Susan Hayward (June 30, 1917 - March 14, 1975) was an American actress.

Born Edythe Marrenner in Brooklyn, New York, she began her career as a photographer's model. She went to Hollywood in 1939, aiming to become the unknown who won the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. Although she didn't get that role, she won the role of the female lead in Beau Geste. She played a dramatic role in Among the Living , and a Southern belle in Reap the Wild Wind.

In 1947 Hayward received the first of her five Academy Award nominations for Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman. Other major films included I'll Cry Tomorrow and I Want to Live!, for which she won the Oscar.

The brain cancer which took her life is traced by some back to her work in The Conqueror, filmed about 100 miles downwind of active Nevadan nuclear-weapon test sites, and in sets dressed with truckloads of dirt from the area.

Academy Awards and Nominations

• 1959 - Won Best Actress in a Leading Role - I Want to Live!
• 1956 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - I'll Cry Tomorrow
• 1953 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - With a Song in My Heart
• 1950 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - My Foolish Heart
• 1948 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman

Hayward has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6251 Hollywood Blvd.

Filmography

• Hollywood Hotel (1937)
• The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) (scenes deleted)
• Campus Cinderella (1938) (short subject)
• The Sisters (1938)
• Girls on Probation (1938)
• Comet Over Broadway (1938)
• Beau Geste (1939)
• Our Leading Citizen (1939)
• $1000 a Touchdown (1939)
• Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
• Sis Hopkins (1941)
• Among the Living (1941)
• Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
• A Letter from Bataan (1942) (short subject)
• The Forest Rangers (1942)
• I Married a Witch (1942)
• Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
• Young and Willing (1943)
• Hit Parade of 1943 (1943)
• Jack London (1943)
• The Fighting Seabees (1944)
• Skirmish on the Home Front (1944) (short subject)
• The Hairy Apes (1944)
• And Now Tomorrow (1944)
• Deadline at Dawn (1946)
• Canyon Passage (1946)
• Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947)
• They Won't Believe Me (1947)
• The Lost Moment (1947)
• Tap Roots (1948)
• The Saxon Charm (1948)
• Tulsa (1949)
• House of Strangers (1949)
• My Foolish Heart (1949)
• I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951)
• Rawhide (1951)
• I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951)
• David and Bathsheba (1951)
• (1951) (short subject)
• With a Song in My Heart (1952)
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
• The Lusty Men (1952)
• The President's Lady (1953)
• White Witch Doctor (1953)
• Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)
• Garden of Evil (1954)
• Untamed (1955)
• Soldier of Fortune (1955)
• I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
• The Conquerer (1956)
• Top Secret Affair (1957)
• I Want to Live! (1958)
• Thunder in the Sun (1959)
• Woman Obsessed (1959)
• The Marriage-Go-Round (1961)
• Ada (1961)
• Back Street (1961)
• I Thank a Fool (1962)
• Stolen Hours (1963)
• Where Love Has Gone (1964)
• Think Twentieth (1967) (short subject)
• The Honey Pot (1967)
• Valley of the Dolls (1967)
• The Revengers (1972)

External links

• Article about the radioactive film set (from The Straight Dope)