Leland Hayward

b. 13 Sept 1902, Nebraska Town, Nebraska, USA, d. 18 March 1971, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA. For a few years Hayward worked well like a publicist with United Performers in Hollywood and was for a while at First Country wide where he added to screenplays. He also became an effective agent representing leading Hollywood stars. From the past due 40s he switched his interest and boundless energy and excitement to producing displays on Broadway. He was co-producer of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s South Pacific (1949), Irving Berlin’s Contact Me Madam (1950), Harold Rome’s Want You Were Right here (1952), and in 1959 Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim’s Gypsy and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Sound Of Music. Regardless of the success of most these shows, specifically the latter set, Hayward’s next display, Berlin’s Mr. Chief executive (1962), was unexpectedly unsatisfactory and he bowed from the theater. Concurrent along with his stage function, he had been energetic in movies and in the past due 50s created for Warner Bros. Mister Roberts (1955), that was unsuccessfully nominated to discover the best Picture Oscar, The Soul Of St. Louis (1957) as well as the Old Guy And THE OCEAN (1958). Hayward’s second wife was celebrity Margaret Sullavan with whom he previously a child, Brooke Hayward, who published a memoir from the family.