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Louis Hayward
Louis Charles Hayward (19 March 1909 – 21 February 1985) was a South African-born, British-American actor.
Louis Hayward was born in Johannesburg and raised in South Africa. However, he was educated in France and England, including Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, London.
Hayward spent some time managing a nightclub but wanted to act and bought into a stock company.
He became a protégé of Noël Coward and began appearing in London in plays such as Dracula and Another Language. He was in the Sir Gerald du Maurier stage play The Church Mouse.
Hayward started being cast in some British films of the early 1930s, such as Self Made Lady (1932) and The Man Outside (1933). He had the lead role in Chelsea Life (1933) and supporting parts in Sorrell and Son (1933), The Thirteenth Candle (1933) and I'll Stick to You (1933).
He appeared in a Coward musical, Conversation Piece (1934) and had the lead in The Love Test (1935), directed by Michael Powell.
Hayward performed on Broadway in 1935 with a production of Coward's Point Valaine working with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. The play, described as one of Coward's worst and poorly received critically and popularly, only ran for six weeks and was considered a failure, but Hayward won the Donaldson Award, a precursor to the Tony Awards
Consequently, he signed a four-picture contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He started at MGM with a supporting role in The Flame Within (1935), written and directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Ann Harding. Hayward followed that film with A Feather in Her Hat for Columbia, billed after Basil Rathbone. Back at MGM he had supporting parts in Absolute Quiet (1935) and Trouble for Two (1936).
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Louis Hayward
Louis Charles Hayward (19 March 1909 – 21 February 1985) was a South African-born, British-American actor.
Louis Hayward was born in Johannesburg and raised in South Africa. However, he was educated in France and England, including Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, London.
Hayward spent some time managing a nightclub but wanted to act and bought into a stock company.
He became a protégé of Noël Coward and began appearing in London in plays such as Dracula and Another Language. He was in the Sir Gerald du Maurier stage play The Church Mouse.
Hayward started being cast in some British films of the early 1930s, such as Self Made Lady (1932) and The Man Outside (1933). He had the lead role in Chelsea Life (1933) and supporting parts in Sorrell and Son (1933), The Thirteenth Candle (1933) and I'll Stick to You (1933).
He appeared in a Coward musical, Conversation Piece (1934) and had the lead in The Love Test (1935), directed by Michael Powell.
Hayward performed on Broadway in 1935 with a production of Coward's Point Valaine working with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. The play, described as one of Coward's worst and poorly received critically and popularly, only ran for six weeks and was considered a failure, but Hayward won the Donaldson Award, a precursor to the Tony Awards
Consequently, he signed a four-picture contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He started at MGM with a supporting role in The Flame Within (1935), written and directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Ann Harding. Hayward followed that film with A Feather in Her Hat for Columbia, billed after Basil Rathbone. Back at MGM he had supporting parts in Absolute Quiet (1935) and Trouble for Two (1936).
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