[1][2] Her father, Frank Percy Moren, was an engineer and her mother, Maud Mauren (née Green), was a music teacher.

Her roles were varied - she managed the finances and budgets, ordered film stock, sourced actors, worked on costumes and make-up and picked locations for shooting.

[3] Hayward co-edited the first version of Rewi’s Last Stand (1925) with her husband, and edited and processed the footage for The Te Kooti Trail (1927).

[6] In 1943, Hayward's marriage ended in divorce; seven days later, her husband married Ramai Te Miha, who had been the star of their 1940 re-make of Rewi's Last Stand.

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision has researched her work and included her in newly written histories of film in the country.