The first of a two-part screen adaptation of BROOKE HAYWARD 's best-selling memoirs starring
' My mother was a star, Margaret Sullavan, a shining idol of her generation. My father was Leland Hayward, a producer, agent, rich, glamorous legend himself. They were happily married for ten years, had three children in even succession ... This is a story of carelesseness and guilt; of people who have lived at extremes. My parents failed as they succeeded - on a massive scale. They left behind them a legacy, vested in their children, that only two of us survived.'
Screenplay by IVAN DAVIS and FRANK PIERSON Produced by WILLIAM HAYWARD Directed by MICHAEL TUCHNER