Hollywood Remembers Susan Hayward
Originally a model in New York, her first ever trip to Hollywood was as a potential Scarlett in Gone with the Wind. Despite not winning the role, she decided to stay in order to re-train her voice and remove traces of her thick Brooklyn accent, and of course, learn how to act.
She won a seven-year contract with Paramount but never received good parts and moved to Twentieth Century Fox. She received three Oscar nominations for her work, including Smash Up - The Story of a Woman (1947), My Foolish Heart (1949) and With a Song in my Heart (1952), Finally won the Oscar in 1958 for I Want to Live!
