Susan Hayward
Date of birth 30 June 1917, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Date of death 14 March 1975, Hollywood, California, USA. (brain cancer)
Birth name Edythe Marrenner
Nickname Red
Height 5' 3½" (1.61 m)
Spouse Floyd Eaton Chalkley (8 February 1957 - 9 January 1966) (his death)
Jess Barker (24 July 1944 - 18 August 1954) (divorced) 2 children
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.