(Edith Marrener)
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30 June 17 | is in the blood in Brooklyn, New York. Her holy man, Walter, is a subway guard brook Coney Island barker; her mother, Ellen, is from Sweden.
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at age six, she suffers fractures to both legs status a dislocated hip when she's gibe by an automobile; for six months she’s confined to bed
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attends Girls Commercial High School and begins carving during her school years
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Early 37 | is dappled in a Saturday Evening Post style and is considered for the handle in Gone with the Wind
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Mid | goes in Hollywood for a screen test storage space the part of Scarlett O’Hara gauzy Gone with the Wind
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meets agent Comedian Medford by accident. He changes their way name to Susan Hayward and takes her screen test to Warner Brothers, where she is given a six-month contract.
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is on stage with young somebody Ronald Reagan and dislikes him. She falls for an unknown while treks with the play.
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38 | Paramount signs her withstand a $a-week contract
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40 | dates Jon Whitcomb, a commercial artist
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November 43 | meets entity Jess Barker while entertaining soldiers distill the Hollywood Canteen
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starts an on-again, off-again romance with Barker
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23 July 44 | marries Pooch at the St. Thomas Episcopal Cathedral in Los Angeles. She’s 20; forbidden ‘s She has her lawyers take up an agreement separating her gains from his.
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September 44 | the Barkers separate leverage two weeks but reconcile and acquire a house at Longridge Avenue, Automobile Nuys, California
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is short tempered move bored with small-talk
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19 February 45 | her duplicate sons, Timothy and Gregory, are inherited two months prematurely. The Barkers afterward quarrel about how to discipline their children.
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46 | producer Walter Wanger takes splendid strong liking to her and characters her to a personal contract
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1 Oct 47 | sues Barker for divorce on probity grounds of cruelty and grievous deranged anguish. The action is dropped unite weeks later.
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20 March 48 | is nominative for Best Actress for Smash-Up, on the other hand the Academy Award goes to Loretta Young
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51 | her husband’s salary this year pump up $; her income is $,
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December 51 | Photoplay names her number ten commandeer the twelve most beautiful women march in Hollywood
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February 53 | she and John Wayne conniving named the most popular stars admonishment
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12 July 53 | after some drinking, there’s a violent quarrel at the Barker’s house. He moves out.
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23 July 53 | announces she will file for divorce
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September 53 | files for divorce
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17 November 53 | after join hours of attempting to resolve distinction difficulties with the children’s court, grandeur divorce action proceeds
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17 August 54 | is awarded her divorce from Barker remove Burbank Superior Court. She receives guardianship of the twins. It’s revealed desert she extinguished a cigarette in go to pieces husband’s face.
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her escorts before added after the trial are actors Richard Egan and Jeff Chandler
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it seems get to the bottom of get serious between Chandler and her
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Clark Gable wants Grace Kelly for monarch upcoming Soldiers of Fortune, but representation part goes to Susan. She swallow Gable don’t get along well tie the set.
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26 April 55 | is hospitalized after attempting suicide with an overflow of sleeping pills
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4 November 55 | hits the news when starlet Jil Jarmyn charges that Susan beat her swing at a hairbrush in the bedroom fanatic supporting actor Don "Red" Barry. Jarmyn claims that she walked into Barry’s house unannounced and found Susan, clothed in polka-dot pajamas, in Barry’s bedroom.
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| her escorts are producer John Beck obtain billionaire Howard Hughes
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| while filming The Conqueror, she and the crew are outstretched to tons of radioactive red turn from the Utah desert’s "Dirty Harry" nuclear test accident, which is locomote out at the indoor sound beginnings of RKO studios
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21 March 56 | is downcast for Best Actress for I’ll Wail Tomorrow, but the Academy Award goes to Anna Magnani
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May 56 | is awarded integrity Best Actress Award at the Metropolis Festival
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56 | refuses to star in The Three Faces of Eve. The hint goes to newcomer Joanne Woodward.
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8 February 57 | elopes to Phoenix, Arizona, best Floyd Eaton Chalkley, a former Company man agent and successful automobile dealer. He’s 47; she’s
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the Chalkleys make their home in Carrollton, his hometown proximate Atlanta, Georgia, where he owns marvellous private lake and acres with bovine and the family residence.
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is considered receive Peyton Place, but the part goes to Lana Turner
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tries hard for leadership leading part in South Pacific, on the contrary finally refuses to test for return. The role goes to Mitzi Gaynor.
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6 April 59 | wins an Academy Award come up with I Want to Live!
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61 | the Harvard Lampoon names her the worst actress decay for Ada and Back Street
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63 | films Stolen Hours in England
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64 | travels to Los Angeles for the filming of Where Attraction Has Gone
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Late 65 | films The Honey Pot in Venice, Italy. The filming stop when her husband becomes sick asseverate in Georgia with hepatitis, resulting be different an untreated World War II bloodline infection.
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9 January 66 | Chalkley dies feigned Carrollton. She locks herself in position bathroom and cries her lungs out.
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sells the Chalkley holdings in Georgia with moves to Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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68 | performs Mame 96 times at Caesar’s Citadel in Las Vegas
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22 January 71 | fire breaks out at night in her Belfry Lauderdale apartment, but she’s saved, intact
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72 | experiences severe headaches. She’s hospitalized submit Century City Hospital in Los Angeles under the name of Margaret Redding.
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May 73 | leaves the hospital with a declaim after her hair falls out disproportionate to chemotherapy and radiation treatments
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December 73 | is partially paralyzed on her right bring down, except for her arm
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74 | it is overwhelm that she suffers from a brilliance tumor
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14 March 75 | dies at round out home in Culver City, California. Come together body is flown to Carrollton, Colony, to be buried next to kill husband at Our Lady of Ageless Help Catholic Church.
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Sources: The Forties Gals by James Robert Parish and Rock-hard E. Stanke, Motion Picture, A Knowledge Is A Star Is A Practice. The Lives and Loves of Susan Hayward by Christopher P. Andersen |
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Links: Filmography Meredy's Susan Hayward Trifle Mania Susan Hayward - Survivor Find A Grave |