Susan Hayward

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BIRTHDAY

June 30, 1918

Brooklyn, New York, United States

DIED

March 14, 1975

RECENT CREDITS

Star Spangled Rhythm (FILM) Jan. 1, 2001

Valley of the Dolls (FILM) Dec. 15, 1967

The Honey Pot (FILM) May. 22, 1967

Where Love Has Gone (FILM) Nov. 2, 1964

Stolen Hours (FILM) Oct. 1, 1963

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BIOGRAPHY

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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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Weren't They Tragic?

Jan. 29, 2000

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 28, 2000 - Jacqueline Susann was the queen of flashy trash -- the first literary pop star of the modern p.r. age. And Hollywood is putting her in the spotlight today with the opening of "Isn't She Great," a Susann biopic starring Bette Midler. It's a comic look at the woman behind "Valley of the Dolls" -- the once-shocking novel filled with every tawd...

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