The best Susan Hayward’s romance movies

Susan Hayward

Susan Hayward

30/06/1917- 14/03/1975
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Valley of the Dolls

Valley of the Dolls
6/10
In New York City, bright but naive New Englander Anne Welles becomes a secretary at a theatrical law firm, where she falls in love with attorney Lyon Burke. Anne befriends up-and-coming singer Neely O'Hara, whose dynamic talent threatens aging star Helen Lawson and beautiful but talentless actress Jennifer North. The women experience success and failure in love and work, leading to heartbreak, addiction and tragedy.

David and Bathsheba

David and Bathsheba
6.1/10
King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.

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.

Reap the Wild Wind

Reap the Wild Wind
6.6/10
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

The Snows of Kilimanjaro
6.1/10
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Soldier of Fortune

Soldier of Fortune
6.2/10
An American woman arrives in Hong Kong to unravel the mystery of her missing photographer husband. After getting nowhere with the authorities, she is led by some underground characters to an American soldier of fortune working in the area against the Communists. He promises to help find her husband.

Deadline at Dawn

Deadline at Dawn
6.8/10
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.

Jack London

Jack London
5.1/10
The true story of the adventurous and remarkable life of the American novelist Jack London(1876-1916).

They Won't Believe Me

They Won't Believe Me
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 16/07/1947
  • Character: Verna Carlson
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.

Where Love Has Gone

Where Love Has Gone
6.1/10
  • Genre: Romance
  • Release: 02/11/1964
  • Character: Valerie Hayden Miller
A divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover.

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.

Woman Obsessed

Woman Obsessed
6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 27/05/1959
  • Character: Mary Sharron
After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drifting handyman, they fall in love, and a resentment begins to build between the son and his new "step-father" who treats the boy harshly on purpose to prepare him for life on the frontier.

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 17/02/1951
  • Character: Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spiritual and emotional needs of his small flock.

My Foolish Heart

My Foolish Heart
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 19/01/1950
  • Character: Eloise Winters
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 that lead up to her split with Mary Jane, and how Lew married Eloise rather than Mary Jane.

The Lost Moment

The Lost Moment
6.8/10
In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared mysteriously. Using a false name, Lewis Venable rents a room from Juliana Bordereau, once Jeffrey Ashton's lover, now an aged recluse. Running the household is Juliana's severe niece, Tina, who mistrusts Venable from the first moment. He realizes all is not right when late one night he finds Tina, her hair unpinned and wild, at the piano. She calls him Jeffrey and throws herself at him. The family priest warns Venable to tread carefully around her fantasies, but he wants the letters at any cost, even Tina's sanity.

Adam Had Four Sons

Adam Had Four Sons
6.6/10
  • Genre: Romance
  • Release: 27/03/1941
  • Character: Hester Stoddard
Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard 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 relationships with both the boys and Adam become strained after one son marries a gold-digging viper named Hester. Written by Daniel Bubbeo

And Now Tomorrow

And Now Tomorrow
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 22/11/1944
  • Character: Janice Blair
Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn't work. Her sister is carrying on an affair with her fiance Jeff. Vance tries a new serum which causes Emily to faint... Will it work this time?

The President's Lady

The President's Lady
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 21/05/1953
  • Character: Rachel Donaldson
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.

Comet Over Broadway

Comet Over Broadway
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 03/12/1938
  • Character: Amateur Actress (uncredited)
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.

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