In "Tiger By the Tail" (1970), she played a socialite whose Vietnam vet boyfriend recruits her to help find a killer, and in the tepid "The Harrad Experiment" (1973) she is mistress of an experimental sex school. She then starred opposite daughter Melanie Griffith under the direction of then-husband Noel Marshall in "Roar" (1981), a docudrama slanted around the preservation of African wild life. (Mother and daughter reunited for the tenant thriller "Pacific Heights", 1990).
In the 80s and 90s, Hedren appeared in the occasional TV project, but devoted the majority of her time to the Shambala Foundation in Antelope Valley, CA, a retirement facility for animal performers.