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Smash Up: The Story of A Comeback
This is probably the most important movie of Susan Hayward's career. Susan was only considered as a supporting actress to Paramount's leading ladies before she broke away from the studio and made "Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman" with Walter Wagner's guidance. In the 1940's, when an actress approached 30 was considered an end of a career, Susan Hayward made a comeback. Susan Hayward was always the advisory to Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake and others. Susan Hayward's best parts before Smash-Up were "Adam Had Four Sons," and "Among The Living." Susan will keep you entertained throughout the whole movie. True, Lee Bowman's and Eddie Albert's performances were wooden but Susan makes up for the movie with her strong performance. Susan earned her first Oscar nomanitation with this movie. Susan Hayward never gave a bad performance. However, if you want to know what are the best Susan Hayward movies, here are my favorites: Adam Had Four Sons, Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman, My Foolish Heart, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, With a Song In My Heart, I'll Cry Tomorrow, I Want To Live, Back Street* my favorite, Say Goodbye to Maggie Cole. P.S. Valley of the Dolls was great with Susan's performance but her part was smaller compared to the rest. See my review for Valley of the Dolls. Write to amazon.com and demand more Susan Hayward movies on dvd. Enjoy.

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Susan Hayward in one of her finest films
One of Susan Hayward's greatest film performances, which netted her an Academy Award nomination in 1947. She plays Angelica Evans, an up-and-coming nightclub chanteuse who abandons her career to marry sweetheart Ken Conway (Lee Bowman) who becomes a big radio star. Angie soon grows weary of being "The Wife" and slowly rebels by turning to the bottle in a big way. Despite having a baby girl, Angie seems determined to continue her self-destructive lifestyle until Ken finally decides to file for divorce. Alone and without her beloved baby, Angie goes back to work...but how long until the bottle starts beckoning?... <
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>Susan Hayward delivers a very sympathetic portrait of Angie. This film was tailor-made for Hayward by her longtime producer-mentor Walter Wanger and contains some prime scenes, the big highlight perhaps being the ferocious catfight between Angie and Ken's smug assistant Martha (Marsha Hunt). Maybe director Mark Robson used this scene as the basis for the wig-ripping scene with Hayward and Patty Duke in VALLEY OF THE DOLLS several years later. <
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>Based on story co-written by famed Algonquin Round Table wit Dorothy Parker.

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She was a star before she was a star!Q
Just watch Susan Hayward in this one performance and it's all there-----she had it before this film (her first shot out of the box for a producer who couldn't get anyone to tackle the role---and she made it hers forever. If you're a Susan Hayward fan you know what it's like to be just that----forever. For the talent, the attitude, the independence, the fire, the passion, the dynamic sense of humor-----they're all there and remain in your memories of greatness for as long as film goes thur spockets. Susan Hayward was, is, and always will be "a movie star". Always.