Slim Keith and her then-husband, film producer Leland Hayward at an appearance at the Stork Club, in June 1949. Hayward eventually left Slim for her good 'friend', the infamous Pamela Digby Churchill, a woman considered a world's expert on rich men's bedroom ceilings. Slim said, many years later, that although she was devasted when Hayward dumped her, she still considered him the love of her life. Although married to a British aristocrat (who had given her the title of 'Lady Keith') at the time of Hayward's death she was quoted as saying, "In the end, when I lost Leland, I lost the best part of my life".