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Susan Hayward Biography
All the leads Agnes Moorehead, John Wayne,John Hoyt, Dick Powell, and Susan herself all died from cancer. They all starred in the same film and was exposed to radiation.
 

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Bust: 36"   Waist: /2"  Hips: /2"

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  • "I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman."
  • "I never thought of myself as a movie star. I`m just a working girl. A working girl who worked her way to the top -- and never fell off."
  • "My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don`t relax because I don`t know how. I don`t want to know how. Life is too short to relax."
  • "When you`re dead, you`re dead. No one is going to remember me when I`m dead. Oh maybe a few friends will remember me affectionately. Being remembered isn`t the most important thing anyhow. It`s what you do when you are here that`s important."
  • You aim at all the things you have been told that stardom means -- the rich life, the applause, the parties cluttered with celebrities. Then you find that you have it all. And it is nothing, really nothing. It is like a drug that lasts just a few hours, a sleeping pill. When it wears off, you have to live without its help.
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  • Her footprints at Grauman`s Chinese Theatre are the only ones set in gold dust.
  • In Italy, almost all of her films were dubbed by either Lidia Simoneschi or Rosetta Calavetta. She was occasionally dubbed by Dhia Cristiani.
  • Interred at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, Carrollton, Georgia, USA.
  • Replaced an ailing Barbara Stanwyck in Heat of Anger (1972) (TV), which was to have been a pilot for a TV series to be called "Fitzgerald and Pride."
  • Reportedly did not get on at all with Bette Davis during the filming of Where Love Has Gone (1964).
  • She portrayed an alcoholic in three films, Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947), My Foolish Heart (1949) and I`ll Cry Tomorrow (1955)) and was nominated for an Oscar for each performance.
  • Took over the ballsy role of stage star Helen Lawson in Valley of the Dolls (1967) in 1967 after Judy Garland was fired.
  • Was diagnosed with brain cancer, allegedly the result of being exposed to dangerous radioactive toxins on location in Utah while making The Conqueror (1956). All the leads John Wayne, Agnes Moorehead, John Hoyt, Hayward and the director Dick Powell died of cancer. The case is still a scandal.
  • Was one of many starlets in 1939 who auditioned for the part of Scarlett O`Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).
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