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Susan Hayward

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  • Smash-Up
  • Smash-Up review by from Belfast
    Rated - 3.0 stars Stunning Susan 7 November 2005
    ...Susan Hayward delivers a powerful performance as the alcoholic wife of a singer whose career is on the up. Hayward carries this movie and it is worth watching for her alone...   Read customer review
  • Garden Of Evil
  • Garden Of Evil review by roncoach from
    Rated - 3.0 stars Coop, Widmark, Hayward....has to be watched: but it is far from their normal highest league 4 September 2011
    ...3*s to a film starring the legendary Coop, the excellent Widmark and the lovely Susan Hayward. But I can not objectively provide the extra half-star that I would wish to-...   Read customer review
  • Canyon Passage
  • Canyon Passage review by A customer from London
    Rated - 3.5 stars Fine convincing western 20 June 2010
    ...his clients to pay off his heavy losses. He is in engaged to marry the spirited Susan Hayward, but she seems to have eyes for Andrews. Andrews has one serious enemy, Ward Bo...   Read customer review

Susan Hayward - filmography


  • The Honey Pot on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Rex Harrison,  Susan Hayward,  Cliff Robertson
    Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Comedy drama directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward and Cliff Robertson. This re-working of Ben Jonson's 17th century masterpiece 'Volpone' finds millionaire Cecil Fox (Harrison) pretending to be terminally ill in an attempt to trick three of his former mistresses...read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 42 members
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  • Valley Of The Dolls (1967)
    Starring: Paul Burke,  Patty Duke,  Martin Milner
    Director: Mark Robson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Classic melodrama exposing the less glamorous side of Hollywood life in the 1960s. Three ambitious young women (played by Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke and Sharon Tate) strive for showbiz success, but get caught up in the seedy underside of the celebrity lifestyle: connivances and contrivances, ego ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 852 members
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  • I Want To Live on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Simon Oakland,  Phillip Coolidge,  Virginia Vincent
    Director: Robert Wise
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The true story of Barbara Graham, a loose-living woman who went to the gas chamber for a crime she claimed she did not commit. Barbara (Susan Hayward) comes from a broken home and drifts into a life of prostitution and petty crime. In San Francisco, she serves a prison sentence for providing false ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 291 members
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  • The Conqueror on DVD (1956)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Susan Hayward,  Pedro Armendáriz
    Director: Dick Powell
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    John Wayne plays Mongol chieftain Temujin, better known as Genghis Khan. The Mongolian warlord must do battle against the rival tribe that killed his father, however the battle pales in comparison with Temujin's home life. He must attempt to woo the heart the heart of the red-haired Tartar prisoner ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 255 members
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  • Demetrius And The Gladiators on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Jay Jackson,  Richard Egan,  Jay Robinson
    Director: Delmer Daves
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A sequel to 'The Robe'. After the death of his master Marcellus, Greek slave Demetrius (Victor Mature) is sent to Rome to train as a gladiator. There his new-found Christian faith is put to the test when he becomes embroiled in the political machinations between Emperor Caligula (Jay Robinson), ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 322 members
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  • Garden Of Evil (1954)
    Starring: Richard Widmark,  Susan Hayward,  Gary Cooper
    Director: Henry Hathaway
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Gary Cooper, Richard Widmark and Cameron Mitchell portray three somewhat disreputable 19th-century soldiers of fortune, en route to California to prospect for gold. Stopping over in a tiny Mexican village, the three men are hired by Susan Hayward to rescue her husband, who is trapped in a gold mine ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 147 members
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  • The President's Lady (1953)
    Starring: Whitfield Connor,  Fay Bainter,  Carl Betz
    Director: Henry Levin
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, through his meeting with and subsequent marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. The plot concentrates on the later scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties.
    1.5 stars out of 5 33% from 3 members
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  • The Snows of Kilimanjaro on DVD (1952)
    Starring: Ava Gardner,  Susan Hayward,  Gregory Peck
    Director: Henry King
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Ernest Hemingway could never come to terms with Hollywood's preoccupation with The Happy Ending: he accepted the money for the screen rights to his short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro, but he could never bring himself to watch it. Gregory Peck plays a character based, in decidedly unflattering ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 217 members
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  • David And Bathsheba on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Jayne Meadows,  John Sutton,  James Robertson Justice
    Director: Henry King
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Cinematic adaptation of the Old Testament story. King David (Gregory Peck), much beloved by his subjects and a war hero of long standing, falls victim to the sins of the flesh when he falls in love with Bathsheba (Susan Hayward), the wife of Uriah (Kieron Moore), one of David's most trusted ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 62 members
