Susan Hayward as "Lana Turner" in "Where Love Has Gone"

Here's an excellent copy of this trashy soap! Enjoy...

There's an hilarious line of Hayward's that goes "When you're dying of thirst you'll drink from a mudhole!"

Heatherton was the poor man's Ann-Margret.

I should sue them all.

Heatherton was a poor man's Connie Stevens, too!

Well, Connie Stevens was a poor man's Sandra Dee!

Didn't Bette Davis hate this film and Susan Hayward and only made it to pay for BD's wedding?

Yes, Bette took this trash for the cash for trash daughter BD's wedding... no good deed goes unpunished!

Joey Heatherton liked a good man!

Newsweek wrote: "Bette Davis in 'Where Love Has Gone' sits in the ugliest chair in Hollywood and lowers her teacup and pronounces, 'Somewhere along the line the world has lost all its standards and all its taste.'"

Tim Barker in a very candid phone interview in which he trashes his mother Susan Hayward as an alcoholic pill-popping narcissist.

This film showed up in my youtube algorithm,

^^ that's the most revealing info about Hayward I've ever heard. Incest survivor, second husband was bleeding her dry, the second marriage typically reported as a happy one was disastrous (both drunks), etc What a life. No wonder Hayward played drunks on film so well.

Terrible interview.

Interviewer " Um, I have aspbergers, oh, um oooh, un huh..I'm uh doing this for my blog, um oooh, I um ooooo"

Susan Hayward was the poor man's Susan Hayward.

R13. aspie

Susan Hayward was the Brooklyn Bette Davis!

R10 thank you for sharing. He also says she was surrounded by gay men during the last years of her life

She was great in Modern Family!

Second husband. He was hot and looked like he could throw a mean one. He died while Hayward was filming The Honey Pot at Cinecitta. She flew home immediately. One wonders if some of her scenes were scrapped as a result..

Director Joseph Mankiewicz said in interviews that shooting The Honey Pot was a shitshow. Problems left and right including Hayward's departure.

Here's Hayward auditioning for Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" with Mike Connors!

The Conqueror killed so many of us.

Hayward always seemed like she smelled of perfume, cigarettes and old Kleenex, with maybe just a faint whiff of gin. Heavenly!

Bourbon, R23.

This was based on the Harold Robbins novel of the same name which yes, was a Roman a clef on Lana. I loved Harold Robbins books, especially as they became more sexually explicit in the 70s and 80s.

I watched it last night (thanks for the link R1!) Campy but somewhat boring because the Hayward character never really comes across as ruthlessly egocentric, which is what the story needs in order to be certified camp.

We were promised a sextape in that r10 interview!

Were there really sextapes that far back?

I know. I wanted to hear more about the sex tapes too. My bet is that they starred Suzie and Barker.

Susan Hayward at home:

What the hell do you want for dinner?

Who the hell is going to prepare it?

How the hell are you going to cook it?

Where the hell do you want to eat it?

Where Love Has Gone: Lana/Johnny/Cheryl with equal parts Mildred/Monty/Veda!

It's amusing that Hayward's son Tim reveals that she was mad as hell that Anna Magnani "stole" the Oscar from her for The Rose Tatoo. Suzie thought she had it wrapped up with I'll Cry Tomorrow.

The interviewer’s biggest L was not asking the son about Valley of the Dolls.

I never knew this film came from a Harold Robbins novel.

We still need a good treatment of the Johnny Stompanato murder.

I’d watch a whole Feud-like series on it.

Who would we cast today to play Mr. Stompanato?

Pre-movie cover...

Interesting that the original cover art didn't attempt to evoke Lana Turner when the book was so clearly based on her.

I'm sure they did what they did to avoid litigation, r37. The hardback had just the heart.

R14- I love 💕 Helen Lawson quotes because I’m a HUGE fan of hers.

She spoke very poorly of you, r39.

Bette fought with the producers over her gray wig.

She believed the vain character she was playing would have been coloring her hair.

There was only a nine year age difference between Hayward and Davis, so the producers insisted Bette wear the wig.

The end of that clip at R21 shows the beginning of one of the best scenes between Susan and Bette. Susan has a marvelous smirk on her face when Bette is telling her off.

The way Susan pronounces the word wrong shows her Brooklyn accent.

R21 That shouting from Susan reminded me off Shirley's shrill in Postcards From The Edge.

Presenter Jerry Lewis insisted that she take a second bow when she won her Oscar. Does anyone know what was exceptional about her, or her performance, that year? Jerry seemed a bit emotional about it.

From IMDB:

[Quote]At the last minute, the producers wanted to add a scene where Bette Davis' character goes insane and commits suicide. Davis refused, saying it was out of character for the role.

R45, Wasn’t that the year the show was running short and the producers told Jerry to stretch?

Could be based on this clip of Jerry ad-libbing.

R47 r48 You're right about Jerry Lewis having to af-lib. He explains how he made it happen.

The year Susan Hayward won for "I'll Fry Tomorrow!"

Hayward lost out to Anna Magnani the year she was nominated for I'll Cry Tomorrow.

I think at that point in time in Oscar history, Hayward was probably the biggest loser (most nominations without a win) in the acting categories. So there was a lot of collegial support when she finally took home Oscar that night in 1959.

I'm sure one of you bitches here will correct me if my statistics are wrong.

Did I misuse the term collegial?

If so, oh dear.

R52 yeah that was her fifth nom.

At least Cannes was kind to her for I'll Cry Tomorrow.

She wasn't going to win for ICT because of her godawful singing.