Leland Hayward Biography

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Leland Hayward (September 13, 1902 â?? March 18, 1971) was a popular, powerful and wealthy Hollywood and Broadway agent and theatrical producer.

Born in Nebraska City, Nebraska, Hayward is best remembered as the producer of the Broadway stage production of The Sound of Music.

He was married five times: first to Texas debutante Lola Gibbs. They divorced but married again years later. They divorced again and Hayward married talented stage and screen actress Margaret Sullavan, Nancy Keith/Slim Hawks and Pamela Digby Churchill (later Pamela Harriman). He fathered three children with Sullavan (Brooke b. July 5, 1937, Bridget b.1939 d.1960, and William b.1941), and was memorialized in daughter Brooke's family history written in 1976, entitled Haywire.

Hayward died in Yorktown Heights, New York in 1971.

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