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Susan Hayward
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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 Acad…
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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.
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BODY OF WORK
Susan Hayward's Filmography
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Filme Algarve
as Lucy Overmire (archive footage)
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
as Self (archive footage)
Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Storm in My Heart
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
as Self (archive)
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
as Helen Lawson (archive footage)
The Dish on Dolls
as Helen Lawson (archive footage)
No Poster
The Divine Ms. Susann
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Bride of Trailer Camp
as (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
as Dr. Maggie Cole
The Revengers
as Elizabeth Reilly
Heat of Anger
as Jessie Fitzgerald
Valley of the Dolls
as Helen Lawson
Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage
as Herself
The Honey Pot
as Mrs. Sheridan
Uncertain Verification
as (archive footage)
Where Love Has Gone
as Valerie Hayden Miller
Stolen Hours
as Laura Pember
I Thank a Fool
as Christine Allison
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as Self - Actress 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
Back Street
as Rae Smith
Ada
as Ada Gillis
The Marriage-Go-Round
as Content Delville
Woman Obsessed
as Mary Sharron
Thunder in the Sun
as Gabrielle Dauphin
I Want to Live!
as Barbara Graham
Top Secret Affair
as Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale
The Conqueror
as Bortai
I'll Cry Tomorrow
as Lillian Roth
Soldier of Fortune
as Mrs. Jane Hoyt
Untamed
as Katie O'Neill
Garden of Evil
as Leah Fuller
Demetrius and the Gladiators
as Messalina
White Witch Doctor
as Ellen Burton
The President's Lady
as Rachel Donaldson
The Lusty Men
as Louise Merritt
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
as Helen Street
With a Song in My Heart
as Jane Froman
David and Bathsheba
as Bathsheba
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
as Harriet Boyd
Rawhide
as Vinnie Holt
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
as Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
My Foolish Heart
as Eloise Winters
House of Strangers
as Irene Bennett
Tulsa
as Cherokee Lansing
The Saxon Charm
as Janet Busch
Tap Roots
as Morna Dabney
The Lost Moment
as Tina Bordereau
They Won't Believe Me
as Verna Carlson
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
as Angie Evans
Canyon Passage
as Lucy Overmire
Deadline at Dawn
as June Goffe
And Now Tomorrow
as Janice Blair
The Hairy Ape
as Mildred Douglas
No Poster
Skirmish on the Home Front
as Molly Miller
The Fighting Seabees
as Constance Chesley
Jack London
as Charmian Kittredge
Hit Parade of 1943
as Jill Wright
Young and Willing
as Kate Benson
I Married a Witch
as Estelle Masterson
The Forest Rangers
as Tana 'Butch' Mason
A Letter From Bataan
as Mrs. Mary Lewis
Reap the Wild Wind
as Drusilla Alston
Star Spangled Rhythm
as Genevieve in Priorities Skit
Among the Living
as Millie Pickens
Sis Hopkins
as Carol Hopkins
Adam Had Four Sons
as Hester Stoddard
$1,000 a Touchdown
as Betty McGlen
Our Leading Citizen
as Judith Schofield
Beau Geste
as Isobel Rivers
Comet Over Broadway
as Amateur Actress (uncredited)
Girls on Probation
as Gloria Adams
The Sisters
as Telephone operator
Campus Cinderella
as Co-Ed
Hollywood Hotel
as Starlet at Table (uncredited)