Should you’ve by no means heard of Susan Hayward, then you definately’re in all probability not a lot of a Hollywood historian. She started her onscreen appearing profession within the late Nineteen Thirties however began to take off a few decade later with the 1947 movie “Smash-Up: The Story of a Girl,” for which she earned her first of 5 Academy Award nominations in the very best actress class. Her different nominations got here in 1950 for “My Silly Coronary heart,” 1953 for “With a Track in My Coronary heart,” and 1956 for “I am going to Cry Tomorrow.” The fifth time wound being the appeal for Hayward, who lastly received the coveted award in 1959 for her flip in “I Need to Stay!”
In that Oscar-winning efficiency, Hayward performs real-life convicted assassin Barbara Graham. It is the form of gritty, advanced character that outlined the star’s profession. Hayward’s unbelievable Academy Award run by way of the late ’40s and ’50s led proper as much as the discharge of “Dr. No” in 1962, so it makes good sense why she would have been thought of as a feminine James Bond on the time.
Since then, the concept of a feminine James Bond has by no means actually gained studio traction once more, although Lashana Lynch’s Nomi character took on the 007 agent quantity in “No Time to Die.” Had Hayward been solid, we might be having a really totally different dialog in the present day about who may or could not play James Bond.