Susan Hayward

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Susan Hayward (born Edythe Marrenner; born June 30, 1917 – March 14, 1975) was an American actress and model.

She was best known for roles portraying women based on true stories. Hayward, a fashion photographer, travelled to Hollywood in 1937 to audition for the role of Scarlett O'Hara.

She landed a film job and appeared in several small supporting roles over the next few years. The quality of her film roles had risen by the late 1940s, and she received accolades for her role as an alcoholic in Smash-Up, The Story of a Woman (1947).

With a Song in My Heart (1949), and I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955), she maintained her popularity through the 1950s.

Barbara Graham, a death row prisoner, has finally been recognized for her role in I Want to Live! (1958). Although Hayward's second marriage and subsequent move to Georgia, her film appearances became rare, though she continued acting in film and television until 1972.

She died of brain cancer in 1975.

Early life

Edythe Marrenner was born in Brooklyn, New York City, on June 30, 1917, the youngest of three children to Ellen (née Pearson, 1888-1938) and Walter Marrenner (1879-1938). Her mother was of Swedish descent. Florence was her older sister and Walter, Jr., her older brother. Marrenner was struck by a car in 1924, breaking her hip and leg bones, putting her in a partial body cast with the resulting bone setting, giving her a distinctive hip swivel later in life.

Hayward attended Public School 181 and graduated from the Girls' Commercial High School in June 1935 (later renamed Prospect Heights High School). Hayward attended the school in the mid-1930s, but she only remembered swimming at the beach in Flatbush, Brooklyn, during the hot summers. She performed in several school plays and was named "Most Dramatic" by her class.

Personal life

Hayward helped the war effort by volunteering at the Hollywood Canteen, where she first saw her first husband, actor Jess Barker, at WW. They married on July 23, 1944, and fraternal twin sons Gregory and Timothy were born on February 19, 1945. On August 17, 1954, a judge granted an interlocutory divorce decree. Hayward stayed in the United States rather than attending the Soldier of Fortune film shoot in Hong Kong. Clark Gable, a co-star, shot her scenes on a sound stage in Hollywood. With the indoor photographs, a few short, far-away scenes of Gable and a Hayward double strolling near Hong Kong's landmarks were mixed. A suicide attempt was attempted by the onset of divorce trials and overwork in April 1955.

Hayward married Floyd Eaton Chalkley, a wealthy Georgia rancher and businessman who had served as a federal agent, in 1957. The marriage was a happy one. They lived on a farm near Carrollton, Georgia, and owned a house across the state line in Cleburne County, just outside Heflin, Alabama. In the late 1950s, she became a well-known figure in the area. Fr. Daniel J. McGuire, a baptized Catholic, was baptized her and her husband in December 1964. SS. The Roman Catholic Church of Peter and Paul in Pittsburgh's East Liberty neighborhood kept a promise made in China to McGuire that if she ever converted, he would be the one to baptize her. Chalkley died on January 9, 1966. Hayward went into mourning and did not do much acting for many years. She moved to Florida because she preferred not to live in her Georgia home without her husband.

Hayward had been an astrology scholar long before her Catholic baptism. She particularly relied on Carroll Righter's advice, as she found out that the best time to sign a film contract was precisely 2:47 a.m., she'd schedule an alarm for 2:45 a.m. so she'd know she'd be following his instructions.

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Career

Hayward began her modeling career in 1937 and then travelled to Hollywood to try out for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind. Despite the fact that Hayward did not make it to the role, she was used for other actors' screen tests by David Selznick and was offered a Warner Bros.

When Marrenner started her six-month deal with Warner's, she changed his name to Susan Hayward. Hayward appeared in Hollywood (1937), The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) (her part was cut out), and The Sisters (1938), as well as a a short film Campus Cinderella (1938).

Hayward's first significant role was with Ronald Reagan in Girls on Probation (1938), where she ranked as a top 10th in billing. She was still in Comet Over Broadway (1938), but she returned to unbilled and began shooting pinup "cheesecake" publicity photographs, something she and most actresses loove, but she had no choice under her new employment. Hayward's employment at Warner Bros. came to an end, she moved to Paramount Studios.

Paramount Studios in 1939-1939 negotiated her to a $250/w week basis. Hayward made her first appearance in the role of Isobel (1939), opposite Gary Cooper and Ray Milland. During the International Legion's desert service, she retained her tiny, but poignant love of youth, which she relinquished.

Hayward took the second lead in Our Leading Citizen (1939) with Bob Burns, then assisting Joe E. Brown in $1000 a Touchdown (1939).

Hayward moved to Columbia for a supporting role with Ingrid Bergman in Adam Had Four Sons (1941), then to Republic Pictures for Sis Hopkins (1941) with Judy Canova and Bob Crosby. She appeared in Among the Living (1941), a Paramount Filmmaker who had the lead in a "B" film.

Cecil B. Neill De Mille played a good supporting role in Reap the Wind (1942), to costar with Milland, John Wayne, and Paulette Goddard. She was in the short A Letter from Bataan (1942), and she helped Goddard and Fred MacMurray in The Forest Rangers (1942).

Hayward appeared in I Married a Witch (1942) with Fredric March and Veronica Lake as Wallace Wooly's fiancé, before Lake's witch returned from a Puritanical stake 300 years ago. The film inspired the 1960s TV series Bewitched and was based on Thorne Smith's unfinished book. It was made for Paraguay, but it was sold to United Artists. She was the next in She was the first female participant in Paraphrasedoutput's all-star musical study Star Spangled Rhythm (1943), which also included non-musical contract players.

