54 Facts About Roberta Haynes

Roberta Haynes was born Roberta Arline Schack in Wichita Falls, Texas on August 19,1927, to William Schack and Jewel Eichel Schack.

Roberta Haynes's parents were both originally from New York City.

Roberta Haynes's mother had been a dancer with a Shubert road company and an Eddie Cantor revue.

Roberta Haynes's father was an electrical engineer; in 1930 he took a job with the Canada Electric Company in Toronto.

Roberta Haynes attended John Burroughs Junior High School thru 1942, where the yearbook listed her desired occupation as "actress".

Roberta Haynes took dancing lessons from an early age, studied with drama coach Grace Bowman, and performed in variety shows for charity.

Roberta Haynes then went to North Hollywood High School where as a senior she played a 19th Century California senorita in a student stage production.

Roberta Haynes's first known professional credit as "Roberta Haynes" came in February 1947, with her casting in a production of Charley's Aunt.

Roberta Haynes's next known performance was an original play by John Bright called City of Angels, which premiered at the Musart Theater in June 1948.

Roberta Haynes next known stage credit was for Elaine Ryan's adaption of Bemelmans' 1943 novel Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep.

Roberta Haynes went to New York City in September 1949 to make an episode of a combined radio and TV show, Starring Boris Karloff.

Roberta Haynes's character had the only romance in the story, with "Pierre the Architect".

Roberta Haynes had clearly established herself as a stage actress with this long tour.

Roberta Haynes did another episode of the former in January 1951.

Roberta Haynes appeared as the daughter in a barebones version of Tartuffe, the Imposter during May 1951.

Roberta Haynes was signed for the cast of High Noon in early September 1951.

Roberta Haynes would spend a month in the small village of Matautu, Lefaga before the rest of the Hollywood cast and crew arrived, to soak up local customs, speech patterns, and ways of moving.

Roberta Haynes would spend four and half months in Samoa making the film.

Roberta Haynes wrote occasional letters back home from which her mother fed snippets to the local papers, and even spoke with her parents via short-wave radio courtesy of a neighboring ham.

Roberta Haynes wrote an article for Jimmie Fidler's syndicated column about her experiences and the film company's progress in making the movie.

Howard McClay wrote Roberta Haynes "brings a warm, almost childlike quality to a role that could easily have been overdone in less understanding hands".

Roberta Haynes told her side of the story to journalist Aline Mosby in a later interview carried by UPI.

Roberta Haynes was given five screen tests for the part that eventually went to Donna Reed.

Roberta Haynes was then said to be set for a 3-D remake of Golden Boy called Strong Arm, which would co-star Broderick Crawford and John Derek, but the project was abandoned.

Roberta Haynes learned from the newspapers that she had been assigned a role with Rock Hudson in a 3-D western called Gun Fury.

Roberta Haynes would have top billing with Phil Carey, who had been on Gun Fury.

Roberta Haynes forgo a settlement and was released from her contract at the end of September 1953.

Roberta Haynes made the second of two appearances on Juke Box Jury for 1953 at the end of October.

For some time snippets had appeared in newspapers that Roberta Haynes was learning Italian in preparation for making films abroad.

When Roberta Haynes returned to Hollywood in January 1954, she gave a candid interview about the trip.

In late May 1954 Roberta Haynes sailed from New York City to Le Havre for a year's stay abroad.

Roberta Haynes's parents informed the local paper she would be doing some television in Paris, and later going to Rome for a new film.

Roberta Haynes was reported to have signed in February 1955 for a film to be called Bombay Flight.

Roberta Haynes is credited on IMDb with a 1955 Franco-Italian film called Tua per la vita, for which she was either a very minor actor or possibly provided English dialogue.

Roberta Haynes did one episode of the syndicated series Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion while in Italy.

Roberta Haynes returned to Paris in June 1955, to make an episode of the television series Sherlock Holmes.

Hall and Roberta Haynes visited Allentown, Pennsylvania in March 1956 for a department store opening and to promote the new series.

Roberta Haynes pretended to not know English, while Hall introduced her as a Parisian starlet and translated for her.

Roberta Haynes appeared on a local primetime quiz show Mr Genius during January 1956.

Roberta Haynes did another Matinee Theater in March 1958, and an episode of United States Steel Hour in early June.

Roberta Haynes appeared in Look Back in Anger at the Laguna Beach Playhouse, with Don Harron, Marcia Henderson, Michael Gibson, and Nelson Welch.

Roberta Haynes had episodes of five series broadcast in 1960, all within the first three months.

Roberta Haynes guest-starred in The Man and the Challenge, Lawman, The Rebel, Hawaiian Eye, and Johnny Staccato.

Roberta Haynes's first known performing credit in eight years was a cameo in the film Point Blank, released in October 1967.

Roberta Haynes served as a dialogue coach for the Franco-Italian The Thirteen Chairs in 1969, and did minor bits in four films over the next three years: The Adventurers, The Martlet's Tale, Valdez Is Coming, and Pete 'n' Tillie.

Roberta Haynes's final acting roles on television were all minor bits, including a TV movie The Rules of Marriage and the series Falcon Crest in 1982, and episodes of Knots Landing and Knight Rider in 1986.

Roberta Haynes's final performing credit was for the 1989 film Police Academy 6: City Under Siege.

Roberta Haynes was allergic to nuts; upon return from Samoa in September 1952 she had dinner at a Chinese restaurant in Waikiki with other members of the film company.

Roberta Haynes suffered an allergic reaction, began convulsing, and had to spend the night in a hospital emergency room.

Roberta Haynes recovered quickly and was able to fly to Los Angeles the next day.

Roberta Haynes had an on-again, off-again romance with Marlon Brando during the early 1950s.

Columnist Lee Berg described her in an interview: "Roberta Haynes is a tense, enigmatic young lady, who conceals her drive behind a placid exterior and a gentle voice that is almost a whisper".

Roberta Haynes added that she lived by herself in a modest Hollywood apartment, did her own housekeeping and cooking, loved coffee, and dressed more for comfort than style.

Roberta Haynes died on April 4,2019, in Delray Beach, Florida at the age of 91.