Susan Hayward

Susan Hayward

Public attention spiked: 20,194 Wikipedia readers in one day, 21.8× the usual 927, with 0 article edits.

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Susan Hayward

Public attention spiked: 4,452 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.8× the usual 927, with 0 article edits.

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Susan Hayward

Public attention spiked: 4,014 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.3× the usual 927, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: Interceptor: Reverting unsourced content added by ~2026-40222-98

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Susan Hayward

Out of a cast and crew totaling 220 people, 91 of them developed some form of cancer, and 46 had died of the disease

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Suffered a seizure in her Beverly Hills home and died at the age of 57

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Died 1975-03-14.

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To present the Best Actress award despite being very ill

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Was baptized Catholic by Father Daniel J

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Hayward starred as a shrewd working girl who becomes the wife of the state's next governor (Dean Martin) and ultimately takes over the office herself in Ada

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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for I Want to Live! (1959).

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Hayward married Floyd Eaton Chalkley, commonly known as Eaton Chalkley, a successful Georgia rancher and businessman who had worked as a federal agent

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Was cast by Howard Hughes to play Bortai in the historical epic The Conqueror, as John Wayne's leading lady

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Received the first of five Academy Award nominations for her role as an alcoholic nightclub singer based on Dixie Lee in Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman, her second film for Wanger

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And in early 1945 fraternal twin sons were born

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Paramount Studios signed her to a $250 per week contract

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To audition for the role of Scarlett O'Hara

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To try out for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind

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Marrener was hit by a car, suffering a fractured hip and broken legs that put her in a partial body cast with the resulting bone setting leaving her with a distinctive hip swivel later in life

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In the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, the youngest of three children to Ellen (née Pearson) and Walter Marrener

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Born 1917-06-30.

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