LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Susan Hayward: Hollywood Hotel
built 618 days ago
Susan Hayward was a scrapper, fighting her way to the top over the course of a decade in Hollywood, fighting to stay there through the turbulent '50s and fighting to survive as brain cancer slowly took her life. Little wonder she made her biggest splash on screen playing women fighting to overcome almost insurmountable disadvantages.
Source:
Susan Hayward, near the height of her career, once refused to check out of a New York City hotel until she got a dozen bars of the hotel"s guest soap-free-to take back to Hollywood. Beverly Linet understands that sort of thing.The tiny red-haired woman,who was in town this week to promote her biography of the late star, stayed at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel. And when she left, a bar of that hotel"s soap went with her.
Source:
Susan Hayward is great as a broken woman who turns to the bottle thanks in part to the irresponsibility of her successful singer husband. Reportedly based on real Hollywood situations, this film is unflinching in its depiction of alcoholism. Eddie Albert, Lee Bowman. 104 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Plays All Regions.
Source:
One of the remarkable performances for which Susan Hayward will be remembered as a very good actor is the role of ‘The President’s Lady’ in the year 1953. In this movie she played the role of the melancholic wife of the President’s wife. Susan continued her triumphant reign as a Hollywood actor the decades of 1960s and 1970s but suddenly she was diagnosed with Brain Cancer. She breathed her last at the age of 57 on 14th March in 1975.Wikipedia
Source:
Born Edythe Marrenner on June 30, 1917, in Brooklyn, New York, Hayward began her career as a model while in her late teens. When the search for an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind began in 1938, producer David O. Selznick brought Marrenner to Hollywood, California, to audition for the part. Although she did not win the role, her audition paved the way for other acting opportunities. She was put under contract to Warner Brothers and changed her name to Susan Hayward.
Source:
Hayward was born Edythe Marrenner in Brooklyn, New York to Walter Marrenner and Ellen Pearson. Her maternal grandparents were from Sweden.[1] She began her career as a photographer's model, going to Hollywood in 1937, aiming to secure the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind. Her screen name was chosen by her management because it was "as close to Rita Hayworth as we can get away with."
Source:
MORE ABOUT
Hollywood Hotel