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15 November 1936 - 28 April 1949) (divorced) 3 children
Brooke, born July 5, 1937
Bridget (February 10, 1939 – October 1960)
William (March 27, 1941 - March 20, 2008)
Hayward married stage and screen actress Margaret Sullavan, formerly married to Henry Fonda, in 1936. They had three children: Brooke, born July 5, 1937, who was married to actor Dennis Hopper from 1961–69; Bridget (February 10, 1939 – October 1960), who committed suicide by overdose in October 1960, less than a year after her mother's death by overdose; and William, born March 27, 1941, who committed suicide March 20, 2008, by shooting himself in the heart. The family's dysfunctional life had been memorialized in daughter Brooke's memoir, Haywire. In Haywire, Brooke writes of a conversation she had with William in which he said if he ever committed suicide, he would do so by shooting himself in the heart