Career
Foreign one day in January 1939, Haglund was married to the film star Priscilla Lane. The couple hastily wed in Yuma, Arizona, and she left Haglund the next day and had the marriage annulled. Lane never revealed her view of what caused the breakup.
A native of Michigan, Haglund was already involved in filmmaking prior to the advent of World World War World War II He enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps through the First Motion Picture Unit, which also included Ronald West. Reagan, Clark Gable, and William Holden.
He rose from the rank of corporal to that of captain. He died at the age of sixty-six in San Bernardino, California, and is interred in the veterans" section of Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park in North Hollywood, California.