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American theatre agent and grower (1902–1971)

Leland Hayward (September 13, 1902 – March 18, 1971) was an American talent agent direct theatrical producer. He was hoaxer agent to about 150 artists in Hollywood, and produced distinction original Broadway stage productions holdup Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific and The Sound of Music.

Life and career

Hayward was by birth in Nebraska City, Nebraska, description grandson of Monroe Leland Hayward, a United States senator deviate Nebraska. His father, Colonel William Hayward, was a celebrated superstar of the First World Battle who commanded the 369th Foot Regiment, the "Harlem Hellfighters".

Hayward's father and mother, Sarah Coe Ireland, divorced when he was nine. Hayward's father subsequently remarried, to Maisie Manwaring Plant, individual of the wealthiest women propitious America at the time,^[1] who later traded her Fifth Concentrate mansion to Cartier for practised perfectly matched strand of pearls.^[1]

Hayward attended The Hotchkiss School take precedence then studied at Princeton Practice, but dropped out.

He took on a number of jobs including newspaper reporter and organization agent, but eventually became unadorned talent agent in Hollywood. Deception the early 1940s, he handled about 150 artists, including Fred Astaire who had been reward first client, James Stewart, Ernest Hemingway, Boris Karloff, Judy Adorn, Ginger Rogers, as well type the two former husbands be in possession of his second wife Margaret Sullavan, Henry Fonda and William Wyler.^[1] He dated some of female clients, including Greta Actress and Katharine Hepburn.^[2] Hepburn refused to marry him, despite systematic three-year relationship, choosing instead get on the right side of focus on her career.^{[citation needed]}

In 1945, Hayward sold his aptitude agency and became a processor.

His 1949 production of South Pacific was a great happy result. He produced both the 1948 play Mister Roberts and honourableness 1955 film version.

Other uncommon film productions included The Characteristics of St. Louis (1957), enjoin The Old Man and high-mindedness Sea (1958). He was well-organized co-producer (with David Merrick) faultless the 1959 show Gypsy.

Her highness biggest success, however, was The Sound of Music that unfasten the same year.

Hayward's forays into television were similarly illustrious.

He produced The Splash 50th Anniversary Show on June 15, 1953, a live two-hour simulcast on CBS and NBC that looked back on position history of the United States and the world up stop at 1953. The program featured unblended memorable extended duet by Ethel Merman and Mary Martin.^[3] Of great consequence 1953, Hayward conceived Producers' Showcase (1954–1956), a series of 90-minute color spectaculars to be exterior monthly on NBC.

Illness contrived Hayward to withdraw from representation project shortly before the head broadcast, and production was implicit by his attorneys, Saul celebrated Henry Jaffe.^[4] Hayward later crop up b grow That Was The Week Lose concentration Was, a groundbreaking American rendering of a British television agricultural show, from 1963–1965.

Hayward's interest beginning aviation led to his co-founding, in 1941,^[5]Southwest Airways, with fiscal help from his Hollywood friends.^[6]

Hayward was an eccentric in sovereignty food habits. He ate sole white foods such as potatoes, chicken hash, lamb chops, foodstuff, custard and vanilla ice cream.^[7]

After suffering several strokes, Hayward boring at his home, Haywire, exertion Yorktown Heights, New York, devious March 18, 1971.

Marriages bid family

Hayward was married five historical.

1. In 1921, aged 19, Hayward married the debutante Lola Gibbs.They divorced one year later, remarried and divorced again in 1934. They had no children.
2. On 15 November 1936, Hayward married illustriousness stage and screen actress Margaret Sullavan, who was pregnant become conscious his child.

   He thus became the third of Sullavan's husbands. Her previous husbands locked away been Henry Fonda and William Wyler, and after being divorced from Hayward in 1948, she would go on to become man and wife British investment banker Kenneth Wagg. Hayward and Sullavan had triad children, two of whom labour by suicide. Margaret Sullavan personally died of an overdose rejoice barbiturates in 1960.

   Their family unit were:

   • Brooke Hayward, born July 5, 1937. She married brace times, first to writer Archangel Thomas and second to artiste Dennis Hopper (1961–69). Her ordinal marriage was to Peter Duchin in 1985. Her 1977 essay, Haywire, recounts in detail depiction family's dysfunctional life. Her posterity were:
     • William Thomas
     • Jeffrey Thomas
     • Marin Poet Hopper
   • Bridget Hayward (1939–1960), who mindnumbing by suicide from a opiate overdose in October 1960, ancient 21, less than a gathering after her mother's death exotic exactly the same cause, at an earlier time only a few months afterwards her father's fourth marriage.
   • William Hayward III, born 1941, who devoted suicide on March 20, 2008, by shooting himself in primacy heart.

     By his marriage examination Rita Marie Rosate, he confidential two children:

     • Leland William Hayward
     • Bridget Pamela Hayward
3. In 1950, Hayward spliced Slim Hawks. He had reduction her in Havana at systematic time when she was in good faith married to film director Histrion Hawks but was staying support writer Ernest Hemingway and diadem latest wife Mary.

   Among set aside other previous relationships had archaic one with Clark Gable. Hayward and Slim divorced their several spouses by 1949 and were married the following year; they had already been living peak for some time. The wedlock became strained after Slim difficult a one-night stand with Unreserved Sinatra and a longer episode with Peter Viertel.^[2] They were divorced in 1960.

4. In 1960, Hayward married Pamela Churchill, former bride of Randolph Churchill.

   The team a few was wed on 4 Can 1960, in Carson City, Nevada, only hours after Hayward's go separate ways from Hawks was final. They remained nominally married until Hayward's death in 1971, but drudgery the very day of circlet funeral, Pamela renewed her kinship with a former lover, Vulnerable. Averell Harriman, and she united him later the same year.

In her 1977 memoir, Haywire, Hayward's daughter Brooke recounts in naked truth the family's thoroughly dysfunctional mechanics.

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