Susan Hayward
Birthday: 30 June 1917, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Birth Name: Edythe Marrenner
Height: 161 cm
Susan Hayward was born Edythe Marrener in Brooklyn, New York, on June 30, 1917. Her father was a transportation worker, and Susan lived a fairly comfortable life as a child, but the precocious little ...Show More
You aim at all the things you have been told that stardom means--the rich life, the applause, the pa Show more
You aim at all the things you have been told that stardom means--the rich life, the applause, the parties cluttered with celebrities. Then you find that you have it all. And it is nothing, really nothing. It is like a drug that lasts just a few hours, a sleeping pill. When it wears off, you have to live without its help. Hide
My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug Show more
My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax. Hide
I never thought of myself as a movie star. I'm just a working girl. A working girl who worked her wa Show more
I never thought of myself as a movie star. I'm just a working girl. A working girl who worked her way to the top--and never fell off. Hide
[To Darryl Zanuck's request that she attend the Academy Awards ceremony, 1952] I attended twice and Show more
[To Darryl Zanuck's request that she attend the Academy Awards ceremony, 1952] I attended twice and I lost twice and I had to explain to some of those vultures who had been dying for me to lose how 'there'll always be a next day'. Well, I'm not going to make a TV spectacle of myself in front of a few million viewers and that's that! Hide
When you're dead, you're dead. No one is going to remember me when I'm dead. Oh, maybe a few friends Show more
When you're dead, you're dead. No one is going to remember me when I'm dead. Oh, maybe a few friends will remember me affectionately. Being remembered isn't the most important thing, anyhow. It's what you do when you are here that's important. Hide
I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. T Show more
I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman. Hide
Susan Hayward's FILMOGRAPHY
as Actor (22)
Susan Hayward'S roles
Lucy Overmire
Estelle Masterson