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  • Rawhide on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Tyrone Power,  Susan Hayward,  Hugh Marlowe
    Director: Henry Hathaway
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    A stagecoach stop employee and a stranded woman traveler find themselves at the mercy of four desperate outlaws intent on robbing the next day's gold shipment.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 47 members
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  • My Foolish Heart (1949)
    Starring: Dana Andrews,  Susan Hayward
    Director: Mark Robson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers her time with her true love, Walt Dreiser, at the beginning of the Second World War. She recalls the events ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 7 members
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  • Tulsa on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Ed Begley,  Pedro Armendariz Jr.,  Chill Wills
    Director: Stuart Heisler
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Drama starring Susan Hayward as the daughter of a traditional cattle owner who builds an oil empire. When her father dies in an oil well blast, Cherokee Lansing (Hayward) becomes determined to seek revenge. However, while she fights for her property and stages wildcat drilling she forgets about all ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 87 members
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  • Smash-Up (1947)
    Starring: Eddie Albert,  Lee Bowman,  Susan Hayward
    Director: Stuart Heisler
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Classic Hollywood melodrama, starring Susan Hayward as nightclub singer Angie Evans. She falls for a struggling songwriter, but when his career begins to dramatically outshine hers, Angie falls into a trough of despondant alcoholism.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 44 members
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  • Canyon Passage on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Ward Bond,  Dana Andrews,  Patricia Roc
    Director: Jacques Tourneur
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Dana Andrews -- in one of the best performances of his career -- plays Logan Stuart, a bold, ambitious general store and freight company owner based in the mining settlement of Jacksonville, OR, in 1856. He and his best friend, local banker and express company owner George Camrose (Brian Donlevy), ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 68 members
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  • Deadline At Dawn on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Roman Bohnen,  Jerome Cowan,  Bill Williams
    Director: Harold Clurman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    1940s mystery in which a drunken sailor awakes to find a large sum of money on his person and is consequently drawn into a dark mystery. Alex (Bill Williams), like any self-respecting sailor on leave, enjoys a drink, but perhaps this time he has gone too far. Convinced that the money belongs to a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 20 members
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  • And Now Tomorrow on DVD (1944)
    Starring: Alan Ladd,  Loretta Young,  Susan Hayward
    Director: Irving Pichel
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Romantic drama following an attraction that develops between a doctor and patient. The life of Dr Merek Vance (Alan Ladd) is poles apart from that of rich society girl Emily Blair (Loretta Young). Though the two grew up together, Merek now attends to the medical needs of Pittsburgh's poor while ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 12 members
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  • Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
    Starring: Ingrid Bergman,  Warner Baxter,  Susan Hayward
    Director: Gregory Ratoff
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoppard and his wife, Molly. After Molly dies, Adam and the boys grow to depend on Emilie even more. At the same time, Emilie falls in love with Adam. The boys grow up, but Adam insists that Emilie stay on as part of the family. Her ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 58% from 6 members
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  • Beau Geste (1939)
    Starring: Gary Cooper,  Ray Milland,  Robert Preston
    Director: William A. Wellman
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebellious Arabs.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 49 members
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  • The Fighting Seabees on DVD
    Starring: John Wayne,  Susan Hayward,  Dennis O'Keefe
    Director: Edward Ludwig
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The Pacific, 1942. Construction boss Wedge Donovan hits out at the law which prevents his workers from being armed, therefore, becoming easy prey for the Japanese. With the help of Washington he sets up an armed engineering outfit- a Construction Battalion (or Seabee). Bullheaded and impatient, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 444 members
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Susan Hayward facts

5 most recent films

The Honey Pot - 3.0 stars
Valley Of The Dolls - 2.5 stars
I Want To Live - 3.5 stars
The Conqueror - 3.0 stars
Demetrius And The Gladiators - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

I Want To Live - 3.5 stars
Canyon Passage - 3.0 stars
The Fighting Seabees - 3.0 stars
David And Bathsheba - 3.0 stars
Demetrius And The Gladiators - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The President's Lady - 1.5 stars
They Won't Believe Me - 2.5 stars
My Foolish Heart - 2.5 stars
Deadline At Dawn - 2.5 stars
Adam Had Four Sons - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Gregory Peck - 3 times - show films
Kenneth Tobey - 2 times - show films
Robert Preston - 2 times - show films
Dean Jagger - 2 times - show films
Patty Duke - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Mark Robson - 3 times - show films
Henry King - 3 times - show films
Henry Hathaway - 3 times - show films
Stuart Heisler - 2 times - show films
Irving Pichel - 2 times - show films