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American actress and television writer

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

Harrower was born during World War I in Alameda, California, during the great flu epidemic.

Harrower went on to find success in television, 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 made her film debut in Becky Sharp (1935). She also appeared in other movies, including 1969's True Grit and The Sterile Cuckoo. 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 in the 1980s and early 1990s. Her last writing stint was on the short lived soap Generations in 1991. In 2003, Harrower received rave reviews for her performance as a drunken con artist on The Young and the Restless.

In 1942, Harrower married Harry Seabold, an Air Force cadet 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. In 2003, in Studio City, California, Harrower died of cancer at age 85.

Year Title Role Notes1949 The Pilgrimage Play Woman of Samaria 1952 Plymouth Adventure Elizabeth Hopkins Uncredited1954 Thunder Pass Mrs. Hemp 1958 Teacher's Pet Clara Dibney Uncredited1958 Marjorie Morningstar Miss Kimble Uncredited1959 Al Capone Proprietress Uncredited1959 The FBI Story Clerk Uncredited1960 I Passed for White Minor Role Uncredited1962 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse French Prisoner Uncredited1962 House of Women Mrs. Potter Uncredited1962 Don't Knock the Twist Ruth Emerson 1962 The Wild Westerners Martha Bernard 1965 Zebra in the Kitchen Town Gossip Uncredited1965 Cat Ballou Minor Role Uncredited1966 Batman Picnicking Woman Uncredited1969 True Grit Mrs. Ross 1969 The Sterile Cuckoo Landlady Uncredited1971 Escape from the Planet of the Apes Reporter at Hotel Uncredited1971 Shoot Out Housekeeper Uncredited1974 I Love You Good bye Mrs. Freeman