64 Susan Hayward Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

Based on real events, I Want to Live is a drama film which revolves around the story of a prostitute and habitual criminal named Barbara Graham, who receives the death sentence after being convicted of murder. The film shows her struggles, as she is put through the justice system, while also claiming her innocence.

Paul Saxon falls in love with dress-shop owner, Rae Smith, but Paul’s abusive and alcoholic wife, Liz, who refuses to grant him divorce interferes and humiliates Rae. Later a drunken Liz causes a car crash that ends in tragedy leaving a heartbroken Rae mourning the loss of her beloved. 

The story is told in flashback through the eyes of Eloise Winters. The now alcoholic Eloise is trapped in an unhappy marriage and has a difficult relationship with her daughter. While she is contemplating divorcing her husband, she reminisces about her first true love with Walt Dreiser before the beginning of World War II.  

Beau, John and Digby are three adventurous and inseparable brothers who were adopted and raised by the wealthy Lady Brandon. All three of them join the French Foreign Legion, but things get complicated when John is separated from the other two. Beau and Digby are both put under the command of Sergeant Markoff, a sadistic and ruthless officer.

Based on a novel of the same name, this film revolves around the life of President Andrew Jackson, the seventh US President. The film follows his life from his early teenage years, when he meets and marries Rachel Donaldson Robards, to help her get out of a troubled marriage. This, however, leads to several controversies. 

William Thompson moves to a rural town in Georgia, with his wife Mary Elizabeth. However, they face various problems while adjusting to their new lifestyle. 

Night club singer, Angie Evans, marries struggling singer, Ken Conway, giving up her own career and becoming a mother. Ken achieves success and an insecure Angie resorts to alcoholism. When Ken has an affair with secretary Martha and asks for a divorce, Angie kidnaps their child, leading to harrowing consequences. 

Jennifer is a 300 year old witch living in the 20th century, who decides to torture a politician named Wallace Wooley, as he is a descendant of the very family that used to persecute witches centuries ago. Wallace is unhappily engaged, and Jennifer decides to make things even more miserable for him, by making him fall for her with the help of a love potion. However, things take a hilarious turn when she ends up taking the potion herself.

Bo Gillis, an honest but naive gubernatorial candidate marries Ada Dallas, whom he has met shortly before his election, eventually beginning their life as the state’s first couple. But very soon, Bo finds that he is being fully controlled by his corrupt campaign manager. Things become even more complicated when Ada makes it known that she wants to be named as the new lieutenant governor.

Publisher Lewis Venable wants to acquire some love letters between late poet, Jeffrey Ashton, and Juliana Bordereau. On learning Juliana is still alive, he takes up lodgings at her house. But things take a turn for the worse when he discovers Juliana’s schizophrenic granddaughter, Tina, is obsessed with Asthon, at times believing she is Juliana. 

The Dabneys, who are plantation owners in rural Mississippi, decide to remain neutral during the Civil War, but they find themselves caught in the crossfire. Hoab Dabney finds support from a local newspaperman named Keith Alexander, who eventually falls in love with Morna, Hoab’s daughter. However, Morna’s fiancé Clay, who is part of the Confederate Army, is planning to punish the citizens who has decided to stay neutral.

Don Stuart is a forest ranger who is in pursuit of a forest arsonist. Meanwhile, he also develops a romance with a socialite.

Set in 1847, during the Great Famine, the film revolves around Katie O’Neill, and her husband, who immigrates to a troubled South Africa, where the former runs into an old flame. 

When Adam Stoddard’s wife dies, it falls upon their governess Emile to mother his four children  and keep the family together. But soon Adam’s fortune is also lost and he has to send the boys to boarding school and Emile away. Years later, he recoups his financial standing and summons Emile, whom he has always loved. But by then, one of his sons has married a scheming woman.

