Her final film role was in The Day of the Wolves (1971) and her final television role was in a 1974 episode of McCloud. At age 50, she retired from acting, although she later wrote the screenplay to the 1975 Western Rooster Cogburn, starring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn. Retirement and death Hyer enjoyed a quiet retirement through the 1980s and 1990s. She died on May 31, 2014, at the age of 89 from natural causes in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she had lived for many years. Selected filmography References External links 1924 births 2014 deaths Actresses from Texas American film actresses American television actresses Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) Northwestern University School of Communication alumni People from Fort Worth, Texas 20th-century American actresses Converts to Judaism from Methodism Jewish American actresses Jewish American writers Jewish women writers American women memoirists American memoirists 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American women