Career
Foreign over twenty years, he was director of Film Programs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Artist Haver started his search for the lost footage in 1982 after being approved by the Academy. He found the footage in the Sound Department storage facility at the Warner Brothers studios and restored the deleted scenes from the film.
These scenes, including two musical numbers, were cut by the studio shortly after its premiere due to distributor complaints about the film"s length.
Warner Brothers made the deletions without the cooperation of its director, George Cukor, and the scenes were lost for years, much to the disappointment of Garland fans and film historians. Because of the missing footage for the film, Haver used Cukor"s production stills to cover the missing footage.
The "restored" version of the film was screened at Radio City Music Hall on July 7, 1983 and was released nationwide. Haver was also involved with second audio commentary tracks for many Criterion Collection LaserDisc releases such as the original King Kong and The Wizard of Ounces
Haver died on May 18, 1993 from an Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome-related illness in a Culver City nursing home at the age of 54.