Elizabeth Harrower (actress)

Elizabeth Louise Harrower (May 28, 1918 – December 10, 2003) was an American actress and television writer.

She found success in acting, including ten appearances on Dennis the Menace (mostly as Dennis' teacher, "Miss Perkins"), four appearances on Perry Mason (The Case of the Waylaid Wolf, The Case of the Lurid Letter), and two appearances on Gunsmoke as "Mrs. O'Roarke", among many other shows up until 1974. She appeared in such films as True Grit and The Sterile Cuckoo.^[1]

In the late 1970s, she served as head writer for the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives, where her daughter Susan was a cast member. She also wrote for The Young and the Restless^[2] in the 1980s and early 1990s. Her last writing stint was on the short-lived soap Generations in 1991. In 2003, Harrower played a drunken con artist, Charlotte Ramsey, on The Young and the Restless.

Elizabeth Harrowers roots are in the Kopp family from Germany, which hails from Oberemmel, a district of Konz (near Trier) in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.^[3] For many years, she and her mother lived in the Alvarado Terrace Historic District of Los Angeles In 1942, Harrower married Harry Seabold, an Air Force cadet whom she had met in fifth grade. Their daughter, actress Susan Seaforth Hayes, was born in 1943. The marriage ended in divorce. For many years, she and her daughter lived in the Alvarado Terrace Historic District of Los Angeles, where she was active with the Pico-Union community redevelopment project advisory committee.

Harrower died of cancer at age 85 in 2003 in Studio City, California.^[4]

• Elizabeth Harrower at IMDb