Brooke Hayward
{{Short description|American actress}}
{{Use American English|date=July 2020}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Brooke Hayward
| image = Brooke Hayward (1961).jpg
| caption = Hayward in 1961
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birthyearandage|1937}}{{cite book|title= Dictionary of American Biography Supplement Six (1956–1960)|editor= John A. Garrity|date=1980|publisher= Charles Scribner's Sons|ISBN= 0-684-16226-1|page= 610}} (Margaret Sullavan)
| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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| alma_mater = Vassar College
| other_names = Brooke Hayward Duchin
| occupation = {{hlist|Actress}}
| years_active = 1961–1993
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Michael M. Thomas|1956|1960|end=divorced}}
- {{marriage|Dennis Hopper|1961|1969|end=divorced}}
- {{marriage|Peter Duchin|1985|2011|end=divorced}}
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| children = 3
| parents = Leland Hayward
Margaret Sullavan
| relatives = {{plainlist|
}}
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Brooke Hayward is an American actress. Her memoir, Haywire, was a best-seller.{{Cite news |date=17 July 1977 |title=Best Sellers |newspaper=The New York Times |pages=190}}
Early life and education
Born in Los Angeles in 1937, Hayward is the eldest of three children born to agent turned film, television, and stage producer Leland Hayward and actress Margaret Sullavan. Brooke Hayward is a great-granddaughter of Monroe Hayward, former U.S. Senator-elect from Nebraska, and the granddaughter of Colonel William Hayward, who led the United States' 369th Infantry Regiment, aka the "Harlem Hellfighters", the first regiment composed entirely of African-American soldiers during the First World War.{{Cite book|last1=Hayward|first1=Brooke|title=Haywire|year=1977|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|location=New York|pages=99–101 |isbn=9780394493251 |oclc=2425290}} She is also a descendant of Mayflower passenger William White, and Puritan colonist Robert Coe.{{Cite book|last1=Gardner Bartlett|first1=Joseph|title=Robert Coe, Puritan: His Ancestors and Descendants, 1340–1910, with Notices of Other Coe Families|year=1911|page=397}} Hayward had a younger sister, Bridget, who died of a drug overdose, and a brother, producer William Hayward III, known as "Bill Hayward", who died by suicide.{{cite news|title=Theater World Mourns Actress Margaret Sullavan|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2229&dat=19600103&id=J_4yAAAAIBAJ&pg=4093,232697|newspaper=Sunday Herald|page=C-7|date=January 3, 1960|access-date=March 23, 2014}}
When Hayward was seven years old, the family moved to a farm in Brookfield, Connecticut.{{Cite book|last1=Hayward|first1=Brooke|title=Haywire|year=1977|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|location=New York|page=112 |isbn=9780394493251 |oclc=2425290}} Hayward's parents divorced in April 1948.{{cite news|title=Margaret Sullavan Granted Divorce|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1873&dat=19480430&id=n_UnAAAAIBAJ&pg=5168,4458405|newspaper=Daytona Beach Morning Journal|page=11|date=April 20, 1948|access-date=March 23, 2014}} The following year, Hayward's father married Nancy "Slim" Hawks (later known as Slim Keith).{{cite news|title=Nancy Hawks Wed To Play Producer|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19490611&id=w8gwAAAAIBAJ&pg=1673,5997597|newspaper=Toledo Blade|page=3|date=June 11, 1949|access-date=March 23, 2014}} After his divorce from Slim Hawks, Leland Hayward married Pamela Harriman.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/06/world/pamela-harriman-is-dead-at-76-an-ardent-political-personality.html?pagewanted=1|title=Pamela Harriman Is Dead at 76|last=Berger|first=Marilyn|date=February 6, 1997|access-date=March 23, 2010| work=The New York Times}} Her mother married importer and producer Kenneth Wagg in 1950. Margaret Sullavan died of an accidental drug overdose on January 1, 1960.{{cite news|title=Margaret Sullavan Dies; Pills Blamed|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1665&dat=19600101&id=0QEaAAAAIBAJ&pg=2246,52628|newspaper=The Times-News|page=1|date=January 2, 1960|access-date=March 23, 2014}}{{cite news|title=Final Services Held For Margaret Sullavan|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19600105&id=qswpAAAAIBAJ&pg=5228,991248|newspaper=Ocala Star-Banner|page=12|date=January 5, 1960|access-date=March 23, 2014}} Nine months later, on October 17, 1960, Hayward's younger sister Bridget was found dead of a drug overdose in her apartment in New York City. Bridget left what was described as an "incoherent note", the contents of which never were made public.{{cite news|title=Star's Daughter Dead in Gotham|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19601019&id=wOhHAAAAIBAJ&pg=1075,1416075|newspaper=The Victoria Advocate|page=5|date=October 19, 1960|access-date=March 23, 2014}} Her death was ruled a suicide.{{cite news|last=Klemesrud|first=Judy |author1-link=Judy Lee Klemesrud|title='Haywire' - Or What It's Like with Everything And Nothing|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19770406&id=_HhPAAAAIBAJ&pg=6613,1280821|newspaper=Ocala Star-Banner|page=10-B|date=April 6, 1977|access-date=March 23, 2014}} Hayward's brother Bill died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on March 9, 2008.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/arts/22hayward.html|title=William Hayward. Film and Television Producer, Dies at 66 | work=The New York Times | date=March 22, 2008}}
Hayward attended Vassar College and studied acting with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio.{{Cite book|title=The Grove Book of Hollywood|year=2007|editor1-last=Silvester|editor1-first=Christopher|publisher=Grove Press|page=308|isbn=978-0-802-19549-4}}
Career
As a model, Hayward appeared on the August 15, 1959, cover of Vogue, shot by Horst P. Horst.{{cite web | url=https://www.vogue.com/article/dennis-hopper-brooke-hayward-book-mark-rozzo | title=Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward Didn't Just Live Thrilling, Dangerous Lives—They Also Helped Define 1960s Los Angeles|publisher = Vogue.com| date=May 4, 2022 }}
In May 1961, Hayward made her Broadway debut in the stage production of Mandingo opposite her future husband Dennis Hopper. She made her film debut that same year in Burt Balaban's Mad Dog Coll.{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/brooke-hayward/credits/142908/|title=Brooke Hayward|website=TVGuide.com|publisher=TV Guide|access-date=10 February 2020}} In one early episode of Bonanza ("The Storm", 1962), she played sea-ship captain's daughter Laura White. She delivered a memorable performance in the Twilight Zone episode "The Masks" in March 1964. Over the next 30 years, Hayward appeared in a handful of screen roles.
