Lillie Hayward

Who was Lillie Hayward?

Lillie Hayward was an American film actress and later screenwriter whose Hollywood career began during the silent era and continued well into the age of television . She wrote for over 70 films and TV shows including the Disney film The Shaggy Dog and television series The Mickey Mouse Club and Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. She was also remembered for the films Her Husband's Secretary and Aloma of the South Seas, the latter written in part with the help of her sister, actress and screenwriter Seena Owen Lillie Hayward died in 1977 and was interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. She was survived by her husband of seventeen years, Jerry Sackheim, also a Hollywood writer whom she had worked with on The Boy and The Pirates.