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- Birth nameJan Marie Smith
- Jan Haag was born on December 6, 1933 in Marysville, Washington, USA. She is known for Hurray for Hollywood (1977) and The Green Girl (2014). She was married to John Haag. She died on April 29, 2024 in Spokane, Washington, USA.
- SpouseJohn Haag (divorced)
- RelativesSuzanne Hawley(Niece or Nephew)
- In 1974, with $35,000 in start-up funds from the Rockefeller Foundation, Haag launched the Directing Workshop for Women with help from Tony Vellani, Joan Didion, Mathilde Krim, Eleanor Perry and others.
- In Los Angeles, Haag served as Film and Television Director for the John Tracy Clinic, where she directed a series of forty-two films, "Teaching Speech to the Profoundly Deaf," for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
- Haag's travel stories have appeared in four of the prize-winning Traveler's Tales series of books: India, A Woman's World, The Spiritual Gifts of Travel, and Spain.
- She was assigned to Paramount's Harold and Maude (1971), directed by Hal Ashby, then joined the AFI staff in 1971, and among her duties was to administer the nonprofit's film grant program funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
- Haag created 23 contemporary needlepoint canvases, working on some of these simultaneously, from 1975-2008. One took a decade to complete.
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