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1920-1995 [bulk 1920-1974] DLeland 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. Following a brief career as a journalist in New York, his interests led him to show business. After working as a press agent and then trying to launch a career as a film producer in the mid 1920s, Hayward found his way to the business side of the industry, working as an agent seeking properties for potential stage or film production. After working at an agency, Hayward set out on his own. In a story he always enjoyed telling, Hayward was dining with a nightclub owner who lamented the lack of first-class entertainment available. He said he would be willing to pay an enormous salary to an act like Fred and Adele Astaire if they would appear at his club. Hayward called the Astaires, related the offe
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Leland Hayward
American theatre agent and producer (1902–1971)
Leland Hayward (September 13, 1902 – March 18, 1971) was an American talent agent and theatrical producer. He was an agent to about 150 artists in Hollywood, and produced the original Broadway stage productions of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific and The Sound of Music.
Life and career
Hayward was born in Nebraska City, Nebraska, the grandson of Monroe Leland Hayward, a United States senator from Nebraska. His father, Colonel William Hayward, was a celebrated hero of the First World War who commanded the 369th Infantry 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, one of the wealthiest women in America at the time,[1] who later traded her Fifth Avenue mansion to Cartier for a perfectly matched strand of pearls.[1]
Hayward attended The Hotchkiss School and then studied at Princeton University, but dropped out. He took on a number of jobs
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William Hayward was born on March 27, 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA as William Leland Hayward III. He was in and out of mental institutions such as the Menninger Foundation during his life just like his sister. He produced Easy Rider (1969) in partnership with Peter Fonda and loved motorcycles for the rest of his life. Peter Fonda was the son of his mothers ex-husband, Henry Fonda. He also produced The Hired Hand (1971) and Blue City (1986). He was married to Fiona Lewis, Rita Marie Rosate and Marilla Nelson. William committed suicide in March 2008, by shooting himself in the heart. The family's dysfunctional life had been memorialized in daughter Brooke's memoir, Haywire. William L. Hayward, a lawyer and producer whose best-known films include "Haywire," a television movie based on a memoir by his sister Brooke about their charmed, tragic Hollywood family, was found dead on March 9, 2008 at his home in Castaic, Calif. He was 66. The cause was a self-in
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