Sixty-eight years ago today, Hayward became an Oscar-winning actress after taking home a major award at the 31st Academy ...

You can’t say this has been done before: A cabaret act called “I Want to Live!” in which the star plays Barbara Graham — the real-life death-row inmate portrayed by Susan Hayward in the 1958 movie — ...

Pretty, exuberant leading lady who began her Hollywood career in 1937 as a bit player and was a star by the mid-1940s. Talented and tempestuous, with a penchant for playing ripe melodrama with all the ...