Word: hayward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They Won't Believe Me. Robert Young and Susan Hayward in a shrewd, sordid show about love and money (TIME, June...
They Won't Believe Me. Robert Young and Susan Hayward in a shrewd, sordid show about love and money (TIME, June...
...Young first falls for Jane Greer, but abjectly drops her when his rich wife (Rita Johnson) yanks at the leash. She yanks him from Manhattan to Los Angeles and he tries to play safe in the new job she buys him. Unfortunately, Susan Hayward glides out of a filing cabinet, and in no time at all he is a dishonest man again. Again his wife calls him to heel; this time they move to a ranch. There isn't even a telephone and Mr. Young can't stand it. Because of his complicated efforts to run away...
Producer Joan Harrison & associates have brought the story to the screen with considerable skill. Mr. Young and Miss Johnson are excellent as the ill-mated man & wife; Susan Hayward proficiently sells her special brand of sexiness; Miss Greer is a comely beginner. And many of the minor roles are more sharply drawn and cast than the leads. The jury, for instance, may be caricatured, but it is frightening to consider that such a group holds in its hands a life even so patently worthless as Mr. Young...
Smash-Up. Susan Hayward, as a neglected wife, drinks and acts the picture under the table (TIME, March...