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Susan Hayward

Highest Rated: 100% The Lusty Men (1952)

Lowest Rated: 32% 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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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 83% The Lusty Men
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100% 65% Canyon Passage
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100% 72% The Fighting Seabees
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96% 71% I Married a Witch
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94% 83% I Want to Live!
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92% 84% Beau Geste
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86% 52% Garden of Evil
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86% 75% I'll Cry Tomorrow
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46% Among the Living
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80% 57% Reap the Wild Wind
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
The Revengers 33% 1972 Elizabeth Reilly Actor Heat of Anger 1972 Jessie Fitzgerald Actor Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole 1972 Dr. Maggie Cole Actor The Honey Pot 57% 61% 1967 Mrs. Lone Star Crockett Sheridan Actor Valley of the Dolls 32% 58% 1967 Helen Lawson Actor Where Love Has Gone 32% 1964 Valerie Hayden Miller Actor Stolen Hours 1963 Laura Pember Actor I Thank a Fool 1962 Christine Allison Actor Ada 50% 1961 Ada Gillis Actor Back Street 69% 1961 Rae Smith Actor The Marriage-Go-Round 1960 Content Delville Actor Thunder in the Sun 1959 Gabrielle Dauphin Actor Woman Obsessed 25% 1959 Mary Sharron Actor I Want to Live! 94% 83% 1958 Barbara Graham Actor Top Secret Affair 57% 1957 Dorothy "Dottie" Peale Actor The Conqueror 10% 1956 Bortai Actor Untamed 17% 1955 Katie O'Neill Kildare Actor I'll Cry Tomorrow 86% 75% 1955 Lillian Roth Actor Soldier of Fortune 61% 1955 Mrs. Jane Hoyt Actor Garden of Evil 86% 52% 1954 Leah Fuller Actor Demetrius and the Gladiators 75% 65% 1954 Messalina Actor The President's Lady 60% 54% 1953 Rachel Donaldson Actor White Witch Doctor 12% 1953 Ellen Burton Actor The Lusty Men 100% 83% 1952 Louise Merritt Actor With a Song in My Heart 57% 62% 1952 Jane Froman Actor
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