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Leland Hayward. Producer: Mister Roberts. 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. He died on 18 March 1971 in Yorktown ...
- September 13, 1902
- March 18, 1971
- 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...
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Leland Hayward (September 13, 1902 – March 18, 1971) was a Hollywood and Broadway agent and theatrical producer. He produced the original Broadway stage productions of Rodgers and Hammerstein 's South Pacific and The Sound of Music.
Mar 19, 1971 · YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N. Y., March 18—Leland Hayward, a multi‐talented entrepreneur of the theater world, died at his home here tonight after a long illness. He was 68 years old. Mr. Hayward's ...
Leland Hayward. Producer: Mister Roberts. 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).
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- Nebraska City, Nebraska, USA
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- Yorktown Heights, New York, USA
Haywire. (book) Haywire is a 1977 memoir by actress and writer Brooke Hayward (born 1937), [1] daughter of theatrical agent and producer Leland Hayward and actress Margaret Sullavan. [2] It is a #1 New York Times Best Seller [3] and was on the newspaper's list for 17 weeks. [4] In Haywire, Brooke details her experience of growing up immersed in ...
Leland Hayward was born in Nebraska City, Nebraska on September 13, 1902. His father, Colonel William Hayward, was a well-known lawyer who would eventually become his son’s personal attorney. His parents divorced several years later, both remarrying. Hayward studied at Princeton University, but dropped out after his first year.
