The was born into the most enviable of

circumstances--one of the three beautiful chil-

dren of charming, successful, beloved parents

living at the very center of the most glittering

life America had to offer. Who could have

ilnagined that this magical life would shatter,

so conclusively, so destructively?

In Haywire, the daughter of Leland Hay-

ward and Margaret Sullavan tells the story of

her extraordinary family: the aura of glamour

and extreme privilege that surrounded her

growing up--beauty, talent, money, grace, joy,

all in seemingly infinite supply--and the care-

lessness and emotional extravagance that were

all the while invisibly at work. Until, inevitably,

there were destroyed marriages, mental break-

down, tragic death; parents and children alike

crippled in crucial, Sometimes fatal ways.

Leland Hayward: he was the most color-

ful and dynamic of theatrical agents, "the Tos-

canini of the telcphone," making deals day and

night for his clicnts: Garbo, Hemingway, Judy

Garland, Billy Wildcr, Gregory Peck, Boris

Karloff, Lillian Hcl man, Dashiell Hammett,

Fred Astaire He was elegant, flamboyant,

magnetic--with a warm, uncomplicated zest

for a life charged with success and style.

Margaret Sullavan: she was a truc star of

both Hollywood and Broadway; a Superb ac-

tress; a spell-casting charmer, beautiful and

spirited. "If ever I ve known Someone who was

unique, itwas Maggie,"said Henry Fonda (they

married as kids, got unmarried, almost remar-

ried, raised their familics as Best Friends). She

loathed Hollywood and bungercd for simplic-

ity. Most of all, she was dctermined to bring up

her childrcn properly, private/y; she knew what

was right-for them, for Leland, for anyone

who Came uuder her spell.

And the children: attractive, intelligent,

adored; themselves iu thrall to the romance of