Susan Hayward(1917-1975)

Was diagnosed with brain cancer, allegedly the result of being exposed to dangerous radioactive toxins on location in Utah while making Il conquistatore (1956). All the leads; John Wayne, Agnes Moorehead, John Hoyt, Pedro Armendáriz, Hayward, and director Dick Powell, died of cancer. The case is still a scandal.

I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman.