*Ø* What killed Susan Hayward?
June 30, 1917 Birth of Susan Hayward (born Edythe Marrenner; d. 1975), American actress (Oscar: I Want To Live); portrayed an alcoholic in three films, (Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman, My Foolish Heart, and I'll Cry Tomorrow) and was nominated for an Oscar for each performance.
Hayward died of brain cancer, possibly because she was one of the cast members of the ill fated film The Conquerer, which was filmed in 1954 in the Nevada desert near to where dozens of above-ground nuclear fission bombs had been detonated since 1951. The film crew returned to Hollywood with 60 tons of local fallout-contaminated red sand for studio retakes.
In later years those tests were suspected to have caused the cancer deaths of several of the film's stars, including John Wayne, Dick Powell, Agnes Moorehead and Pedro Armendáriz.
Of the 220 persons who worked on The Conqueror on location in Utah in 1955, 91 had contracted cancer as of the early 1980s and 46 died of it. In a population of that size and a similar age distribution, the expected cancer incidence might have been about thirty persons ...
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June 30, 1917 Birth of Susan Hayward (born Edythe Marrenner; d. 1975), American actress (Oscar: I Want To Live); portrayed an alcoholic in three films, (Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman, My Foolish Heart, and I'll Cry Tomorrow) and was nominated for an Oscar for each performance.
Hayward died of brain cancer, possibly because she was one of the cast members of the ill fated film The Conquerer, which was filmed in 1954 in the Nevada desert near to where dozens of above-ground nuclear fission bombs had been detonated since 1951. The film crew returned to Hollywood with 60 tons of local fallout-contaminated red sand for studio retakes.
In later years those tests were suspected to have caused the cancer deaths of several of the film's stars, including John Wayne, Dick Powell, Agnes Moorehead and Pedro Armendáriz.
Of the 220 persons who worked on The Conqueror on location in Utah in 1955, 91 had contracted cancer as of the early 1980s and 46 died of it. In a population of that size and a similar age distribution, the expected cancer incidence might have been about thirty persons ...
This is just a snippet of today's stories. Read all about today in folklore, historical oddities, inspiration and alternatives, with more links, at the Wilson's Almanac Book of Days, every day. Click today's date when you're there.
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