Susan Hayward
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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 8.588 |
| Birthday | 1917-06-30 |
| Place of Birth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Сьюзен Хэйуорд, |
1967
Valley of the Dolls
6/119
In New York City, bright but naive New Englander Anne Welles becomes a secretary at a theatrical law firm, where she falls in love with attorney Lyon...
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Valley of the Dolls
1949
House of Strangers
6.9/71
Gino Monetti is a ruthless Italian-American banker who is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help thei...
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House of Strangers
1952
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
5.928/90
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1948
Tap Roots
6.4/9
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the con...
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Tap Roots
1944
The Fighting Seabees
6.2/46
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Na...
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The Fighting Seabees
1943
Jack London
5.8/6
The adventurous and remarkable life of the US writer Jack London (1876-1916).
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Jack London
1956
The Conqueror
3.422/51
Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.
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The Conqueror
1942
I Married a Witch
6.8/196
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.
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I Married a Witch
1947
They Won't Believe Me
6.6/42
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but i...
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They Won't Believe Me
1946
Deadline at Dawn
6.2/30
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
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Deadline at Dawn
1955
I'll Cry Tomorrow
6.3/24
Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her...
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I'll Cry Tomorrow
1958
I Want to Live!
6.9/101
Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.
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I Want to Live!
1954
Garden of Evil
6/78
A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches.
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Garden of Evil
1951
David and Bathsheba
5.8/60
King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.
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David and Bathsheba
1939
Beau Geste
6.958/96
When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in t...
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Beau Geste
1941
Among the Living
6.1/27
A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.
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Among the Living
1961
Back Street
5.7/14
Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on...
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Back Street
1946
Canyon Passage
6.6/59
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the l...
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Canyon Passage
1954
Demetrius and the Gladiators
6.5/71
The story picks up at the point where "The Robe" ends, following the martyrdom of Diana and Marcellus. Christ's robe is conveyed to Peter for safe-kee...
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Demetrius and the Gladiators
1951
Rawhide
6.7/54
At a desolate relay station in the west, a stagecoach attendant and a stranded woman traveller are held captive by a band of escaped convicts.
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Rawhide
1952
The Lusty Men
6.6/87
Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers of...
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The Lusty Men
1967
The Honey Pot
6.6/57
A millionaire fakes a terminal illness to fleece his former girlfriends.
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The Honey Pot
1938
Hollywood Hotel
5.4/10
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her curre...
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Hollywood Hotel
1955
Soldier of Fortune
5.9/29
An American woman arrives in Hong Kong to unravel the mystery of her missing photographer husband. After getting nowhere with the authorities, she is...
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Soldier of Fortune
1942
Reap the Wild Wind
6.4/50
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Lo...
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Reap the Wild Wind
1955
Untamed
5.6/11
When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her hu...
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Untamed
1947
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
6/21
A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.
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Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
1952
With a Song in My Heart
5.9/15
Jane Froman (Susan Hayward), an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross (David Wayne), whom she later marries. Jane'...
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With a Song in My Heart
1951
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
6.6/8
A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spi...
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I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
1947
The Lost Moment
6.5/21
In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared m...
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The Lost Moment
1964
Where Love Has Gone
6.1/18
A divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover.
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Where Love Has Gone
1951
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
5.8/10
A ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone in her way in order to reach the top of her profession. Eventually she is forced to choose between her a...
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I Can Get It for You Wholesale
1953
The President's Lady
6.9/13
The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, through his meeting with and subsequent marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. The plot conc...
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The President's Lady
1962
I Thank a Fool
5.5/6
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has comple...
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I Thank a Fool
1949
Tulsa
6.275/20
It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee pla...
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Tulsa
1941
Adam Had Four Sons
6/15
Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After Molly dies, Adam and the boys grow to depend on Em...
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Adam Had Four Sons
1943
Young and Willing
0/0
For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' films during the war years, this is another one of...
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Young and Willing
1942
Star Spangled Rhythm
5.9/8
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddie...
