Death
Hackett died of ovarian cancer at Encino Hospital in California in 1983. Both of her parents as well as her former husband Richard Mulligan also died of cancer. She is interred in Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where her epitaph reads "Go Away—I'm Asleep", a reference to her love of beauty sleep.
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