Claire Hagen WOODLAND HILLS, CA--Claire Hagen, wife and devoted partner of MST3K favorite Ross Hagen for more than four decades, succumbed to cancer here Dec. 3. Born Claire Lynne Poland, she was a model and budding actress using the name Claire Polanski when Hagen met her in the early 1960s. The two married in 1963. By the time she appeared in the movie in episode 202- THE SIDEHACKERS (insisting on keeping a role that a young actress named Goldie Hawn, who was an extra on the film, had wanted), she had shortened it to Claire Polan, a stage name she used on and off for years to come. But it was as Claire Hagen that she did most of her work: in addition to being life partners, Claire and Ross, as often as they could arrange it, were work partners, with Claire serving as producer, director and a number of other roles on many of Hagen's films. In a 2000 interview, she said their marriage was a success, in part, because the two made a point of "never taking anything for granted, ever. We respect each other."