The best Susan Hayward’s comedy movies

Susan Hayward

Susan Hayward

30/06/1917- 14/03/1975
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Susan Hayward’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Susan Hayward.

I Married a Witch

I Married a Witch
7.1/10
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.

The Honey Pot

The Honey Pot
6.8/10
A millionaire fakes a terminal illness to fleece his former girlfriends.

Star Spangled Rhythm

Star Spangled Rhythm
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 05/03/1942
  • Character: Genevieve in Priorities Skit
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.

Hollywood Hotel

Hollywood Hotel
6.4/10
Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band has won a talent contest an got a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But this lady doesn't want to go, so the bosses decide to use for Mona a double, Virginia. When Mona finds out next morning that happened, she insisted to fire her double and Ronny. Ronny finds work as singing waiter in a drive in, and is spotted by a director of the same studio, who wants him to lend his voice for an leading actor in a musical.

Our Leading Citizen

Our Leading Citizen
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/08/1939
  • Character: Judith Schofield
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.

Sis Hopkins

Sis Hopkins
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/04/1941
  • Character: Carol Hopkins
An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.

The Marriage-Go-Round

The Marriage-Go-Round
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/01/1961
  • Character: Content Delville
An anthropology professor and his professor wife have the perfect marriage--until a Swedish colleague's daughter comes to visit. Not only is the little girl all grown up, but she's ready to start a family--with him!

Top Secret Affair

Top Secret Affair
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/01/1957
  • Character: Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale
A publisher (Susan Hayward) uses her magazine and charm to derail a general (Kirk Douglas) on the Washington fast track.

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