Cast: Susan Hayward

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Susan Hayward. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Beau Geste

1939 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Gary Cooper · Ray Milland · Robert Preston · Brian Donlevy

Plot BEAU GESTE begins with a framed scene of a mounted column approaching Fort Zinderneuf in the desert of French Morocco. No one answers Colonel de Beaujolais's signal. Someone fires shots...

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

House of Strangers

1949 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Susan Hayward · Richard Conte · Luther Adler

Plot Max Monetti is consumed with vengeance against his brothers after their betrayal of his father Gino. But after remembering his past, especially his relationship with Irene Bennett, Max realizes that...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

I Want to Live!

1958 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Susan Hayward · Simon Oakland · Virginia Vincent · Theodore Bikel

Plot Susan Hayward won the Best Actress Oscar for her shattering portrayal of a fast-living girl who suddenly finds herself facing the death penalty for a murder she didn't commit.

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

The Lusty Men

1952 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Robert Mitchum · Susan Hayward · Arthur Kennedy · Arthur Hunnicutt

Plot When he sustains a rodeo injury, star rider Jeff McCloud returns to his hometown after many years of absence. He signs on as a hired hand with a local ranch,...

7.3

1K votes

7.3

1K votes

The Honey Pot

1967 · Movie · 131 min. · United States

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

1951 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

7.0

107 votes

7.0

107 votes

I'll Cry Tomorrow

1955 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Mann

Cast Susan Hayward · Richard Conte · Eddie Albert · Jo Van Fleet

Plot Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie (Jo Van Fleet), Lillian Roth (Susan Hayward) becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before...

6.9

266 votes

6.9

266 votes

Rawhide

1951 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Tyrone Power · Susan Hayward · Hugh Marlowe · Edgar Buchanan

Plot At an Arizona stagecoach stop, an attendant and a stranded female passenger with her baby are kept hostages by a band of escaped criminals. Their goal is to rob the...

6.9

581 votes

6.9

581 votes

Canyon Passage

1946 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Dana Andrews · Brian Donlevy · Susan Hayward · Patricia Roc

Plot In 1856, backwoods businessman Logan Stuart escorts Lucy Overmire, his friend's fiancée, back home to remote Jacksonville, Oregon; in the course of the hard journey, Lucy is attracted to Logan,...

6.8

724 votes

6.8

724 votes

They Won't Believe Me

1947 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Susan Hayward · Robert Young · Jane Greer · Rita Johnson

Plot On trial for murder, Larry Ballantyne regurgitates an unbelievable story. He recounts how he philanders to other women while his rich loving wife Gretta tries to keep him in line....

6.7

235 votes

6.7

235 votes

The Lost Moment

1947 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Martin Gabel

Cast Robert Cummings · Susan Hayward · Agnes Moorehead · Joan Lorring

Plot 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...

6.6

175 votes

6.6

175 votes

Reap the Wild Wind

1942 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast John Wayne · Paulette Goddard · Ray Milland · Raymond Massey

Plot In 1840, America's line life is the sea, with an intense commerce. In Key West shore, two ship savage companies dispute the wrecked vessels. The honest one belongs to the...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Garden of Evil

1954 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Gary Cooper · Susan Hayward · Richard Widmark · Hugh Marlowe

Plot A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband trapped in a cave in Apache territory.

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

I Married a Witch

1942 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction René Clair

Cast Fredric March · Veronica Lake · Robert Benchley · Susan Hayward

Plot In 1672, two witches (Jennifer and her father Daniel) are burned by puritan Jonathan Wooley; in 1942, they re-materialize to plague his descendant Wallace Wooley, candidate for state governor. Wallace...

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6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

And Now Tomorrow

1944 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Alan Ladd · Loretta Young · Susan Hayward · Barry Sullivan

Plot 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....

6.4

22 votes

6.4

22 votes

My Foolish Heart

1949 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Dana Andrews · Susan Hayward · Kent Smith · Lois Wheeler

Plot 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...

6.3

123 votes

6.3

123 votes

The Amazing Doctor Clitterhouse

1938 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Claire Trevor · Humphrey Bogart · Allen Jenkins

Plot Dr. Clitterhouse is fascinated with the working of the criminal mind. His interest is so deep that he finds the best way to observe criminals in action is to become...

6.3

270 votes

6.3

270 votes

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

1952 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Gregory Peck · Ava Gardner · Susan Hayward · Hildegard Knef

Plot 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...

6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

I Can Get It for You Wholesale

1951 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Susan Hayward · Dan Dailey · George Sanders · Sam Jaffe

Plot A ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone in her way in order to reach the top of her profession. Eventually she is forced to choose between her ambition and the...

6.1

30 votes

6.1

30 votes

Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

1947 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Susan Hayward · Lee Bowman · Marsha Hunt · Eddie Albert

Plot Angie Evans, fast-rising nightclub singer, interrupts her career to marry struggling songwriter Ken Conway. When Ken lucks into a career as chart-topping radio crooner, Angie is forced into idle luxury...

6.1

184 votes

6.1

184 votes