One Foot in 1941

My name is Polly. I love film, especially classics from the Golden Era of Hollywood, all things vintage, books, nature, art and history. I love the life of the 1910's, 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's.and 60's. Especially the 1920's, 30’s & 40's.

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Clark Gable & Susan Hayward

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Susan Hayward and Dana Andrews in My Foolish Heart, 1949.

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Rawhide 1951

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Modern Screen, March 1943

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Susan Hayward with her twin sons Gregory and Timothy Barker

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JON WHITCOMB Head Of Susan Hayward Watercolor, Conte, Pastel 9″ x 9″

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Susan Hayward, 1940s

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Susan Hayward

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"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."

Celebrating Susan Hayward born June 30, in 1917.

Over 60 roles including I Want to Live, I'll Cry Tomorrow, With a Song in My Heart, My Foolish Heart and Smash Up The Story of a Woman.

Did You Know? She won a Best Actress Oscar for I Want to Live

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Susan Hayward

June 30, 1917 – March 14, 1975

☆ American actress best known for her film portrayals of women that were based on true stories. She worked as a fashion model for the Walter Thornton Model Agency, then traveled to Hollywood in 1937 to audition for the role of Scarlett O'Hara. She secured a film contract and played several small supporting roles over the next few years.

By the late 1940s, the quality of her film roles improved, and she achieved recognition for her dramatic abilities with the first of five Academy Award for Best Actress nominations for her performance as an alcoholic in Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947) and received nominations for My Foolish Heart (1949), With a Song in My Heart (1952), and I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955), winning the Academy Award for her portrayal of death row inmate Barbara Graham in I Want to Live! (1958). For her performance in I'll Cry Tomorrow she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress.

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1950s. Queens, Jamaica. Actress Greta Garbo, who is all alone as she usually wants to be, tries to dodge photographers at Idelwild International Airport (now JFK)where she took plane for West Coast.

Photo by Tom Gallagher/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images

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Made it, Ma! Top of the world! | White Heat (1949)

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Study in the reading room

Cambridge, Massachusetts -- 3/12/16

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Sopofsky's, shoe repairs and apartment advertisements - the daily life of the Lower East Side in the 1920s.

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