Susan Hayward

Susan Hayward Headshot

Actress

Birth Date: June 30, 1917

Death Date: March 14, 1975

Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York City, New York

Pretty, exuberant leading lady who began her Hollywood career in 1937 as a bit player and was a star by the mid-1940s. Talented and tempestuous, with a penchant for playing ripe melodrama with all the stops out, Hayward reached her peak in the early 1950s in such enjoyably sudsy vehicles as "My Foolish Heart" (1950), "With a Song in My Heart" (1952) and "I'll Cry Tomorrow" (1955). She was often cast as the brassy, defiant heroine, as in her Oscar-winning role "I Want to Live!" (1958), where she splendidly played the real-life Barbara Graham, a woman who was wrongly sentenced to death. Hayward's stardom petered out by the mid-60s, but she continued playing occasional leads and character roles (including a part as a past-her-prime film star in the abysmal "Valley of the Dolls" 1969) on film and TV until shortly before her death of a brain tumor in 1975.

Credits

Cine Clásico

Actor
Jane Froman
Show
2013

Los caraduros

Actor
Movie
1983

Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole

Actor
Dr. Maggie Cole
Movie
1972

Heat of Anger

Actor
Jessie Fitzgerald
Movie
1972

The Revengers

Actor
Elizabeth Reilly
Movie
1972

Valley of the DollsStream

Actor
Helen Lawson
Movie
1967
33%

The Honey Pot

Actor
Mrs. Lone Star Crockett Sheridan
Movie
1967

Where Love Has Gone

Actor
Valerie Hayden Miller
Movie
1964

Stolen Hours

Actor
Laura Pember
Movie
1963

I Thank a Fool

Actor
Christine Allison
Movie
1962

Back Street

Actor
Rae Smith
Movie
1961

Ada

Actor
Ada Gillis
Movie
1961

The Marriage-Go-Round

Actor
Content Delville
Movie
1960

Thunder in the SunStream

Actor
Gabrielle Dauphin
Movie
1959

Woman Obsessed

Actor
Mary Sharron
Movie
1959

I Want to Live!Stream

Actor
Barbara Graham
Movie
1958
94%

Top Secret Affair

Actor
Dorothy "Dottie" Peale
Movie
1957

The Conqueror

Actor
Bortai
Movie
1956

I'll Cry TomorrowStream

Actor
Lillian Roth
Movie
1955
86%

Untamed

Actor
Katie O'Neill Kildare
Movie
1955

Soldier of Fortune

Actor
Mrs. Jane Hoyt
Movie
1955

Climax!Stream

Actor
Series
1954

Demetrius and the GladiatorsStream

Actor
Messalina
Movie
1954
75%

Garden of Evil

Actor
Leah Fuller
Movie
1954
86%

The President's Lady

Actor
Rachel Donaldson
Movie
1953

White Witch Doctor

Actor
Ellen Burton
Movie
1953

The Snows of KilimanjaroStream

Actor
Helen
Movie
1952
75%

The Lusty MenStream

Actor
Louise Merritt
Movie
1952
100%

With a Song in My Heart

Actor
Jane Froman
Movie
1952

Rawhide

Actor
Vinnie Holt
Movie
1951

David and BathshebaStream

Actor
Bathsheba
Movie
1951
60%

I Can Get It for You Wholesale

Actor
Harriet Boyd
Movie
1951

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

Actor
Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
Movie
1951

My Foolish Heart

Actor
Eloise Winters
Movie
1949

House of Strangers

Actor
Irene Bennett
Movie
1949
71%

Tulsa

Actor
Cherokee Lansing
Movie
1949

The Saxon Charm

Actor
Janet Busch
Movie
1948

Tap Roots

Actor
Morna Dabney
Movie
1948

Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

Actor
Angelica "Angie"/"Angel" Evans Conway
Movie
1947

The Lost Moment

Actor
Tina Bordereau
Movie
1947

They Won't Believe Me

Actor
Verna Carlson
Movie
1947

Canyon Passage

Actor
Lucy Overmire
Movie
1946

Deadline at Dawn

Actor
June Goth
Movie
1946

The Fighting Seabees

Actor
Constance Chesley
Movie
1944

And Now Tomorrow

Actor
Janice Blair
Movie
1944

The Hairy Ape

Actor
Mildred Douglas
Movie
1944

Change of Heart

Actor
Jill Wright
Movie
1943

The Jack London Story

Actor
Charmian Kittredge
Movie
1943

Young and Willing

Actor
Kate Benson
Movie
1943

I Married a WitchStream

Actor
Estelle Masterson
Movie
1942
95%

The Forest Rangers

Actor
Tana 'Butch' Mason
Movie
1942

Reap the Wild Wind

Actor
Cousin Drusilla Alston
Movie
1942

Adam Had Four Sons

Actor
Hester Stoddard
Movie
1941

Among the Living

Actor
Millie Pickens
Movie
1941

Beau Geste

Actor
Isobel Rivers
Movie
1939

Our Leading Citizen

Actor
Judith Schofield
Movie
1939

$1,000 a Touchdown

Actor
Betty McGlen
Movie
1939

Girls on Probation

Actor
Gloria Adams
Movie
1938