death_date death_place birth_place name birth_date yearsactive article_title birth_name occupation
19 december 1969 van nuys , california , u.s. albany , new york , u.s. sara berner 12 january 1912 1936 -- 1969 sara berner
 lillian herdan actress/voice actress
sara berner

sara berner -lrb- january 12 , 1912 -- december 19 , 1969 -rrb- was an american film , television and radio actress .
her supporting roles included two for alfred hitchcock .
she played the upstairs neighbor in the 1954 feature `` rear window '' .
her final film role as the uncredited voice of a telephone operator in the 1959 film , `` north by northwest '' .
