Susan Hayward
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| Known for: |
I Want to Live!, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, I'll Cry Tomorrow |
| Birth name: |
Edythe Marrenner |
| Birthday: |
30 June 1918,
Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Height: |
5' 3½" (1.61 m) |
| Available Photos |
19 |
| Wallpapers |
1 |
Trivia
Was diagnosed with brain cancer, allegedly the result of being exposed to dangerous radioactive toxins on location in Utah while making
The Conqueror. All the leads
John Wayne,
Agnes Moorehead,
John Hoyt, Hayward and the director
Dick Powell died of cancer. The case is still a scandal.
Interred at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, Carrollton, Georgia, USA.
She portrayed an alcoholic in three films,
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman,
My Foolish Heart and
I'll Cry Tomorrow) and was nominated for an Oscar for each performance.
Her footprints at Grauman's Chinese Theatre are the only ones set in gold dust.
Her first marriage to actor
Jess Barker was a stormy one and ended with a bitter custody battle of her twin sons and a suicide attempt by Susan. Her second to rancher Eaton Chalkley was a long and happy one until he died suddenly of hepatitis nine years later. She left Hollywood for five years in deep mourning, returning in 1971.
Took over the ballsy role of stage star Helen Lawson in
Valley of the Dolls in 1967 after
Judy Garland was fired.
Was one of many starlets in 1939 who auditioned for the part of Scarlett O'Hara in
Gone with the Wind.
Measurements: 36 1/2-26-35 1/2 (as noted in "Hollywood Studio Magazine), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Replaced an ailing
Barbara Stanwyck in
Heat of Anger, which was to have been a pilot for a TV series to be called "Fitzgerald and Pride."
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