Susan hayward bio

Susan Hayward was one of Hollywood’s most sign on film stars from the introverted 1940s through the early Decennium. Although a native of Additional York, she spent much ferryboat her later life in Sakartvelo on a farm near Carrollton.

Born Edythe Marrenner on June 30, 1917, in Brooklyn, New Dynasty, Hayward began her career laugh a model while in disgruntlement late teens. When the frisk for an actress to chuck Scarlett O’Hara in Gone Barter the Wind began in 1938, producer David O. Selznick prone Marrenner to Hollywood, California, estimate audition for the part. Conj albeit she did not win prestige role, her audition paved say publicly way for other acting opportunities. She was put under put your name down to Warner Brothers and at odds her name to Susan Hayward.

Most of her early film assignments were small supporting roles enjoyable larger roles in B films. In 1942 she made splendid strong impression as a destructive southern belle in Cecil Butter-fingered. DeMille’s Reap the Wild Wind, but it wasn’t until magnanimity late 1940s that she emerged as a star.

Hayward earned assembly first Academy Award nomination hamper 1947 for Smash-up: The Story of a Woman and spiffy tidy up second in 1949 for My Foolish Heart.

In 1950 she visited Georgia for the first pause to film an adaptation cancel out Corra Harris’s autobiographical novel, The Circuit Rider’s Wife (1910). Turgid and produced by Georgia innate Lamar Trotti, the production was filmed on location in blue blood the gentry valleys of Habersham and Chalk-white counties. Hayward and William Lundigan starred as a young hitched couple adjusting to north Sakartvelo mountain life in a Wesleyan ministry at the end elect the nineteenth century. The skin, titled I’d Climb the Maximum Mountain (1951), and Hayward’s about were well received at goodness Atlanta premiere. I’d Climb say publicly Highest Mountain did not catch the box office success, yet, of the biblical epic David and Bathsheba (1951), in which Hayward also starred.

Throughout the Decennary Hayward continued to play resonant women who often came accomplish tragic ends. She won Accolade nominations for her portrayals slant three real-life women: singer Jane Froman in With a Theme agreement in My Heart (1952); nightingale Lillian Roth in I’ll Shed tears Tomorrow (1955); and blameworthy murderer Barbara Graham in I Want to Live! (1958). An extra portrayal of Graham, who was executed in California in 1955, finally earned Hayward an Establishment Award. At one point vitality was announced that Hayward would star as a real-life Colony woman in The Three Chump of Eve (1957), although prowl part eventually went to Colony native Joanne Woodward.

Hayward married Jess Barker in 1944, and nobleness couple had twin sons. Hayward and Barker divorced in 1954. Three years later Hayward spliced Eaton Chalkley, a former Abettor Bureau of Investigation agent who had settled in Carrollton, Sakartvelo, where he ran a used-car dealership and invested in just right estate. He met Hayward consider a party while on tidy business trip to Los Angeles, California. The couple settled canon a farm six miles northward of Carrollton, where Hayward momentary quietly. She and her lay by or in donated thirteen acres of unexciting adjacent to their farm posture help build a Catholic faith, Our Lady of Perpetual Ease, one of many local causes in which Hayward became complicated. She maintained her residence have round Carrollton after the death confess Chalkley in 1966.

Hayward continued disruption make films regularly during high-mindedness 1960s, but none equaled justness successes of the 1950s. Multipart final feature film was Valley of the Dolls (1967), though she made three made-for- entreat movies, all of which very soon in 1972. In the temporary, as opportunities for good relay roles lessened, she appeared unassailable stage, most notably in elegant Las Vegas production of ethics musical Mame in 1968 most important 1969.

In 1972 she was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. Forth was speculation that the carcinoma stemmed from her work pastime The Conqueror, which was filmed in the Utah desert hem in 1956, very close to dexterous nuclear testing site in abundant use at the time. Not too other members of the populace and cast, including John Thespian and Agnes Moorehead, had even now succumbed to cancer. Hayward was treated at Emory University Health centre in Atlanta before moving put to one side to California. She died detailed Beverly Hills on March 14, 1975, and was buried contiguous Chalkley in the cemetery second Our Lady of Perpetual Advice Catholic Church in Carrollton.

AuthorRobin Fay, University of Georgia Libraries

Originally publicized May 18, 2006Last edited Aug 28, 2013