Susan Hayward

Hayward has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6251 Hollywood Blvd. Isabel Jewell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 1560 Vine St. The brain cancer which took her life is traced by some back to her work in The Conqueror, filmed about 100 miles downwind of active Nevadan nuclear-weapon test sites, and in sets dressed with truckloads of dirt from the area. She died in Hollywood, California. Other major films included I'll Cry Tomorrow and I Want to Live!, for which she won the Oscar. By the end of her career she had appeared in more than one hundred films. In 1947 Hayward received the first of her five Academy Award nominations for Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman. Her subsequent films included Gone With the Wind (1939), Northwest Passage (1940), and High Sierra (1941), but by the end of the 1940s her roles had reduced in significance to the degree that her performances were often uncredited.

She played a dramatic role in Among the Living, and a Southern belle in Reap the Wild Wind. Her most significant role was as the prostitute Gloria Stone in Lost Horizon (1937). Although she didn't get that role, she won the role of the female lead in Beau Geste. She was well received playing against type, as a seamstress sentenced to death on the guillotine, in A Tale of Two Cities (1935). She went to Hollywood in 1939, aiming to become the unknown who won the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. She played stereotypical gangster's women in such films as Manhattan Melodrama (1934) and Marked Woman (1937). Born Edythe Marrenner in Brooklyn, New York, she began her career as a photographer's model. A petite 4' 11" tall and with platinum blonde hair, Jewell appeared in a variety of supporting roles during the early 1930s.

Susan Hayward (June 30, 1917 - March 14, 1975) was an American actress. She was brought to Hollywood for the film version of the latter, by Warner Brothers. 1948 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman. Born in Shoshone, Wyoming, Jewell was a Broadway actress who achieved immediate success and glowing critical reviews in two productions, Up Pops the Devil (1930) and Blessed Event (1932). 1950 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - My Foolish Heart. Isabel Jewell (July 19, 1907 - April 5, 1972) was an American film actress. 1953 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - With a Song in My Heart.

1956 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - I'll Cry Tomorrow. 1959 - Won Best Actress in a Leading Role - I Want to Live!.