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Susan Hayward (June 30, 1917 – March 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
(person)|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.

The brain cancer which took her life at the age of
57 is traced by many to her work in The Conqueror
(movie)|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 and John
Hoyt) died of cancer as well. The story may be
apocryphal, but it has gained traction. 

==Academy Awards and Nominations==
*1959 - Won Academy Award for Best Actress|Best
Actress in a Leading Role - I Want to Live!
*1956 - Nominated Academy Award for Best
Actress|Best Actress in a Leading Role - I'll Cry
Tomorrow
*1953 - Nominated Academy Award for Best
Actress|Best Actress in a Leading Role - With a
Song in My Heart
*1950 - Nominated Academy Award for Best
Actress|Best Actress in a Leading Role - My
Foolish Heart
*1948 - Nominated Academy Award for Best
Actress|Best Actress in a Leading Role - Smash-Up,
the Story of a Woman

Hayward has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
at 6251 Hollywood Blvd.


==Filmography==
*Hollywood Hotel (1937)
*The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) (scenes
deleted)
*Campus Cinderella (1938) (short subject)
*The Sisters (1938)
*Girls on Probation (1938)
*Comet Over Broadway (1938)
*Beau Geste (1939)
*Our Leading Citizen (1939)
*$1000 a Touchdown (1939)
*Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
*Sis Hopkins (1941)
*Among the Living (1941)
*Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
*A Letter from Bataan (1942) (short subject)
*The Forest Rangers (1942)
*I Married a Witch (1942)
*Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
*Young and Willing (1943)
*Hit Parade of 1943 (1943)
*Jack London (1943)
*The Fighting Seabees (1944)
*Skirmish on the Home Front (1944) (short subject)
*The Hairy Ape (1944)
*And Now Tomorrow (1944)
*Deadline at Dawn (1946)
*Canyon Passage (1946)
*Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947)
*They Won't Believe Me (1947)
*The Lost Moment (1947)
*Tap Roots (1948)
*The Saxon Charm (1948)
*Tulsa (1949)
*House of Strangers (1949)
*My Foolish Heart (1949)
*I'd Climb the Highest Mountain 

==External links==
*imdb name|id=0001333|name=Susan Hayward
*http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_016.html
Article about the radioactive film set (from The
Straight Dope)