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

• 2025Filme Algarve — Lucy Overmire (archive footage)
• 2006Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls' — Helen Lawson (archive footage)
• 2006The Dish on Dolls — Helen Lawson (archive footage)
• 2001Bride of Trailer Camp — (archive footage)
• 1972Heat of Anger — Jessie Fitzgerald
• 1972Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole — Dr. Maggie Cole
• 1972The Revengers — Elizabeth Reilly
• 1967The Honey Pot — Mrs. Sheridan
• 1967Valley of the Dolls — Helen Lawson
• 1965Uncertain Verification — (archive footage)
• 1964Where Love Has Gone — Valerie Hayden Miller
• 1963Stolen Hours — Laura Pember
• 1962I Thank a Fool — Christine Allison
• 1961Ada — Ada Gillis
• 1961Back Street — Rae Smith
• 1961The Marriage-Go-Round — Content Delville
• 1959Thunder in the Sun — Gabrielle Dauphin
• 1959Woman Obsessed — Mary Sharron
• 1958I Want to Live! — Barbara Graham
• 1957Top Secret Affair — Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale
• 1956The Conqueror — Bortai
• 1955I'll Cry Tomorrow — Lillian Roth
• 1955Soldier of Fortune — Mrs. Jane Hoyt
• 1955Untamed — Katie O'Neill
• 1954Demetrius and the Gladiators — Messalina
• 1954Garden of Evil — Leah Fuller
• 1953The President's Lady — Rachel Donaldson
• 1953White Witch Doctor — Ellen Burton
• 1952The Lusty Men — Louise Merritt
• 1952The Snows of Kilimanjaro — Helen Street
• 1952With a Song in My Heart — Jane Froman
• 1951David and Bathsheba — Bathsheba
• 1951I Can Get It for You Wholesale — Harriet Boyd
• 1951I'd Climb the Highest Mountain — Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
• 1951Rawhide — Vinnie Holt
• 1950My Foolish Heart — Eloise Winters
• 1949House of Strangers — Irene Bennett
• 1949Tulsa — Cherokee Lansing
• 1948Tap Roots — Morna Dabney
• 1948The Saxon Charm — Janet Busch
• 1947Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman — Angie Evans
• 1947The Lost Moment — Tina Bordereau
• 1947They Won't Believe Me — Verna Carlson
• 1946Canyon Passage — Lucy Overmire
• 1946Deadline at Dawn — June Goffe
• 1944And Now Tomorrow — Janice Blair
• 1944Skirmish on the Home Front — Molly Miller
• 1944The Fighting Seabees — Constance Chesley
• 1944The Hairy Ape — Mildred Douglas
• 1943Hit Parade of 1943 — Jill Wright
• 1943Jack London — Charmian Kittredge
• 1943Young and Willing — Kate Benson
• 1942A Letter From Bataan — Mrs. Mary Lewis
• 1942I Married a Witch — Estelle Masterson
• 1942Reap the Wild Wind — Drusilla Alston
• 1942Star Spangled Rhythm — Genevieve in Priorities Skit
• 1942The Forest Rangers — Tana 'Butch' Mason
• 1941Adam Had Four Sons — Hester Stoddard
• 1941Among the Living — Millie Pickens
• 1941Sis Hopkins — Carol Hopkins
• 1939$1,000 a Touchdown — Betty McGlen
• 1939Beau Geste — Isobel Rivers
• 1939Our Leading Citizen — Judith Schofield
• 1938Campus Cinderella — Co-Ed
• 1938Comet Over Broadway — Amateur Actress (uncredited)
• 1938Girls on Probation — Gloria Adams
• 1938Hollywood Hotel — Starlet at Table (uncredited)
• 1938The Sisters — Telephone operator

Appearances as themselves (11)

• 2024The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Storm in My Heart — Self (archive footage)
• 2009Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical — Self (archive)
• 2006The Divine Ms. Susann — Self (archive footage)
• 1988The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind — Self (archive footage)
• 1967Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage — Herself
• 1961Hollywood: The Selznick Years — Self - Actress 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
• MGM Parade — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self