With seven years ago Susan Hayward was seriously injured in a car accident and spent months in plaster and later had to learn to walk again on crutches. Spent their leisure Edythe Marrenner especially in the cinema and dreamed of a film career.

She began her professional career after the completion of high school as a model for newspaper advertisements and mail-order catalogs. In a Hutmodenschau an employee of film producer David O. was Attention Selznick on them. Selznick invited Edythe Marrenner then to screen test for the role of "Scarlett O'Hara" in the planned film version of Gone With the Wind (Gone With the Wind) after Hollywood. Although they outwardly the character of Scarlett O'Hara drew near, she received the coveted role because of lack of experience did not, however, her first movie contract. In keeping with the name of the revered actor of his Hayward Selznick gave her the stage name Susan Hayward.

One of her first roles played Susan Hayward 1938 on the side of Ronald Reagan in the drama Girls on Probation ( "Girls on Probation"), she played a supporting role in the arrogant and aristocratic Gloria Adams, who accused another woman, she stole a dress have. A year later she was seen at the side of Gary Cooper and Ray Milland in the classic adventure by William A. Wellman Beau Geste (Beau Geste) to.

In 1942, she was known game with a supporting role in the adventure film Reap the Wind ( "Pirates of the Caribbean Sea") at the side of Ray Milland, John Wayne and Paulette Goddard, she embodied the role of Drusilla Alston, who falls into a sympathetic pirates , hiding in a basket on board a vessel to be attacked by pirates, however, before declining. It was the first time, who died of Susan Hayward in a movie. Then she turned the adventure film The Forest Rangers ( "Red Skies of Montana") with Fred MacMurray and Paulette Goddard, and the comedy I Married a Witch ( "I Married a Witch"), with Fredric March and Veronica Lake.

Susan Hayward was a star until 1947, however, by the role of an alcoholic Angie Evans in the drama Smash Up - The Story of a Woman, for which she was nominated for the first time for the Oscar. In the same year she starred alongside Robert Cummings, the lead role in The Lost Moment ( "Letters from the Beyond"), an adaptation of a short story by Henry James. In this romantic horror film, whose action in the 19th Century in Venice plays, embodied Susan Hayward Tina Borderau who is possessed by the spirit of a dead man. In 1949, they turned with Edward G. Robinson House of Strangers ( "House of Strangers"), a drama from the world of Italians living in America.

In the 1950s-years Susan Hayward and directed two films with Gregory Peck, for one 1951 David and Bathsheba ( "David and Bathsheba"), the filming of an episode from the Bible, with Gregory Peck as King David and Susan Hayward as Bathsheba, in which love with King David, although she is the wife of his commander, the other 1952 The Snows of Kilimanjaro ( "Snows of Kilimanjaro"), the film based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway, with Gregory Peck as a writer Harry Street, on a safari to the sense of his life looking for.

By Robert Mitchum Susan Hayward turned in the same year The Lusty Men ( "Arena of the Cowboys"), a drama from the world of rodeo rider and 1953 adventure film The White Witch Doctor ( "White Women in the Congo"). In The President's Lady ( "companion of his life"), a film about the marriage of the late U.S. President Andrew Jackson with a divorced woman, she played the divorced Rachel Donelson, while embodied Charlton Heston Andrew Jackson.

With Clark Gable turned it in 1955 adventure film Soldier of Fortune ( "Soldier of Fortune"), with Gary Cooper and Richard Widmark the Western Garden of Evil ( "The Evil Garden") and Kirk Douglas the comedy Top Secret Affair. In the historical adventure film The Conqueror ( "The Conqueror"), she was seen at the side of John Wayne too. John Wayne starred in The Conqueror one of his most unusual roles, the Mongol generals, Temujin, who was later known as Genghis Khan. In the epic Demetrius and the Gladiators ( "The Gladiators"), Susan Hayward embodied the Roman Messalina, who love to convert to Christianity Gladiator Demetrius. Demetrius was played by Victor Mature.

1956 Susan Hayward won the Actor Award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival and her second Oscar nomination for the presentation of the singer / actress Lillian Roth, temporarily forfeit the alcohol, I'll Cry Tomorrow ( "Tomorrow'll cry, I"), an adaptation of homonymous autobiography by Lillian Roth. 1958 Susan Hayward finally succeeded in winning the coveted Oscar, and indeed for the forceful presentation of the prostitute Barbara Graham, executed in the gas chamber, let in I Want to Live ( "I Want to Live").

The Western Thunder in the Sun "(" Thunder in the Sun ") of 1959 tells the story of a group of emigrants from the Basque Country, which run through the American West to California, the male lead played Jeff Chandler.

In the 1960s-years Susan Hayward turned to Dean Martin drama Ada ( "Woman with a Past") and James Mason, the comedy The Marriage-Go-Round ( ") Ehekarussell. In the drama Where Love has Gone "(" Where the heart is "), she was seen at the side of Bette Davis too. Susan Hayward embodied the unhappily married Valerie Hayden, played by her mother, Bette Davis, bullied and driven to death.

1968 Susan Hayward was the only time on a theater stage, she played the title role in the musical Mame. In 1972, she finally played one of her last roles in the Western The Revengers ( "The Avengers") on the side of William Holden and Ernest Borgnine.

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