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Susan Hayward was born Edythe Marrenner on June 30, 1917 in Brooklyn, the youngest of three children born to Ellen and Walter Marrenner. Her paternal grandmother was an actress, Kate Harrigan, from County Cork, Ireland. Her mother was of Swedish descent. She had an older sister, Florence (born May 1910), and an older brother, Walter, Jr. (born December 1911). She was born on the same day, and in the same city, as entertainer Lena Horne.
Hayward was educated at Public School 181, and graduated from the Girls' Commercial High School (later renamed Prospect Heights High School). According to the Erasmus Hall High School alumni page, Hayward attended that school in the mid-1930s, so she possibly attended Erasmus Hall High School before transferring to Girls' Commercial High School. During her high school years, she acted in various school plays and was named "Most Dramatic" by her class. She graduated in June 1935.
Following her graduation from Girls’ Commercial High School, she began working as a photographer’s model. After filmmaker George Cukor saw a colour photo of her in the Saturday Evening Post, she was invited to audition for the part of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939). Her lack of acting experience came through in her screen test, and she was not given the part. Nonetheless, she acquired an agent—as well as a new name, Susan Hayward—and in 1937 she embarked on a series of uncredited bit parts in movies. Her first credited role was in Girls on Probation (1938), starring Ronald Reagan, although her more substantial part in Beau Geste (1939) is frequently described as her feature film debut. Hayward went on to appear in such movies as Adam Had Four Sons (1941); Cecil B. DeMille’s Reap the Wild Wind (1942); The Fighting Seabees (1944), in which she costarred with John Wayne; and Deadline at Dawn (1946). Hayward’s portrayal of a nightclub singer who gives up her career for her husband and falls into alcoholism in Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947) earned her an Academy Award nomination for best actress. She was nominated again for her leading role in the melodrama My Foolish Heart (1949).
In 1951 Hayward played the wife of an itinerant preacher in I’d Climb the Highest Mountain, a stagecoach passenger under attack in the western Rawhide, an ambitious fashion designer in I Can Get It for You Wholesale, and a biblical queen in David and Bathsheba. In With a Song in My Heart (1952), she portrayed the real-life singer Jane Froman, who battled back from severe injuries sustained in an airplane crash at the height of her career; Hayward received a third Oscar nomination for her performance. She costarred with a series of prominent leading men, including Robert Mitchum (The Lusty Men (1952) and White Witch Doctor (1953)), Charlton Heston (The President’s Lady (1953)), Victor Mature (Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)), Gary Cooper (Garden of Evil [1954]), Tyrone Power (Untamed (1955)), and Clark Gable (Soldier of Fortune (1955)).
Hayward played the troubled 1930s Broadway star Lillian Roth in I’ll Cry Tomorrow (1955), earning best-actress honours at the Cannes film festival and her fourth nomination for an Academy Award. In I Want to Live! (1958), a movie based on real events, Hayward portrayed Barbara Graham, a prostitute who was convicted (possibly wrongly) with two companions of having murdered a wealthy widow in 1953 and was executed in the gas chamber. For her moving performance, Hayward finally received an Oscar.
Hayward’s output decreased markedly following her triumph. Her later films included Thunder in the Sun (1959), The Marriage-Go-Round (1961), Where Love Has Gone (1964), and Valley of the Dolls (1967). Her last appearance was in the title role of the television movie Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole (1972). Hayward’s death from cancer was attributed by several writers to her having acted in the 1956 film The Conqueror, which was filmed close to the atomic testing range at Yucca Flat, Nevada; 91 members of that cast and crew later got cancer, including costar John Wayne and director Dick Powell.
Susan Hayward went down in history as the model image of a woman fighting for survival against all odds. She received the ‘New York Film Critics Best Actress Award’ and finally the ‘Oscar Award’ for 'Best Actress' in 1958.
Susan Hayward has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6251 Hollywood Boulevard.
