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    Leland Hayward

    American talent agent and theatrical producer

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  1. New York: Former Ambassador Averell Harriman and Mrs. Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward, 51 year old widow of Broadway producer Leland Hayward, leave... Pamela Churchill Hayward rocked in hammock by her son Winston and his finacee Minnie D'Erlanger. | Location: Mount Kisko, New York, USA.

  2. New York: Former Ambassador Averell Harriman and Mrs. Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward, 51 year old widow of Broadway producer Leland Hayward, leave... Pamela and Leland Hayward watch William Hayward and Marilla Nelson as the yournger couple reheases for their wedding.

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    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...

  4. Pamela Churchill went on to strategically marry Broadway producer Leland Hayward, and after his death reunited with her old flame, Averill Harrimon, whose fortune set her up for life.

  5. 1964, Mrs Leland Hayward, better known as Pamela Churchill Harriman, who later became US Ambassador to France, at her antiques shop 'The Jansen Shop', New York City. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images

  6. Jun 12, 1983 · As Brooke Hayward recounted in "Haywire," Leland Hayward had escorted Pamela Churchill to the theater one night in New York at the insistence of his wife, Slim Hawks, who was away for...

  7. New York: Former Ambassador Averell Harriman and Mrs. Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward, 51 year old widow of Broadway producer Leland Hayward, leave... Pamela Churchill Hayward rocked in hammock by her son Winston and his finacee Minnie D'Erlanger. | Location: Mount Kisko, New York, USA.

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