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Star Spangled Rhythm
1950
My Foolish Heart
6.7/15
After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew W...
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My Foolish Heart
1961
The Marriage-Go-Round
4.8/4
An anthropology professor and his professor wife have the perfect marriage--until a Swedish colleague's daughter comes to visit. Not only is the litt...
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The Marriage-Go-Round
1965
Uncertain Verification
6.6/17
A short film containing a collection of clips from various Hollywood movies.
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Uncertain Verification
1944
The Hairy Ape
5.5/4
Aboard ship, a spoiled woman (Susan Hayward) insults the brutish stoker (William Bendix) while watching him work.
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The Hairy Ape
1944
And Now Tomorrow
5.7/3
Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn't...
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And Now Tomorrow
1953
White Witch Doctor
6.3/9
Ellen Burton arrives in Africa to join Dr. Mary as her nurse, bringing modern medicine to the native peoples. Lonni Douglas, an animal wrangler and fo...
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White Witch Doctor
1959
Thunder in the Sun
6/8
A band of Basque immigrants treks through the Old West toward California, where they hope to put down roots and open wineries. When the group's leader...
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Thunder in the Sun
1948
The Saxon Charm
4.3/3
In order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him but his latest protégé, novelist Eric Busch, finall...
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The Saxon Charm
1961
Ada
6.1/14
A popular but naive country singer is elected governor of a southern state and, once in office, decides to dismantle the corrupt political machine tha...
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Ada
1957
Top Secret Affair
4.6/5
A publisher uses her magazine and charm to derail a general on the Washington fast track.
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Top Secret Affair
1941
Sis Hopkins
6/1
An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
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Sis Hopkins
1938
Girls on Probation
5.9/8
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
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Girls on Probation
1959
Woman Obsessed
6.6/9
After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drift...
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Woman Obsessed
1972
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
6.8/6
Maggie Cole is a research scientist who, after the sudden death of her husband, takes a position as an on-call doctor in an inner-city clinic. There,...
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Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
1963
Stolen Hours
5.5/11
A woman diagnosed with a brain tumor falls in love with her doctor.
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Stolen Hours
1961
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
3.3/3
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in t...
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1944
Skirmish on the Home Front
0/0
Promotional short extolling the virtues of the American government's wartime Economic Stabilization Plan.
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Skirmish on the Home Front
1942
The Forest Rangers
0/0
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prov...
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The Forest Rangers
2024
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
0/0
The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that helped bring the catastrophe to light.
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The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
1938
The Sisters
6.1/10
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
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The Sisters
1942
A Letter From Bataan
4.5/4
An American soldier pleads to the folks at home to conserve scarce wartime resources.
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A Letter From Bataan
1939
$1,000 a Touchdown
2/2
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
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$1,000 a Touchdown
1938
Comet Over Broadway
5/2
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
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Comet Over Broadway
1943
Hit Parade of 1943
4.8/5
When amateur songwriter Jill Wright moves from the Midwest to New York City, she is dismayed to discover that Rick Farrell, the owner of Miracle Publi...
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Hit Parade of 1943
1939
Our Leading Citizen
0/0
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to t...
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Our Leading Citizen
1988
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
8/3
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1967
Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage
5/1
The maiden cruise of the ocean liner Italia travels from Italy to California for the premiere of the motion picture "Valley of the Dolls."
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Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage
1972
The Revengers
5.7/34
The life of peaceful rancher John Benedict is torn apart when his family is massacred by a gang of marauding outlaws and his farm is destroyed. He ass...
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The Revengers
1972
Heat of Anger
0/0
A woman attorney and her young associate defend a wealthy contractor accused of murdering an ironworker who was having an affair with the contractor's...
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Heat of Anger
2018
Storm in My Heart
0/0
Despite the many curious similarities between Susan Hayward and Lena Horne-both were born in Brooklyn on exactly the same day, for example-one detail...
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Storm in My Heart
2009
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
0/0
During the 1950s, musical masterpieces that have yet to be equaled were produced in Cinemascope with stereophonic sound. These two episodes explore ho...
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