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Lydia Hayward (1879-1945) was a British screenwriter and actress who worked on over 30 screenplays between 1920 and 1942. She was particularly active during the 1920s. Hayward has been noted for several of the sophisticated comedy films she wrote for during the decade.
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The Bioscope(2 June 1927): 37. Collier, Lionel. “Screen Values.” Kinematograph Weekly(24 January 1924): 68. ------. Kinematograph Weekly(3 May 1928): 64. ------. “Reviews of the Week.” Kinematograph Weekly(17 January 1929): 53. Daily Chronicle(24 November 1926): n.p. Sidney Carroll 1926 Scrapbook. British Film Institute, Special Collections. Daily ...
A. Archival Filmography: Extant Film Titles: 1. Lydia Hayward as Scenario Writer (at Artistic, with director Manning Haynes and short story writer W.W. Jacobs) A Will and A Way. Dir.: Manning Haynes, prod.: George Redmond, sc.: Lydia Hayward from story by W.W. Jacobs (Artistic GB, TS. 1922; R. Jan. 1923) cas.: Johnny Butt, Cynthia Murtagh, Charles ...
Because the frequent delay between trade show and release dates was a serious impediment to the careers of film workers in the British film industry, and because Rachael Low, among the most comprehensive sources of credit information, uses trade show dates as closer to production date, I have listed first the trade show [TS] followed by the release...
Gledhill, Christine. "Lydia Hayward." In Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, and Monica Dall’Asta, eds. Women Film Pioneers Project. New York, NY: Columbia University Libraries, 2016.
Lydia Hayward—born in the last quarter of the nineteenth century in Sheffield, England, to a father in the entertainment business—started her career as a stage actress, but in her early forties switched careers to become a leading scriptwriter in the British film industry.
Née Lydia Elizabeth Hayward. Screenwriter. Married actors Bernard Foster in 1900, and William Freshman in 1938. Educated in France, Lydia Hayward commenced her screen career in 1918 and continued to write film scripts into the 1940s.
Feb 28, 2022 · Lydia Hayward is the subject of Bryony’s upcoming talk at the Hippodrome Silent Film Festival in Bo’ness, which will be followed by a screening of one of her films, The Boatswain’s Mate. There will also be a screening of the Hayward-scripted feature, Not for Sale.
Lydia Hayward was born in 1879 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was a writer and actress, known for Pillars of Society (1920), Love's Old Sweet Song (1933) and Confessions (1925). She was married to William Freshman and Belford Forrest. She died on 3 June 1945 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
British screenwriter Lydia Hayward could spin comedy gold out of any story and wrote dozens of screenplays in the 1920s. She was hailed in the film trade press as 'the finest scenario writer we have', but her fine reputation languishes forgotten with the films she worked on.
