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Acting

Susan Hayward

Career: Active from 1938 to 2025, with a break from 1973 to 2000, with up to 4 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 52
top three billing

Average score: 63/100

Highest rated: The Lusty Men
87/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 37 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Susan Hayward Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.2, average 5.4
Situational Comedy
1.4, average 2.7
Absurdist Humor
0.7, average 2.0
Uncanny
1.4, average 2.5

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Classic Hollywood 8
Historical Drama 5
Social Commentary 5
Political Intrigue 4
Romance 4
Character-Driven 4
Classic Western 3
Moral Conflict 3
Historical Setting 3
Strong Female Lead 3
Female Protagonist 3
Romantic Drama 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

69

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

1 title

Filme Algarve

as Lucy Overmire (archive footage)

2000s

3 titles

Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'

as Helen Lawson (archive footage)

The Dish on Dolls

as Helen Lawson (archive footage)

Bride of Trailer Camp

as (archive footage)

1970s

3 titles · average score 66

Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole

72

as Dr. Maggie Cole

Heat of Anger

as Jessie Fitzgerald

The Revengers

59

as Elizabeth Reilly

1960s

9 titles · average score 58

The Honey Pot

66

as Mrs. Sheridan

Valley of the Dolls

52

as Helen Lawson

Uncertain Verification

as (archive footage)

Where Love Has Gone

52

as Valerie Hayden Miller

Stolen Hours

60

as Laura Pember

I Thank a Fool

61

as Christine Allison

Back Street

65

as Rae Smith

Ada

62

as Ada Gillis

The Marriage-Go-Round

51

as Content Delville

1950s

21 titles · average score 61

Woman Obsessed

49

as Mary Sharron

I Want to Live!

84

as Barbara Graham

The Conqueror

28

as Bortai

Soldier of Fortune

57

as Mrs. Jane Hoyt

I'll Cry Tomorrow

77

as Lillian Roth

Demetrius and the Gladiators

71

as Messalina

Garden of Evil

71

as Leah Fuller

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

61

as Helen Street

The Lusty Men

87

as Louise Merritt

David and Bathsheba

57

as Bathsheba

Rawhide

65

as Vinnie Holt

My Foolish Heart

61

as Eloise Winters

1940s

24 titles · average score 65

House of Strangers

71

as Irene Bennett

Tulsa

56

as Cherokee Lansing

Tap Roots

72

as Morna Dabney

They Won't Believe Me

71

as Verna Carlson

Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

61

as Angie Evans

Canyon Passage

83

as Lucy Overmire

Deadline at Dawn

61

as June Goffe

The Fighting Seabees

82

as Constance Chesley

Young and Willing

54

as Kate Benson

The Forest Rangers

78

as Tana 'Butch' Mason

Sis Hopkins

as Carol Hopkins

Adam Had Four Sons

60

as Hester Stoddard

1930s

8 titles · average score 61

Beau Geste

75

as Isobel Rivers

Our Leading Citizen

as Judith Schofield

$1,000 a Touchdown

as Betty McGlen

Campus Cinderella

as Co-Ed

The Sisters

62

as Telephone operator

Hollywood Hotel

53

as Starlet at Table (uncredited)

Comet Over Broadway

57

as Amateur Actress (uncredited)

Girls on Probation

60

as Gloria Adams