Hayward appeared in Young and Willing (1943), a Paramount film released by the University of England, and he appeared alongside William Holden in Young and Willing (1943). She appeared in the Republic's Hit Parade of 1943 (1943), with her singing voice dubbed by Jeanne Darrell.

Sam Bronston borrowed her from Jack London (1943) at the University of Aston. In The Battle Seabees (1944), the company's most expensive film in history, she was Wayne's love interest in The Fighting Seabees (1944).

She appeared in the UA's film adaptation of The Hairy Ape (1944). Loretta Young's sister appeared in And Now Tomorrow (1944) and was back to Paraphrasedoutput. She then left the studio.

Hayward was the first in RKO's Deadline at Dawn (1946), a Clifford Odets-written Noir film, which was Harold Clurman's first film as director.

Hayward's career took off when producer Walter Wanger agreed to a seven-year deal for $100,000 a year. Canyon Passage (1946) was her first film.

In 1947, she became the first of five Academy Award nominees for her role as an alcoholic nightclub singer based on Dixie Lee in Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman, Wanger's second film. Though critics didn't like it, it was still popular with viewers and a box office success, with many people and a box office boom, and it was introduced as a celebrity.

She was used by RKO in They Won't Believe Me (1947). She then worked with Wanger on The Lost Moment (1948) and Tap Roots (1948). Both films lost money, but the latter was very popular.

She did Tulsa (1949) for Wanger while Universal Hayward was in The Saxon Charm (1948) for her. Both films were commercial flops.

Hayward spent more than 20 years in film to make House of Strangers (1949) for director Joseph Mankiewicz (1949), which was his first encounter with the studio.

Sam Goldwyn borrowed her for My Foolish Heart (1949), which earned her an Oscar nomination, and then she returned to Fox for I'd Climb the Highest Peak (1951), which was a hit.

She stayed at that studio to make the western Rawhide (1951) with Tyrone Power (1951) and the romantic drama I Can Get It for You (1951).

Hayward appeared in three major films over the years: David and Bathsheba (1951), Gregory Peck's most popular film of the year; with a Song in My Heart (1952), a biopic of Jane Froman; and The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952), starring Peck and Ava Gardner.

RKO borrowed Hayward for The Lusty Men (1952) with Robert Mitchum, then she returned to Fox for The President's Lady (1953), alongside Rachel Jackson and Aaron Walter; The Garden of Evil (1954) with Gary Cooper and Richard Widmark; Untamed (1955) with Tyrone Power. Hayward appeared in Soldier of Fortune (1955), a CinemaScope film that was a box office miss.

MGM recruited Hayward to play Lillian Roth, the alcoholic showgirl/actress based on Roth's best-selling autobiography of the same name, for which she received a Cannes award. It was a great financial success.

Even though Hayward never became well-known as a singer — she looped her own singing — she did appear in many films as a singer. However, in I'll Cry Tomorrow, who's vocals were once attributed to professional ghost singer Marni Nixon, the vocals were largely credited to professional ghost singer Marni Nixon—Hayward subbed the vocals and appears on the soundtrack. Hayward appeared in the musical biography of singer Jane Froman in the 1952 film With a Song in My Heart, a nomination that received the Golden Globe for Best Actress Actress In A Leading Role. Musical Or Comedian. As Hayward acted out the songs, Jane Froman's voice was recorded and used for the film.

She was chosen by Howard Hughes to play Bortai in the historical epic The Conqueror as John Wayne's leading lady in 1956. It was not prejudiced, but it was a commercial success. Top Secret Affair (1956), she co-starred in a comedy with Kirk Douglas (1956), which fell apart.

I Want to Live, Hayward's last film with Wanger. Barbara Graham, a 1958-1954 actress who appeared in death row, was a critical and commercial actress who received the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal. Many film critics have referred to her appearance in I Want To Live as the best Hollywood acting performance ever, of any actor. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times said she was "so vivid and so shattering" during her appearance. Anybody who could withstand this ordeal without shivering and shuddering is made of stone." Hayward's net income was 37 percent of the film's.

Hayward produced Thunder in the Sun (1959), with Jeff Chandler, a poor wagon train photograph of French Basque pioneers, who was a modest success financially, and then Fox's Woman Obsessed (1959).

Hayward played in 1961 as a shrewd working girl who becomes the wife of the state's next governor (Dean Martin) and then assumes the office by herself in Ada. She appeared Rae Smith in Ross Hunter's lavish remake of Back Street, which also starred John Gavin and Vera Miles. Neither film was well-received; nor was I Thank a Fool (1962) at MGM, Stolen Hours (1963), and Where Love Has Gone (1964), which co-starred Bette Davis.

In The Honey Pot (1967), Hayward was reunited with Joseph Mankiewicz. In the film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls (1967), which attracted poor reviews but raised money at the box office, then she replaced Judy Garland as Helen Lawson.

She received raves for her appearance in Caesars Palace in the Las Vegas production of Mame, which opened in December 1968. Celeste Holm replaced her in March 1969 after her voice died out and she had to leave the company.

She continued to perform into the early 1970s, when she first learned of brain cancer.

She appeared in Heat of Anger (1972) and William Holden's western film The Revengers (1972).

Dr. Maggie Cole's last film role was as Dr. Maggie Cole in the 1972 made-for-TV film Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole. "Maggie Cole," which was supposed to be the pilot episode for a television series, was never produced due to Hayward's declining health. Despite being ill, Charlton Heston's support enabled her to present the award at the Academy Awards telecast in 1974.

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