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Susan Hayward

 

 

 

Susan Hayward (Jun. 30, 1917 – Mar. 14, 1975) was an American actress.

Born Edythe Marrenner in Brooklyn, New York of Irish and Scandinavian

extraction, she began her career as a photographer's model.

 

 

 

She was a school friend of the actor and fellow Brooklynite, Jeff Chandler.

She went to Hollywood in 1937, 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, Hayward landed a few bit parts until

she eventually landed the female lead in Beau Geste (1939) opposite

Gary Cooper which made her a superstar.

During the war years, she played leading lady to John Wayne twice

in Reap the Wild Wind and The Fighting Seabees.

Post-war, she established herself as one of Hollywood's most popular

leading ladies in films such as Tap Roots, My Foolish Heart, David and

Bathsheba, and With a Song in My Heart.

 

 

 

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 as Best Actress.

 

 

 

She appeared in a Las Vegas production of Mame for which she initially

received good reviews for her charming performance, but for which role

she was vocally unprepared, and she blamed herself for not having wanted

to spend the money on voice lessons that might have allowed her to keep

the role.

Loretta Swit played "Agnes Gooch" in the same production.

After Hayward was forced to withdraw from the production, she was

replaced by singer/actress Celeste Holm who had something of a reputation

for being "difficult", so Hayward warned her that if she (Holm) mistreated

the "great" company she (Holm) was now joining, then she (Hayward) would

"kick her ass back to Toledo", from whence Holm did not even come.

 

 

 

Hayward is also remembered for appearing (even though she was dying)

at the 1974 Oscar telecast to present the award for Best Actress.

With Charlton Heston gallantly supporting her, and having been given

massive doses of dopamine, she managed to get through it, but sadly

admitted: "That's the last time I do that".

 

 

 

She met Katharine Hepburn for the first time at the telecast (the only one

ever attended by Hepburn, and only then because she was to present an

award to a friend, not because she was nominated for anything, which she

wasn't that year anyway) and Hepburn served as a kind of booster urging

Hayward to fight, although she (Hayward) was in her last year of life.

Hepburn would also end up caring for such fellow actors as Vivien Leigh,

who blew smoke in Hepburn's face when Hepburn urged her not to smoke,

and whom Hepburn accompanied to electro-shock therapy treatments in

London, England not long before Leigh's death, and, of course, her long-time

friend and lover, Spencer Tracy, with whom she appeared in the movie

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner shortly before his death, but whose funeral

she could not attend.

 

 

 

The pneumonia-related complications of the brain cancer, which took

her life at the age of 57, is a theory thought by some to be from her work

in The Conqueror, filmed about 100 miles downwind of certain active Utah

nuclear-weapon test sites, and in sets dressed with truckloads of dirt from

the area, due to the fact that the film's director (Dick Powell) and many

others of the cast and crew on the set of the film (including John Wayne,

Agnes Moorehead, Lee Van Cleef, Pedro Armendáriz, Thomas Gomez, Dick

Powell and John Hoyt) died of cancer as well.

It is claimed the story is apocryphal, but it has gained traction due to the

large number of cast and crew who came to suffer from the disease.

[From : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Hayward ]

 

 

 

 

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