Susan Hayward
Highest Rated: 100% The Lusty Men (1952)
Lowest Rated: 33% Valley of the Dolls (1967)
Birthday: Jun 30, 1917
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
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.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 33% | The Revengers | Elizabeth Reilly (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Heat of Anger | Jessie Fitzgerald (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole | Dr. Maggie Cole (Character) | - | 1972 |
| 57% | 61% | The Honey Pot | Mrs. Lone Star Crockett Sheridan (Character) | - | 1967 |
| 33% | 59% | Valley of the Dolls | Helen Lawson (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Where Love Has Gone | Valerie Hayden Miller (Character) | - | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stolen Hours | Laura Pember (Character) | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Thank a Fool | Christine Allison (Character) | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Ada | Ada Gillis (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | 70% | Back Street | Rae Smith (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Marriage-Go-Round | Content Delville (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thunder in the Sun | Gabrielle Dauphin (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Woman Obsessed | Mary Sharron (Character) | - | 1959 |
| 94% | 83% | I Want to Live! | Barbara Graham (Character) | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Top Secret Affair | Dorothy "Dottie" Peale (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 11% | The Conqueror | Bortai (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | Untamed | Katie O'Neill Kildare (Character) | - | 1955 |
| 86% | 75% | I'll Cry Tomorrow | Lillian Roth (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | Soldier of Fortune | Mrs. Jane Hoyt (Character) | - | 1955 |
| 86% | 53% | Garden of Evil | Leah Fuller (Character) | - | 1954 |
| 75% | 66% | Demetrius and the Gladiators | Messalina (Character) | - | 1954 |
| 60% | 50% | The President's Lady | Rachel Donaldson (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 12% | White Witch Doctor | Ellen Burton (Character) | - | 1953 |
| 100% | 83% | The Lusty Men | Louise Merritt (Character) | - | 1952 |
| 67% | 61% | With a Song in My Heart | Jane Froman (Character) | - | 1952 |
| 75% | 53% | The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Helen (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | I'd Climb the Highest Mountain | Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | I Can Get It for You Wholesale | Harriet Boyd (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 67% | 32% | David and Bathsheba | Bathsheba (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Rawhide | Vinnie Holt (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 49% | My Foolish Heart | Eloise Winters (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 71% | 75% | House of Strangers | Irene Bennett (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 46% | Tulsa | Cherokee Lansing (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Saxon Charm | Janet Busch (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Tap Roots | Morna Dabney (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | The Lost Moment | Tina Bordereau (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman |
Angelica "Angie"/ |
- | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | 76% | They Won't Believe Me | Verna Carlson (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | 59% | Deadline at Dawn | June Goth (Character) | - | 1946 |
| 100% | 65% | Canyon Passage | Lucy Overmire (Character) | - | 1946 |
| 40% | 17% | The Hairy Ape | Mildred Douglas (Character) | - | 1944 |
| 100% | 72% | The Fighting Seabees | Constance Chesley (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | And Now Tomorrow | Janice Blair (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Young and Willing | Kate Benson (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 12% | The Jack London Story | Charmian Kittredge (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Change of Heart | Jill Wright (Character) | - | 1943 |
| 95% | 69% | I Married a Witch | Estelle Masterson (Character) | - | 1942 |
| 80% | 56% | Reap the Wild Wind | Cousin Drusilla Alston (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Forest Rangers | Tana 'Butch' Mason (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | Adam Had Four Sons | Hester Stoddard (Character) | - | 1941 |
| 80% | 50% | Among the Living | Millie Pickens (Character) | - | 1941 |
| 100% | 85% | Beau Geste | Isobel Rivers (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Our Leading Citizen | Judith Schofield (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | $1,000 a Touchdown | Betty McGlen (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Girls on Probation | Gloria Adams (Character) | - | 1938 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1956 |