RIP Roberta Haynes

Roberta Haynes, who starred opposite Gary Cooper in the South Pacific-set 1953 movie Return to Paradise, has died. She was 91. Haynes died in Delray Beach, Florida on April 4, 2019. Born Roberta Schack on August 19, 1927, in Wichita Falls, Texas, she and her family moved to Los Angeles when she was a child. She appeared on Broadway in 1950 in The Madwoman of Chaillot with John Carradine and then with Lee J. Cobb in The Fighter (1952), which took place in Mexico. In 1957, she starred on live television with Roger Moore in a Matinee Theatre adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and played a South Seas princess in the movie adventure Hell Ship Mutiny. Haynes guest-starred on TV shows including Climax!, Lawman, Johnny Staccato, The F.B.I. and Falcon Crest and appeared in such other films as Point Blank (1967), The Adventurers (1970), Pete 'n' Tillie (1972) and Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989). She worked at the Cinecitta film studio in Rome in the mid-1960s and as a vice president for television at 20th Century Fox in the '70s, and she went on to produce several telefilms. Haynes also was writing screenplays and pitching projects up until her death, Roberta played Polly in 1970’s “Valdez is Coming”.