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Leland Hayward was born on 13 September 1902 in Nebraska City, Nebraska, USA. He was a producer and production manager, known for Mister Roberts (1955), The Sound of Music (1965) and A Shot in the Dark (1964). He was married to Pamela Harriman, Mary Raye "Nancy" Gross, Margaret Sullavan and Inez (Lola) Gibbs.
- January 1, 1
- Nebraska City, Nebraska, USA
- January 1, 1
- Yorktown Heights, New York, USA
- Hollywood Agent
- Hollywood Producers' Non-Raiding Agreement
- Stage and Movie Producer
- Aviation
- Personal
He went to the Broadway theater where Fred and Adele Astaire were currently playing in 'Lady Be Good' and recruited the famous couple for a 12 week engagement. It was a lucrative deal, not just for the Astaires, but for Hayward too, and he decided to pursue this new career. It was a propitious time to become a talent agent. The film industry was bo...
Hayward and Selznick did not subscribe to this and went to different studios offering deals for their clients which caused salaries to be increased across the board through healthy competition. As a result, raids on the talent of competing studios became commonplace and Hayward became very unpopular amongst some of the Hollywood power brokers, in p...
He had immediate success, with his first production, 'A Bell for Adano' running from December, 1944 to October, 1945, and in November,1945 he followed it with the Pulitzer Prize-winning 'State of the Union'. In 1948 he produced 'Mister Roberts' on Broadway, starring his old client, Henry Fonda. Hayward won the 1948 Tony Award as Best Producer and i...
True to form Hayward could not resist going into the aviation business. He did so just before the start of WWII, partly with his own money and partly with funds supplied by his wealthy clients. He bought a small flying school near Phoenix, Arizona and succeeded in obtaining a lucrative Government contract to train U S Army pilots. By the end of the...
Hayward was married in all five times. His first wife was Inez Gibbs, whom he married in 1921, divorced in 1924, remarried in 1930 and divorced for a second time in 1934. The actress, Margaret Sullavan, his second wife, was the mother of his three children, Brooke, Bridget and William. Hayward and Margaret married in 1936 and divorced 13 years late...
Aug 31, 2023 · Hayward was married five times, including the ex-wives of Henry Fonda and Howard Hawks. After suffering several strokes, Hayward died at his home, Haywire, in Yorktown Heights, New York on March 18, 1971.
- September 13, 1902
- Nebraska City, NE, United States
Feb 2, 2024 · Hayward and Keith married in 1949 at the Paley’s Long Island home before moving to New York, where they would remain throughout their marriage. Reflecting on their time together, Keith firmly ...
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Leland divorced Slim and got married for the third time, to political activist Pamela Harriman. Brooke lost her mother to an accidental drug overdose on January 1, 1960. Nine months later, Bridget committed suicide by consuming drugs in her apartment in New York City.
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