Leland Hayward
Leland Hayward ( * September 13, 1902 in Nebraska City, Nebraska, † March 18, 1971 in Yorktown Heights, New York) was an American theater and film producer and talent agent.
Life
Hayward is a Enjel the U.S. politician Monroe Leland Hayward. He broke his studies at Princeton University from, was subsequently engaged in different occupations and eventually became a talent agent in Hollywood. At the beginning of the 1940s, he supervised more than 150 people, including James Stewart and Fred Astaire.
In 1945 he sold his talent agency to act as producer for the theater on Broadway. Among his best known and most successful productions include South Pacific (1949 ), Call Me Madam (1950), Gypsy ( 1959 ) and The Sound of Music (1959). For the latter he received along with the other producers 1960 Tony Award for Best Musical. Some times he worked with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.
In the 1950s, he also turned to film production.
In 1956 he was for Mister Roberts, his first feature film as a producer, nominated for Best Picture for the Oscars in the category. Up to and including 1967 was followed by five more film productions.
Hayward was life married five times. From 1937 to 1947 he was married to actress Margaret Sullavan, along with they had three children. One of the children committed suicide. The daughter Brooke Hayward worked on the family history with the book Haywire that 1980 was also produced as a TV movie.