Susan Hayward

@Film & Theater Personalities, Family and Childhood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Susan Hayward was an American actress who started as a fashion model and then moved to Hollywood to act in films Cancer Celebrities American Film & Theater Personalities Actresses Susan Hayward was an American actress who started as a fashion model and then moved to Hollywood to act in films. She came from a poor family living in a poor neighborhood and had to wear the same clothes for weeks and even months. She had to sell discarded junk for food consisting mainly of day-old bread sold at a fraction of its cost. She decided that getting into the movies was the only way to get out of the awful situation. 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. After trying for 20 years she was able to win nominations for the ‘Oscar Award for Best Actress’ four times and ultimately the prize in 1958. After winning the Oscar it seemed that she had achieved what she had set out to do when she stopped making too many films after that.

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Birthday: June 30, 1917 Died on: March 14, 1975 Nationality: American Famous: Film & Theater Personalities, Actresses Spouses: Floyd Eaton Chalkley, Jess Barker Siblings: Florence, Walter Known as: Edythe Marrenner Information Detail Birthday June 30, 1917 Died on March 14, 1975 Nationality American Famous Film & Theater Personalities, Actresses Spouses Floyd Eaton Chalkley, Jess Barker Siblings Florence, Walter Known as Edythe Marrenner Childrens Timothy and Gregory Birth Place Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Gender Female Father Walter Marrener Mother Ellen Pearson Sun Sign Cancer Born in Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Famous as Actress Died at Age 57

Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

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She married actor Jess Barker in 1944 and divorced him in 1954. She had had twin sons from this marriage - Timothy and Gregory. Unsplash Personal Life

Thereafter, she married Floyd Eaton Chalkley in 1957 and lived with him till his death in 1966. Unsplash Personal Life

She had an automobile accident at the age of 7 and was bedridden for months. Unsplash Personal Life

Susan Hayward was born Edythe Marrenner in a Brooklyn suburb in New York City, New York, United States on June 30, 1917. Her father, Walter Marrener, was a subway guard and Coney Island barker and her mother was a Swedish stenographer named Ellen Pearson. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

She had an older sister named Florence and an older brother named Walter. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

She attended the ‘Girls Commercial High School’ and instead of becoming a secretary decided to do modeling in New York. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

In 1937 David O. Selznick saw her on the cover of the ‘Saturday Evening Post’ and tested her for the role of ‘Scarlett O’Hara’ in ‘Gone with the Wind’ in Hollywood. She failed the test and Selznick advised her to forget Hollywood and go back home. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

She was determined to stay in Hollywood and met Benny Medford through a freak biking accident. Edythe convinced him of giving her a role and he signed her up as Susan Hayward. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

She made her Hollywood debut in 1937 with Holiday Hotel’ where she was given a small role after signing a contract with ‘Warner Bros’. Unsplash Career

She was able to get bit parts only in ‘Girls on Probation’ in 1938 and ‘Comet Over Broadway’ the same year. Unsplash Career

In 1939 she got her first important role in ‘Beau Geste’ where she played the role of a young innocent girl who loses her fiancé to the Foreign Legion. Unsplash Career

She started getting noticed and got an opportunity to compete with Ingrid Bergman as a scheming vixen in ‘Adam Had Four Sons’ in 1941. In the same year she played the character of a greedy mill worker involved with a psychotic killer in ‘Among the Living’. Unsplash Career

She was not satisfied with the number of roles she got and even challenged the head of the ‘Paramount Studios’, Y. Frank Freeman’ at an exhibition’s luncheon for giving her a break. Unsplash Career

Susan Hayward received four nominations for 'Academy Award for Best Actress' in 1947, 1949, 1852 and 1955. Unsplash Awards & Achievements

She received the ‘New York Film Critics Best Actress Award’ and finally the ‘Oscar Award’ for 'Best Actress' in 1958. Unsplash Awards & Achievements

Information	Detail
Birthday	June 30, 1917
Died on	March 14, 1975
Nationality	American
Famous	Film & Theater Personalities, Actresses
Spouses	Floyd Eaton Chalkley, Jess Barker
Siblings	Florence, Walter
Known as	Edythe Marrenner
Childrens	Timothy and Gregory
Birth Place	Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Gender	Female
Father	Walter Marrener
Mother	Ellen Pearson
Sun Sign	Cancer
Born in	Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Famous as	Actress
Died at Age	57

Susan Hayward

American

Jun 30, 1917

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Brooklyn, New York, U.S.