Susan Hayward
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
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 o...
Known For
Filmography
Filme Algarve
2025
as Lucy Overmire (archive footage)
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Storm in My Heart
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
2009
as Self (archive)
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
2006
as Helen Lawson (archive footage)
The Divine Ms. Susann
2006
as Self (archive footage)
The Dish on Dolls
2006
as Helen Lawson (archive footage)
Bride of Trailer Camp
2001
as (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
as Self (archive footage)
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
1972
as Dr. Maggie Cole
The Revengers
1972
as Elizabeth Reilly
Heat of Anger
1972
as Jessie Fitzgerald
Valley of the Dolls
1967
as Helen Lawson
The Honey Pot
1967
as Mrs. Sheridan
Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage
1967
as Herself
Uncertain Verification
1965
as (archive footage)
Where Love Has Gone
1964
as Valerie Hayden Miller
Stolen Hours
1963
as Laura Pember
I Thank a Fool
1962
as Christine Allison
Back Street
1961
as Rae Smith
The Marriage-Go-Round
1961
as Content Delville
Ada
1961
as Ada Gillis
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
as Self - Actress 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
Thunder in the Sun
1959
as Gabrielle Dauphin
Woman Obsessed
1959
as Mary Sharron
I Want to Live!
1958
as Barbara Graham
Top Secret Affair
1957
as Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale
The Conqueror
1956
as Bortai
I'll Cry Tomorrow
1955
as Lillian Roth
Soldier of Fortune
1955
as Mrs. Jane Hoyt
Untamed
1955
as Katie O'Neill
MGM Parade
1955
MGM Parade
1955
as Self
Garden of Evil
1954
as Leah Fuller
Demetrius and the Gladiators
1954
as Messalina
The President's Lady
1953
as Rachel Donaldson
White Witch Doctor
1953
as Ellen Burton
The Oscars
1953
as Self
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952
as Helen Street
The Lusty Men
1952
as Louise Merritt
With a Song in My Heart
1952
as Jane Froman
David and Bathsheba
1951
as Bathsheba
Rawhide
1951
as Vinnie Holt
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
1951
as Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
1951
as Harriet Boyd
My Foolish Heart
1950
as Eloise Winters
House of Strangers
1949
as Irene Bennett
Tulsa
1949
as Cherokee Lansing
Tap Roots
1948
as Morna Dabney
The Saxon Charm
1948
as Janet Busch
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
They Won't Believe Me
1947
as Verna Carlson
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
1947
as Angie Evans
The Lost Moment
1947
as Tina Bordereau
Deadline at Dawn
1946
as June Goffe
Canyon Passage
1946
as Lucy Overmire
The Fighting Seabees
1944
as Constance Chesley
The Hairy Ape
1944
as Mildred Douglas
And Now Tomorrow
1944
as Janice Blair
Skirmish on the Home Front
1944
as Molly Miller
Jack London
1943
as Charmian Kittredge
Young and Willing
1943
as Kate Benson
Hit Parade of 1943
1943
as Jill Wright
I Married a Witch
1942
as Estelle Masterson
Reap the Wild Wind
1942
as Drusilla Alston
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942
as Genevieve in Priorities Skit
The Forest Rangers
1942
as Tana 'Butch' Mason
A Letter From Bataan
1942
as Mrs. Mary Lewis
Among the Living
1941
as Millie Pickens
Adam Had Four Sons
1941
as Hester Stoddard
Sis Hopkins
1941
as Carol Hopkins
Beau Geste
1939
as Isobel Rivers
$1,000 a Touchdown
1939
as Betty McGlen
Our Leading Citizen
1939
as Judith Schofield
Hollywood Hotel
1938
as Starlet at Table (uncredited)
Girls on Probation
1938
as Gloria Adams
The Sisters
1938
as Telephone operator
Comet Over Broadway
1938
as Amateur Actress (uncredited)
Campus Cinderella
1938
as Co-Ed