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Hayward family. - Haywire

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The daughter of successful Hollywood agent and broadway producer Leland Hayward and actress Margaret Sullavan recalls the glamour, wealth, and talent that marked the lives of members of her extraordinary family and reveals the events that led to destroyed marriages, mental breakdown, and suicide.

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Praise for Brooke Haywards

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She has modeled and acted and written: she writes, in fact, marvelously. Haywire mesmerizes. May it cauterize as well.

The New York Times

An incredible achievement!

Lauren Bacall

One of those rare books which seem to alter your perception of things. It is specific and true in dealing with lives that might have served as models for Fitzgeralds fiction.

Mike Nichols

Brave, honest, intelligent and greatly moving.

Newsweek

Engrossing, intimate, moving. Brooke Hayward writes like an angel.

Cosmopolitan

FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION MARCH 2011 Copyright 1977 2011 by Brooke Hayward - photo 3

FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, MARCH 2011

Copyright 1977, 2011 by Brooke Hayward

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1977.

Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

Jovanna Ceccarelli: Excerpt from an interview with Margaret Sullavan and John Keating which appeared in Theatre Arts, February, 1960. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

Curtis Brown Ltd. on behalf of the Estate of Ogden Nash: Unpublished poem entitled So Red the Rose, However You Spell It. Reprinted from a letter written to Margaret Sullavan by Ogden Nash.

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., and Faber & Faber Ltd.: Excerpt from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock from Collected Poems 19091962 by T. S. Eliot.

Viking Penguin: Excerpt from Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans, copyright 1939 by Ludwig Bemelmans, renewed 1967 by Madeleine Bemelmans and Barbara Bemelmans Marciano.

All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

Mrs. Phyllis Cerf Wagner: Excerpt from a syndicated column written by Bennett Cerf.

The photographs on appears through the courtesy of John Engstead.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Hayward, Brooke.
Haywire.
I. Hayward family. I. Title.
PN2287.H377H3 792.0922[B] 7640989

eISBN: 978-0-307-74437-1

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Picture 4o JosieJohanna Mankiewicz Davis

Shortly after I began exploring my past, I wanted to stop. Josie made me continue. Halfway through, she was killed. Again I stopped. Someone told me, Do it for Josie. She believed in this. Go on. And so I did.

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For their time memories and love Id like to thank Jimmy Stewart Josh Logan - photo 6

For their time, memories, and love Id like to thank Jimmy Stewart, Josh Logan, John Swope, Martha Edens, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Peter Fonda, William Wyler, Billy Wilder, Nancy Keith, Diana Vreeland, Fredric and Florence March, Truman Capote, Millicent and Paul Osborn, Bill and Greta Wright, Sara Mankiewicz, Tom Mankiewicz, Bill Francisco, Peter Hunt, Charles and Ray Eames, Joseph Cotten, Hank Potter, George Cukor, Jules Stein, King Vidor, Swifty Lazar, George Axelrod, Kathleen Malley, Kenneth Wagg, my grandmother, and most of all my brother, Bill.

For holding my handand often forcibly placing it back on the typewriter keysI thank Buck Henry, Curtis Harrington, Luis Sanjurjo, and Toby Rafelson.

For her fine blue pencil, Carol Janeway. And for all this and much more, my editor and publisher, Bob Gottlieb.

BROOKE HAYWARD

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BUCK HENRY

Picture 8 t was in the early sixties when Brookes father, the film and theater producer, Leland Hayward, said to me, apropos of nothing in particular, Do you ever see those crazy kids of mine out there? By out there he meant of course Los Angeles for which he had an amiable contempt. Crazy kids referred to his children, Brooke and Bill, who were living on the coast and married with kids of their own.

I was working for Leland as a writer/performer on the American version of the British hit That Was The Week That Was or, as it was more affectionately known: TW3. I knew Leland slightly because he and my father were friendsthey were both part of a special (I thought) generation: theater-loving and, concomitantly, actress-loving New Yorkers, mens men who worked and played hard and knew famous people like Ernest Hemingway and Bert Lahr and ate well and frequently at those bastions of post-World War II privilege: 21, Toots Shors, and the Stork Club; unofficial members of what was then called New York Caf Society.

They also shared a love of flying and the beauty and wonder of airplanesmy father was an Air Corps officer in World War II (he loved it when matre ds snapped their fingers and ordered a table for the colonel) and belonged to semisecret organizations like the QBs (Quiet Birdmen)made up mostly of ex-military and successful businessmen who lobbied the government for the Air Corps which finally became the Air Force and who met every few months and talked about flying and got extremely drunk.

Leland produced the film The Spirit of Saint Louis, the story of Lindberghs famous flight in which his friend Jimmy Stewart played the lead despite being decades too old for the part.

Leland used the phrase those crazy kids of mine more than once in referring to Brooke and Bill. It was said with an offhand affection that maskedor tried to maskan irritation that he couldnt quite manage to hide. At least that was the way I heard it.

I assured him that indeed I did see them from time to time and that I didnt really think they were crazymaybe a touch eccentricbut after all this was the sixties in Los Angeles. Brooke was living with her second husband, Dennis Hopper, their daughter, Marin, and her two boys, Jeffrey and Willie Thomas, from a previous marriage.

What I didnt tell Leland was that I thought Brooke was the prettiest woman I had ever met and that I seized the opportunity whenever possible to be someplace that I thought she would be so that I could watch her animated, slightly mannered body language and listen to her uncanny, musical laugh.

I had never met Brookes mother, the actress Margaret Sullavan, but I had seen her in films and onstage and had heard nasty rumors about her death. Nor did I ever meet her sister, Bridget, about whom the same things were being said. I didnt really believe them because it seemed to me improbable that two such strikingly original and attractive women would have the need to depart so suddenly and leave so many broken hearts behind.

What did I know? I was an only child, had attended all-male schools, and had a mother who was a Christian Scientist.

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