Leland Hayward (1902-1971)
Talent Agent & Broadway Producer
He was an agent to about 150 artists in Hollywood including Fred Astaire (his first client), James Stewart, Ernest Hemingway, Boris Karloff, Judy Garland, Ginger Rogers, as well as the two former husbands of his second wife Margaret Sullavan, Henry Fonda and William Wyler. He dated some of his female clients, including Greta Garbo and Katharine Hepburn (for three years). He produced the original Broadway stage productions of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific and The Sound of Music.
