Wednesday
Jun282017
Susan Hayward in "My Foolish Heart"
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 9:47PM SUSAN HAYWARD CENTENNIAL WEEK
by Timothy Brayton
Yesterday, Eric did an extraordinary job of tackling Susan Hayward's performance in I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955), which I think a lot of us might agree was her all-time best performance. Today, I'd like to offer up what I consider to be her most Susan Haywardiest performance: as the good girl-turned-wretched alcoholic in 1949's My Foolish Heart, the film that netted Hayward the second of her five Oscar nominations.
It's a story tailored with laser focus on letting the lead actress show off Everything with a capital "E"...