1947Aged 30

  • Poster for Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

    Angie Evans

  • Poster for They Won't Believe Me

    Verna Carlson

  • Poster for The Lost Moment

    Tina Bordereau

1946Aged 29

  • Poster for Deadline at Dawn

    June Goffe

  • Poster for Canyon Passage

    Lucy Overmire

1944Aged 27

1943Aged 26

  • Poster for Young and Willing

    Kate Benson

  • Poster for Hit Parade of 1943

    Jill Wright

  • Poster for Jack London

    Charmian Kittredge

1942Aged 25

  • Poster for Star Spangled Rhythm

    Genevieve in Priorities Skit

  • Poster for Reap the Wild Wind

    Drusilla Alston

  • Poster for A Letter From Bataan

    Mrs. Mary Lewis

  • Poster for The Forest Rangers

    Tana 'Butch' Mason

  • Poster for I Married a Witch

    Estelle Masterson

1941Aged 24

  • Poster for Adam Had Four Sons

    Hester Stoddard

  • Poster for Sis Hopkins

    Carol Hopkins

  • Poster for Among the Living

    Millie Pickens

1939Aged 22

  • Poster for Beau Geste

    Isobel Rivers

  • Poster for Our Leading Citizen

    Judith Schofield

  • Poster for $1,000 a Touchdown

    Betty McGlen

1938Aged 21

  • Poster for Hollywood Hotel

    Starlet at Table (uncredited)

  • Poster for Campus Cinderella

    Co-Ed

  • Poster for The Sisters

    Telephone operator

  • Poster for Girls on Probation

    Gloria Adams

  • Poster for Comet Over Broadway

    Amateur Actress (uncredited)