Susan Hayward (born Edythe Marrenner, 1917 –1975) American actress. Her paternal grandmother was an actress, Kate Harrigan, from County Cork, Ireland Her mother was of Swedish descent.
After working as a fashion model, Hayward traveled to Hollywood in 1937. She secured a film contract and played several small supporting roles over the next few years.By the late 1940s, the quality of her film roles had improved, and she achieved recognition for her dramatic abilities with the first of five Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her performance as an alcoholic in Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947). Her career continued successfully through the 1950s and she received subsequent nominations for My Foolish Heart (1949), With a Song in My Heart (1952), and I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955). She finally won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of death row inmate Barbara Graham in I Want to Live! (1958).
After working as a fashion model, Hayward traveled to Hollywood in 1937. She secured a film contract and played several small supporting roles over the next few years.By the late 1940s, the quality of her film roles had improved, and she achieved recognition for her dramatic abilities with the first of five Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her performance as an alcoholic in Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947). Her career continued successfully through the 1950s and she received subsequent nominations for My Foolish Heart (1949), With a Song in My Heart (1952), and I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955). She finally won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of death row inmate Barbara Graham in I Want to Live! (1958).
- "After leaving school Susan decided to try modelling and the energetic 16-year-old redhead was soon one of the Thornton Agency's top model. [...] ... when George Cukor picked up a copy of the Saturday Evening Post that displayed a sweater-clad teenager wit knowing eyes and a wealth of red hair." https://books.google.it/
- “It was this mix of lineages that would eventually give Edythe her good looks and her trademark red tresses.” http://www.susanhayward.com/
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