Throughout the 1960s, while married to actor, director, and photographer Dennis Hopper, Hayward took an active role in the contemporary art world, collecting works by such artists as Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, Frank Stella, and Roy Lichtenstein. She was also an avid collector of antiques from various periods and known for a highly idiosyncratic sense of design, as demonstrated by the house she shared with Hopper and their children, 1712 North Crescent Heights Boulevard in Los Angeles.{{cite web | url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/02/the-untold-story-of-brooke-hayward-and-dennis-hoppers-hollywood-home | title=The Untold Story of Brooke Hayward and Dennis Hopper's Hollywood Home | website=Vanity Fair | date=February 9, 2018 }}
In 1977, Hayward wrote the best-seller Haywire, a childhood memoir that expounded on her family, the mental breakdowns of her mother and sister, and her own personal demons.{{cite web|url=http://www.observer.com/2002/her-own-funeral|title=Her Own Funeral|last=DiGiacomo|first=Frank|author2=Traister, Rebecca|author3=Hancock, Noelle|author4=Grossman, Anna Jane|author5=Wolfe, Alexandra|date=December 15, 2002|publisher=observer.com|access-date=January 17, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007103911/http://www.observer.com/2002/her-own-funeral|archive-date=October 7, 2008|url-status=dead}} Her last screen appearance was in a small role in John Guare's 1993 film adaptation of Six Degrees of Separation, with Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland, and Will Smith.
Personal life
Hayward was married to Michael M. Thomas from July 1956 until their July 1960 divorce. They had two sons.{{Cite news |last=Seelye |first=Katharine Q. |date=2021-08-15 |title=Michael Thomas, Writer and Bête Noire of the Moneyed Class, Dies at 85 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/15/books/michael-thomas-dead.html |access-date=2024-01-06 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
Hayward met actor Dennis Hopper when they were both cast in Mandingo on Broadway in the spring of 1961. They were married in August 1961. They had a daughter, designer Marin Brooke Hopper, in June 1962 and together went on to be a force at the center of the creative scene in Los Angeles in the 1960s, collecting Pop art and enjoying a high degree of access to the worlds of contemporary art, rock music, and Hollywood. They separated in 1968 and divorced in 1969.{{Cite web|title=Marin Hopper|url=https://haywardluxury.com/pages/marin-hopper|access-date=2021-08-31|website=Hayward Luxury|language=en|archive-date=August 31, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831144033/https://haywardluxury.com/pages/marin-hopper|url-status=dead}} The story of Hayward and Hopper's marriage, along with their childhoods and later lives, was told by Mark Rozzo in the best-selling 2022 cultural history/biography Everybody Thought We Were Crazy.{{cite web | url=https://www.harpercollins.com/products/everybody-thought-we-were-crazy-mark-rozzo?variant=39651576053794 | title=Everybody Thought We Were Crazy }}
Hayward married Peter Duchin, the musician and orchestra leader, in 1985.{{Cite news |date=1985-12-26 |title=Peter Duchin Weds Brooke Hayward |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/26/style/peter-duchin-weds-brooke-hayward.html |access-date=2024-01-06 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} They divorced in 2008.
Hayward was Jane Fonda's best friend growing up. Fonda stated in 2017: "Unfortunately, we are no longer friends which makes me sad.""[https://www.janefonda.com/2017/11/giving-thanks/ GIVING THANKS]". www.janefonda.com. December 14, 2017.
Filmography
= Film =
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| 1961
|Elizabeth | |
| 1966
|{{N/a}} |Short |
| 1973
|Women's Club | |
| 1988
|Unauthorized Biography: Jane Fonda |{{N/a}} | rowspan="2" |Documentary |
| 1991
|Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper |{{N/a}} |
| 1993
|Connie | |
= Television =
| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year !Title !Role !Notes |
| 1961
|Mary |Season 1 Episode 13: "The Fix" |
| 1962
|Margie Graham |Season 10 Episode 17: "The Hold-Out" |
| 1962
|Laura White |Season 3 Episode 19: "The Storm" |
| 1963
|Barbara Simms |Season 2 Episode 8: "The Cadaver" |
| 1964
|Paula Harper |Season 5 Episode 25: "The Masks" |
| 1964
|Kate |Season 1 Episode 8: "Two of a Kind" |
Selected works
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References
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External links
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- [http://www.nypl.org/archives/4403 Brooke Hayward papers, 1911–1977], Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20141017112100/http://www.haywardluxury.com/familytree/ Hayward Family Tree] - Hayward Luxury
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Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:Actresses from Connecticut
Category:Actresses from Los Angeles
Category:American film actresses
Category:American stage actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:People from Litchfield County, Connecticut
Category:Vassar College alumni
Category:American women memoirists