Profile
Susan Hayward
Actress
Female
Born
Jun 30, 1917
Hometown
Brooklyn, New York
Died
Mar 14, 1975
Death Place
Hollywood
Other Names
Marrenner, Edythe
Susan Hayward was an American actress. After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward traveled to Hollywood in 1937 when open auditions were held for the leading role in Gone with the Wind (1939). Although she was not selected, she secured a film… Read More
Romance
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Floyd Eaton ChalkleyMarried 1956 - 1966
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Enrique ParraDated
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Jorge GuinleDated
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1917
Birth
Born on June 30, 1917.
TWENTIES
After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward traveled to Hollywood in 1937 when open auditions were held for the leading role in Gone with the Wind (1939).
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1945
28 Years Old
Hayward was married to actor Jess Barker for 10 years and they had two children, fraternal twin sons, born February 19, 1945. The marriage was described in Hollywood gossip columns as turbulent. They divorced in 1954.
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THIRTIES
1947
30 Years Old
In 1947, she received the first of five Academy Award nominations for her role as an alcoholic nightclub singer in Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman.
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FORTIES
1957
40 Years Old
In 1957, Hayward married Eaton Chalkley, a Georgia rancher and businessman who had formerly worked as a federal agent.
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In 1961, Hayward starred as a working girl who becomes the wife of the state's next governor (Dean Martin) and ultimately takes over that office herself in Ada.
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1964
47 Years Old
In December 1964, she and her husband were baptized Catholic by Father McGuire at SS Peter and Paul's Roman Catholic Church on Larimar Avenue, in the East Liberty section of Pittsburgh.
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FIFTIES
1972
55 Years Old
Hayward married and lived in Georgia and following her Oscar-winning performance, her film appearances became infrequent, although she continued acting in film and television until 1972.
Hayward died at age 57 on March 14, 1975, of pneumonia-related complications of brain cancer, having survived considerably longer than doctors had predicted.
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