Brooke Hayward (born July 5, 1937) is an American actress and writer.Born in Los Angeles, Hayward is the eldest, and only surviving, child from the marriage of former agent turned film, television, and stage producer Leland Hayward and actress Margaret Sullavan. Hayward's autobiography, Haywire, was based on her experiences as a child with two world-famous and iconic parents. Margaret Sullavan died of an accidental drug overdose on January 1, 1960, aged 50. Nine months after her mother's death, Hayward's sister Bridget, aged 21, was herself found dead from an overdose. Hayward's younger brother, Bill, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on March 9, 2008.Debuting in Burt Balaban's 1961 film, Mad Dog Coll, Hayward had a brief acting career. She made a memorable performance in the Twilight Zone episode "The Masks" in March 1964. Also, she played a seaship captain's daughter in one Bonanza episode. Over the next 30 years, Hayward appeared in a handful of screen roles. 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.In 1977, Hayward wrote Haywire, a childhood memoir that expounded on her family, the mental breakdown of her mother and sister, and her own personal demons.(this and more from Wikipedia --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_H... )
Daughter-in-law of Eddy Duchin , daughter of Margaret Sullavan and Leland Hayward.
Mother, with Dennis Hopper , of Marin Hopper.
Graduated Vassar College.
Stepdaughter of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman (aka Pamela Harriman ), who died as U.S. Ambassador to France.
Wrote a #1 bestseller in 1977 entitled "Haywire," a harrowing childhood memoir that expounded on the madness and suicide of her mother and sister, the mental breakdown of her brother, and her own personal demons.
Older stepsister of Winston Churchill.
Older sister of William Hayward and Bridget Hayward.
Mother-in-law of John Goldstone.
Childhood friend of Jane Fonda.
(May 2007) She and husband Peter Duchin are longtime residents of celebrity-studded Litchfield County, Connecticut.
Dated Warren Beatty.
The minute we moved in (1712 North Crescent Heights), Dennis Hopper decided to give a party for Andy (Warhol), who was coming out to Los Angeles, and he decided that the one thing that would really make the house stand out, fabulously, would be billboards. So he papered the downstairs bathrooms with billboards. He had also decided that the food at the party would be hot dogs and chili. So we had a hot-dog stand! And Dennis had found huge papier-mâché Mexican figures with firecrackers hanging on them.
I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth of my feeling for my mother, being too selfish to try when I should have.
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.