Dr. Merek Vance, who has developed a serum to cure deafness, tries it on Emily Blair, who is rich but deaf. However, it doesn’t prove effective. Meanwhile, Emily’s sister Janice is having an affair with Emily’s fiancé, Jeff. Emily insists on trying Merek’s new serum, but falls in coma. Now, will Emily get over her deafness and marry the man she loves? 

Jane Hoyt reaches Hong Kong to rescue her thrill-seeking photojournalist husband Louis who has been captured by Communist China and is being held in a prison in Canton. She seeks the help of cunning shipping magnate Hank Lee and the two start falling in love.  

Comet Over Broadway is an American drama film which tells the story of Eve Appleton, who is the wife of a small-town garage owner, but hopes to become a theatrical star some day. When her husband is sent to prison for accidentally killing an actor, she decides to go away and pursue her dreams.   

A musical made during WWII to entertain troops, raise funds and boost morale. Silent Era-Star, Billy Webster is now a gateman at Paramount studios. However, his Navy serviceman son, Johnny, thinks he is a studio executive. As Johnny is arriving with his shipmates, to preserve his illusion, Billy takes help of studio switchboard-operator, Polly, to put up a show with Hollywood’s mega-stars.

Ronny Bowers is a saxophone player and singer, who wins a talent contest, after which he is signed to a ten-week contract with a film studio. On the first evening, he is supposed to go with actress Mona Marshall, the studio’s star, to a movie premiere. However, when she refuses, her boss sends Virginia, a double. The charade works and Ronny and Virginia begin to develop feelings for one another. However, when Mona reads about this in the newspaper, she forces the studio to end Ronny’s contract.   

Based on a best-selling novel, this musical drama film revolves around three young women, Anne, Neely and Jennifer, who are in the show business. The film chronicles their lives starting from their rise to fame, to their downfall. 

Paul Raden, mentally unstable identical twin brother of John, is kept in a room in their family mansion. John returns home after 25 years for father’s funeral, and is shocked to learn about Paul, who he thought was dead. Paul escapes while his caretaker is found strangled. After another similar death, the town’s people are terrified and suspect John as the murderer.   

I Thank a Fool is a crime drama mystery film, which tells the story of a doctor who is prosecuted for mercy killing by a district attorney. However, he also hires the same doctor to care for the victim's mentally-ill wife.

This adventure film takes us to 1907 in the Belgian Congo, where a missionary nurse, arrives to work for a missionary doctor. When she needs to attend to a local chief’s injured son, she asks a big-game hunter to accompany her, and the two eventually embark on a journey of adventure and romance. 

When an Army General is about to be appointed as the chairman of an atomic energy committee, a female tycoon is disappointed. Therefore, she invites the former to her country estate, in an attempt to entrap him as well as ruin his reputation. 

After a rancher’s family is massacred by a gang of outlaws, he decides to pay a team of convicts in order to take revenge against them. 

Paul Delville who is a professor at a Florida college, and his wife, are expecting visitors from Sweden, who are their former colleagues. However, they are surprised to see that their young and beautiful daughter Katrin has arrived alone. Things get even more complicated when Katrin announces that she wants Paul to have a baby with her, as she wishes an offspring with both brains and beauty.   

Six struggling young actors share an apartment to make their ends meet. Their landlady soon provides them a play that was left long ago by an evicted tenant. However, soon it turns out that he is now a successful theater producer and is trying to rewrite his first play. Therefore, when the young actors come to know about this, they try to sell his own play to him.

This romantic musical film tells the story of a songwriter who discovers that a nightclub singer has been stealing some of her hit songs. Despite this, she starts to develop feelings for him.

Campus Cinderella is a musical sports comedy short film which takes us to Darford College, where its President focuses on academics rather than sports. Things take a turn when The Board of Trustees threaten to fire him, if he doesn’t improve the college in the field of sports. In order to help her father, his daughter Marge tries to lure a star basketball player to their college. However, problem is that he fails to meet the academic requirements.