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With Susan Hayward

posted 12 years ago by backstreet13
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Just read this:

The story line with SUSAN HAYWARD is the same as the story line in the movie with Lana Turner & John Forsythe. SUSAN HAYWARD just plays the part of Madame X so very much better.

Also, can anyone tell me where I can find the movie with Susan Hayward - don't need fancy boxes or pictures, it's just my favorite movie of all time. Just a plain VCR copy would be great - but I am beginning to believe I will never get to see the movie again. I have run out of places to look for it. Please help!

I last saw Madame X w/ Susan Hayward in the early '80's on TV. A girl from work and I watched it together. Also, a lady in NC that owns a video store remembered seeing this movie, and said she would try to obtain a copy, but so far has had no luck. Several people have e-mailed that they saw the movie and would also like to see it again if I found the movie. Wish I could remember the co-star - but I do remember that he looked remarkably like John Forsythe. The only color in the movie came at the beginning, when the announcer, a man, says something like..."known only as MADAME X" - the title "MADAME X" came on the screen in red letters. I had hoped someone with a VCR had recorded the movie and would part with it or allow a copy to be made from it. Thanks for any help!

To my knowledge, this doesn't exist. However, there were several people who claimed that they had also seen it and a few even owned the film. Any idea which film they were talking about?

[–] phillindholm 12 years ago

Just Read THIS: Susan Hayward never played ''Madame X''. In 1981, it was remade for Television, with Tuesday Weld in the title role.

[–] ready4fun01 8 years ago

I read THAT. However, I am doing research for a friend who ALSO saw someone else (not Tuesday Weld, Lana Turner, Gladys George, or Ruth Chatterton) in the title role with the same plot--and someone "like Spencer Tracy" in the role of the father. She thinks the title of THAT film was "The Mysterious Madame X," and she quite vividly remembers seeing it in black-and-white on a color TV in the early 1970s, with the cast dressed (in the final scenes) in fashions of the 1950s. I would discount this and write it off as a strange convolution of memory (goodness knows I've had a couple of those, myself)...except for the added bonus that her sister also remembers seeing the same film when it was replayed a few days later--and the two of them were not together when either one of them viewed it. Both of them remember the payoff line at the end being different from that in any of the three versions listed here, something resembling, "I don't know why, but I loved her like a mother"--"mother" being the specific word used, which appears in none of the first three listed here at IMDB...and the line apparently being delivered in the courtroom, which was, in this version, the scene of Madame X's collapse. (Can't comment on the Tuesday Weld 1981 made-for-TV version, but that would have been after the time that these two sisters viewed the film.) Of course, IMDB shows no other remake of this plot, by the name "Madame X," "The Mysterious Madame X," or anything like it...so I'm as stumped as the person who remembers Susan Hayward in the title role. Any help, anyone?