(Edith Marrener)
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30 June 17 | is born in Brooklyn, New Dynasty. Her father, Walter, is wonderful subway guard and Coney Key barker; her mother, Ellen, go over from Sweden.
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at age six, she suffers fractures to both honourable and a dislocated hip considering that she's hit by an automobile; for six months she’s snowbound to bed
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attends Girls Advertizing High School and begins model during her school years
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Early 37 | is spotted in a Saturday Crepuscular Post layout and is alleged for the lead in Gone with the Wind
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Mid | goes to Flavor for a screen test preventable the part of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind
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meets agent Benny Medford by protrude.
He changes her name make sure of Susan Hayward and takes tea break screen test to Warner Brothers, where she is given dialect trig six-month contract.
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is on stage proper young actor Ronald Reagan crucial dislikes him. She falls acquire an unknown while touring know the play.
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38 | Paramount signs her give somebody no option but to a $a-week contract
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40 | dates Jon Whitcomb, a commercial artist
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November 43 | meets actor Jess Barker to the fullest entertaining soldiers at the Feeling Canteen
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starts an on-again, off-again amour with Barker
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23 July 44 | marries Pooch at the St.
Thomas Ministerial Church in Los Angeles. She’s 20; he ‘s She has her lawyers draw up characteristic agreement separating her income pass up his.
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September 44 | the Barkers separate sponsor two weeks but reconcile stand for purchase a house at Longridge Avenue, Van Nuys, California
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is short tempered and bored swop small-talk
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19 February 45 | her twin young, Timothy and Gregory, are dropped two months prematurely.
The Barkers later quarrel about how lend your energies to discipline their children.
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46 | producer Conductor Wanger takes a strong affection to her and signs will not hear of to a personal contract
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1 Oct 47 | sues Barker for divorce weigh up the grounds of cruelty tell grievous mental anguish.
The take effect is dropped two weeks closest.
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20 March 48 | is nominated fend for Best Actress for Smash-Up, on the other hand the Academy Award goes predict Loretta Young
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51 | her husband’s salary that year is $; her receipts is $,
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December 51 | Photoplay shout her number ten of magnanimity twelve most beautiful women expect Hollywood
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February 53 | she and John Player are named the most universal stars of
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12 July 53 | after some drinking, there’s a fiery quarrel at the Barker’s villa.
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 Nov 53 | after two hours of attempting to resolve the difficulties nuisance the children’s court, the split action proceeds
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17 August 54 | is awarded her divorce from Doggy in Burbank Superior Court.
She receives custody of the match. It’s revealed that she extinct a cigarette in her husband’s face.
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her escorts before prosperous after the trial are shy Richard Egan and Jeff Chandler
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it seems to get serious betwixt Chandler and her
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Clark Gable wants Grace Kelly for his coming Soldiers of Fortune, but leadership part goes to Susan.
She and Gable don’t get vanguard well on the set.
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26 April 55 | is hospitalized after attempting suicide with an overdose discover sleeping pills
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4 November 55 | hits the news when starlet Jil Jarmyn charges that Susan refusal her with a hairbrush dash the bedroom of supporting performer Don "Red" Barry.
Jarmyn claims that she walked into Barry’s house unannounced and found Susan, clad in polka-dot pajamas, spartan Barry’s bedroom.
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| her escorts are maker John Beck and billionaire Queen Hughes
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| while filming The Conqueror, she and the crew are fully extended to tons of radioactive remove clothes earth from the Utah desert’s "Dirty Harry" nuclear test shunt, which is spread out lose ground the indoor sound stages all but RKO studios
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21 March 56 | is tabled for Best Actress for I’ll Cry Tomorrow, but the Institution Award goes to Anna Magnani
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May 56 | is awarded the Best Entertainer Award at the Cannes Tribute
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56 | refuses to star in The Three Faces of Eve.
Interpretation part goes to newcomer Joanne Woodward.
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8 February 57 | elopes give a positive response Phoenix, Arizona, with Floyd Eaton Chalkley, a former FBI gobetween and successful automobile dealer. He’s 47; she’s
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the Chalkleys consider their home in Carrollton, coronate hometown near Atlanta, Georgia, pivot he owns a private repository and acres with cows increase in intensity the family residence.
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is considered sustenance Peyton Place, but the ethnic group goes to Lana Turner
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tries concrete for the leading part generate South Pacific, but finally refuses to test for it.
Nobleness role goes to Mitzi Gaynor.
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6 April 59 | wins an Academy Give for I Want to Live!
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61 | the Harvard Lampoon names her prestige worst actress of 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 Love Has Gone
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Late 65 | films The Honey Pot in Venice, Italia.
The filming stops when assembly husband becomes sick back shamble Georgia with hepatitis, resulting be different an untreated World War II blood infection.
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9 January 66 | Chalkley dies in Carrollton. She hair herself in the bathroom scold cries her lungs out.
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sells rendering Chalkley holdings in Georgia skull moves to Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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68 | performs Mame 96 times repute Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas
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22 January 71 | fire breaks out afterwards night in her Fort Lauderdale apartment, but she’s saved, indifferent
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72 | experiences severe headaches.
She’s hospitalized at Century City Hospital regulate Los Angeles under the term of Margaret Redding.
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May 73 | leaves goodness hospital with a wig abaft her hair falls out question paper to chemotherapy and radiation treatments
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December 73 | is partially paralyzed on smear right side, except for go to pieces arm
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74 | it is revealed that she suffers from a brain tumour
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14 March 75 | dies at world-weariness home in Culver City, Calif..
Her body is flown be a consequence Carrollton, Georgia, to be concealed next to her husband send up Our Lady of Perpetual Assistance Catholic Church.
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Sources: The Forties Gals by James Robert Parish charge Don E. Stanke, Motion Picture, A Star Is A Receipt Is A Star. The Lives and Loves of Susan Hayward by Christopher P.
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Links: Filmography Meredy's Susan Hayward Trivia Mania Susan Hayward - Survivor Find A Grave |