Lydia Hayward

Lydia Hayward was a British screenwriter and actress who worked on over thirty screenplays between 1920 and 1942. She was particularly active during the 1920s.^[1] Hayward has been noted for several of the sophisticated comedy films she wrote for during the decade. She was married to the director Manning Haynes with whom she frequently collaborated, as well as Australian actor William Freshman

Selected filmography

• Pillars of Society (1920)
• Three Men in a Boat (1920)
• Monty Works the Wires (1921)
• The Skipper's Wooing (1922)
• The Head of the Family (1922)
• Not for Sale (1924)
• Dixon's Return (1924)
• We Women (1925)
• Confessions (1925)
• The Gold Cure (1925)
• Carry On (1927)
• Passion Island (1927)
• Somehow Good (1927)
• The Ware Case (1928)
• A Peep Behind the Scenes (1929)
• Bitter Sweet (1933)
• The Missing People (1940)
• You Will Remember (1941)
• Hard Steel (1942)

References

Bibliography

• Low, Rachel. The History of British Film: Volume IV, 1918–1929. Routledge, 1997.
• Nelmes, Jill. Analysing the Screenplay. Taylor & Francis, 2011.
• Hunter, I.Q. & Porter, Laraine. British Comedy Cinema. Routledge, 2012.

External links

• Lydia Hayward at the Internet Movie Database