In December 1964, she and her husband were baptized Catholic by Father McGuire at SS Peter and Paul's Roman Catholic Church on Larimer Avenue, in the East Liberty section of Pittsburgh.
Hayward was a lifelong registered Republican, who endorsed Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 and appeared at the 1953 Republican Rally.
Before her Catholic baptism, Hayward was a proponent of astrology. She particularly relied on the advice of Carroll Righter, who called himself "the Gregarious Aquarius" and the self-proclaimed "Astrologer to the Stars", who informed her that the optimum time to sign a film contract was exactly 2:47 am, causing her to set her alarm for 2:45 so she could be sure to obey his instructions.
Quotations:
"I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman."
"I never thought of myself as a movie star. I'm just a working girl. A working girl who worked her way to the top - and never fell off."
"My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax."
"When you're dead, you're dead. No one is going to remember me when I'm dead. Oh maybe a few friends will remember me affectionately. Being remembered isn't the most important thing anyhow. It's what you do when you are here that's important."
"You aim at all the things you have been told that stardom means - the rich life, the applause, the parties cluttered with celebrities. Then you find that you have it all. And it is nothing, really nothing. It is like a drug that lasts just a few hours, a sleeping pill. When it wears off, you have to live without its help."
"I'm not going to say I'm sold on a five-day fair, and I'm not sure we can do it."
"It's an experiment year for us too. We had a young rock band last night, more of a kid's or college age and the night before that we had Loggins and Messina , and it was a little older group. So this is a trial for us. We'll see if people enjoy it, if they come, if they don't we won't do it again."
"I'm tickled to death."
"I'll cry tomorrow."
"This is an opportunity for the community of South Dakota to take part in planning the future of the State Fair and this beautiful property. I truly hope to see people from across the state take part in this open meeting."
"I don't know if that's entertainment or people with gas issues or what it would be, but I'm not concerned about it at this point."
"Here we have this beautiful property. It is a state property. We should be very, very proud of it, and we should be taking care of it."
"We had a very successful fair. We were thrilled."
"I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor."
Her determination to become a movie star helped her fight her way to reach the top. She was a fighter from the start, fighting her way to the top, fighting to remain at the top during the turbulent 1950s and fighting with the brain cancer for a long time that ultimately took her life. She became the model image of a woman fighting for survival against all odds.
Physical Characteristics: She furthered the stereotype of the "fiery redhead".
Hayward was married to actor Jess Barker for 10 years and they had two children, fraternal twin sons named Gregory and Timothy, born February 19, 1945. The marriage was described in Hollywood gossip columns as turbulent. They divorced in 1954. Hayward attempted suicide after the divorce. During the contentious divorce proceedings, Hayward stayed in the United States rather than join the Hong Kong location shooting for the film Soldier of Fortune. She shot her scenes with co-star Clark Gable indoors in Hollywood. A few brief, distant scenes of Gable and a Hayward double walking near landmarks in Hong Kong were combined with the indoor shots.
In 1957, Hayward married Floyd Eaton Chalkley, commonly known as Eaton Chalkley. He was a Georgia rancher and businessman who had formerly worked as a federal agent. Though he was an unusual husband for a Hollywood movie star, the marriage was a happy one. She lived with him on a farm near Carrollton, Georgia. The couple also owned property across the state line in Cleburne County, just outside Heflin, Alabama. She became a popular figure in an area that in the 1950s was off the beaten path for most celebrities.
Susan had met McGuire while in China and promised him 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 little acting for several years, and took up residence in Florida, because she preferred not to live in her Georgia home without her husband.
(June 4, 1912 – August 8, 2000)
He was an American film actor of the 1930s and 1940s. He is probably most famous for being the first husband of actress Susan Hayward.
(1909–1966)
(b. February 19, 1945)
(b. February 19, 1945)
(February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960)
He was an American film actor and military officer, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood" or just simply as "The King".
