Haywire
by Brooke Hayward
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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.Tags
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A fantastic look at the lives of actress Margaret Sullavan and agent Leland Hayward through the eyes of their eldest daughter.
Children of Hollywood couple go crazy
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
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
extraordinary people become terrible parents - cause their children much heartache and sorrow - they shouldn't have done it.
Excellent biography. Enjoyable read.
Great!
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Brooke Hayward was born into the most enviable of circumstances. The daughter of a famous actress and a successful Hollywood agent, she was beautiful, wealthy, and living at the very center of the most privileged life America had to offer. By the time she was twenty-three, her family was ripped apart. Who could have imagined that this magical life show more could have imagined that this magical life could shatter, so conclusively, so destructively? Brooke Hayward tells the riveting story of how her family went haywire. show less
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- Original publication date
- 1977
- People/Characters
- Brooke Hayward; Leland Hayward; Margaret Sullavan; Slim Keith
- Important places
- Connecticut, USA
- Dedication
- To Josie-Johanna Mankiewicz Davis. Shortly after I began exploring my past, I wanted to stop. Josie made me continue. Halfway through, she was killed. Again I was stopped. Someone told me, 'Do it for Josie. She believed in th... (show all)is. Go on.' And so I did.
- First words
- She had called me late the night before.
Introduction: This book is a personal memoir; but it is also a larger story-about carelessness and guilt, and the wreckage they can make of lives. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)So I started for the doorway and the dark corridor beyond, knowing, as I passed through it, that my only choice was to keep moving forward.
Classifications
- Genres
- Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 792.092 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Stage presentations modified standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography; Description, critical appraisal of specific theatres and companies Biography
- LCC
- PN2287 .H377 .H3 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Dramatic representation. The theater Special regions or countries
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 241
- Popularity
- 134,253
- Reviews
- 5
- Rating
- (3.85)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
- 6
