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Susan Hayward: Hollywood Hotel
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Untamed is perhaps the ideal Hayward title: her personality at all points resists the "taming" represented by the traditional Hollywood happy ending, the subordination of female desire to male desire, the woman's surrender of her autonomy. Her two finest films make interesting and contrasted use of her intractability. The "happy ending" of Canyon Passage (one of the most underestimated of all Westerns) teams her with a "wanderer hero" (Dana Andrews) who equally refuses the confines of domesticity. Nicholas Ray's use of her in The Lusty Men is, on the contrary, fascinating in its perversity: her aggressiveness is allowed its full expression (including rage and physical violence) but exclusively in the interests of home and settling.
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One of the most curious legend's in Hollywood history blames the U.S. government for Hayward's death from cancer. In 1956, she had gone on location to shoot one of her worst films, The Conqueror (1956), in Utah. Not only was this near a U.S. nuclear testing facility, but producer Howard Hawks had dirt from the location shipped back to Hollywood for the studio scenes. Years later, fans pointed to a surprisingly high incidence of cancer among cast and crew -- including co-stars Wayne, Agnes Moorehead and Pedro Armendariz, and director Dick Powell -- as evidence that they had been victims of nuclear fallout.
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Although she didn't get that role, Hayward landed a few bit parts until she eventually landed the female lead in Beau Geste ( 1939 ) opposite Gary Cooper which made her a superstar. During the war years, she played leading lady to John Wayne twice in Reap the Wild Wind and The Fighting Seabees . Post-war, she established herself as one of Hollywood's most popular leading ladies in films such as Tap Roots , My Foolish Heart , David and Bathsheba , and With a Song in My Heart .
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Hayward was one of Hollywood's most successful film stars from the late 1940s through the early 1960s. Although a native of New York, she spent much of her later life in Georgia on a farm near Carrollton.
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After eleven years in Hollywood, Susan played a role similar to the one she had lost and longed to play. Morna Dabney was almost another Scarlet O" Hara, a southern spitfire, and Susan played it with nerve and vitality.
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