9 Movies Starring Susan Hayward

House of Strangers

House of Strangers

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1949-07-01

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (1686 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Philip Yordan (screenplay)

Jerome Weidman (novel)

Fullplot:

In New York, after seven years in prison, the lawyer Max Monetti goes to the bank of his brothers Joe, Tony and Pietro Monetti and promises revenge to them. Then he visits his lover Irene Bennett that asks him to forget the past and start a new life. Max recalls the early 30s, when he is the favorite son of his father Gino Monetti, who has a bank in the East Side. Gino is a tyrannical and egocentric self-made man that raises his family in an environment of hatred and Max is a competent lawyer engaged with Maria Domenico. When Max meets the confident Irene, he has a troubled love affair with her. In 1933, with the new Banking Act reaches Gino for misapplication of funds. Max plots a plan to help his father but is betrayed by his brothers. Now Max will see his brothers that have also being raised under the motto "Never Forgive, Never Forget".

David and Bathsheba

David and Bathsheba

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1951-08-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (1244 Reviews)

Director:

Henry King

Cast:

Writer:

Philip Dunne (written for the screen by)

Fullplot:

Though David has all the wealth, power, wives & children inherent for the King of Israel he does not have what he craves most: the true love of a woman who loves him as a man instead of as King. He is attracted to Bathsheba, the wife of one of his soldiers who is more devoted to army duty than to his wife. David & Bathsheba succumb to their feelings. Their affair, her resulting pregnancy, & David's resolve to have her husband killed so Bathsheba will be free to marry, bring the wrath of God upon the kingdom. David must rediscover his faith in God in order to save Bathsheba from death by stoning, his kingdom from drought & famine, & himself from his many sins.

Rawhide

Rawhide

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1951-03-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

89 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (1313 Reviews)

Director:

Henry Hathaway

Fullplot:

Vinnie Holt, a single woman traveling with her toddler niece, becomes stranded at Rawhide, a desert stagecoach stop managed by stationmaster Sam Todd and his assistant Tom Owens. Owens is quickly impressed by Vinnie's independent self-confidence. Jim Zimmerman, a fugitive murderer from Huntsville Prison disguised as a deputy, and three other ruthless escapees take over the station, intent on robbing the next day's gold shipment. After murdering Sam, Zimmerman knows they must keep Tom alive in order to complete their plans. Owens does not correct Zimmmerman's assumption that Vin is his wife, correctly sensing that the misconception might be the key to her survival also.

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1952-12-18

Languages:

English, French, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (3365 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Casey Robinson (screenplay)

Fullplot:

As writer Harry Street lays gravely wounded from an African hunting accident he feverishly reflects on what he perceives as his failures at love and writing. Through his delirium he recalls his one true love Cynthia Green who he lost by his obsession for roaming the world in search of stories for his novels. Though she is dead Cynthia continues to haunt Street's thoughts. In spite of one successful novel after another, Street feels he has compromised his talent to ensure the success of his books, making him a failure in his eyes. His neglected wife Helen tends to his wounds, listens to his ranting, endures his talk of lost loves, and tries to restore in him the will to fight his illness until help arrives. Her devotion to him makes him finally realize that he is not a failure. With his realization of a chance for love and happiness with Helen, he regains his will to live.

With a Song in My Heart

With a Song in My Heart

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1952-04-04

Languages:

English, Portuguese

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

117 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (929 Reviews)

Director:

Walter Lang

Fullplot:

Jane Froman (Susan Hayward), an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross (David Wayne), whom she later marries. Jane's popularity soars, and she leaves on a European tour... but her plane crashes in Lisbon, and she is partially crippled. Unable to walk without crutches, Jane nevertheless goes on to entertain the Allied troops in World War II.

I'll Cry Tomorrow

I'll Cry Tomorrow

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1955-12-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

117 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (1246 Reviews)

Director:

Daniel Mann

Cast:

Writer:

Helen Deutsch (screenplay)

Jay Richard Kennedy (screenplay)

Lillian Roth (book)

Mike Connolly (book)

Gerold Frank (book)

Fullplot:

Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic. She enters into a short-lived marriage to an immature aviation cadet, Wallie, followed by a divorce and then marriage to a sadistic brute and abuser Tony Bardeman. After a failed suicide attempt, Burt McGuire comes to her aid and helps her find the road back to happiness after sixteen years in a nightmare world, not counting the first twenty with her mother.

I Want to Live!

I Want to Live!

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1958-11-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (3995 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Wise

Cast:

Writer:

Nelson Gidding (screenplay)

Don Mankiewicz (screenplay)

Ed Montgomery (newspaper articles)

Barbara Graham (letters)

Fullplot:

Barbara Graham is a woman with dubious moral standards, often a guest in seedy bars. She has been sentenced for some petty crimes. Two men she knows murder an older woman. When they get caught they start to think that Barbara has helped the police to arrest them. As a revenge they tell the police that Barbara is the murderer.

Where Love Has Gone

Where Love Has Gone

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1964-11-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

111 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (868 Reviews)

Director:

Edward Dmytryk

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

John Michael Hayes

Harold Robbins (novel)

Fullplot:

After his teenage daughter Danny is arrested for the murder of his ex-wife's current lover, Luke Miller recalls his marriage to Valerie Hayden and the subsequent events which led to the tragedy. The lurid story seems to have been suggested by the real-life Lana Turner/Johnny Stompanato/Cheryl Crane murder scandal of six years earlier when Lana's daughter Cheryl stabbed her mother's boyfriend (Stompanato) to death in the bedroom of Lana's Beverly Hills home.

I'll Cry Tomorrow

I'll Cry Tomorrow

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1955-12-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

117 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (1246 Reviews)

Director:

Daniel Mann

Cast:

Writer:

Helen Deutsch (screenplay)

Jay Richard Kennedy (screenplay)

Lillian Roth (book)

Mike Connolly (book)

Gerold Frank (book)

Fullplot:

Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic. She enters into a short-lived marriage to an immature aviation cadet, Wallie, followed by a divorce and then marriage to a sadistic brute and abuser Tony Bardeman. After a failed suicide attempt, Burt McGuire comes to her aid and helps her find the road back to happiness after sixteen years in a nightmare world, not counting the first twenty with her mother.

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