Sara Haden

Sara Haden

  • Birthday: 1898-11-16
  • Deathday: 1981-09-15
  • Place of birth: Galveston, Texas, USA
  • Also know as: Catherine Haden

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sara Haden (born Catherine Haden, November 17, 1898 – September 15, 1981) was a character actress in Hollywood films of the 1930s through the 1950s and in television into the mid-1960s. She may be best remembered for appearing as Aunt Milly Forrest in thirteen entries in MGM's Andy Hardy film series. Haden first appeared on the stage in the early 1920s. As early as October 1920, she was appearing with Walter Hampden's acting troupe. Her Broadway debut came in Trigger (1927). She made her film debut in 1934 (one year after her mother's retirement) in the Katharine Hepburn vehicle Spitfire. Haden later became a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player in the late 1930s and had smallish roles in many of the studio's films, most notably in the Andy Hardy series starring Mickey Rooney, cast as the spinsterish Aunt Milly Forrest. Haden made her last film, Andy Hardy Comes Home, in 1958, but was active on television until a 1965 guest spot on Dr. Kildare. She was most notable for her stern, humorless characterisations such as a truant officer in Shirley Temple's Captain January (1936), but she also played the much-loved teacher Miss Pipps, who is unjustly fired in the Our Gang comedy Come Back, Miss Pipps (1941). Other films in which she appeared include Poor Little Rich Girl (1936), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), Woman of the Year (1942), and The Bishop's Wife (1947). Her television appearances include episodes of Climax!, Bourbon Street Beat, and Bonanza. She had a guest appearance on Perry Mason as Florence Harvey in the 1959 episode, "The Case of the Romantic Rogue". Haden played Dora Darling in My Favorite Martian, season 2 episode 28, "Once Upon a Martian's Mother's Day" in 1965. She was married to film actor Richard Abbott (born Seamon Vandenberg; 1899-1986) from 1921 until their divorce in 1948. Sara Haden died on September 15, 1981 at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, at age 82.

Filmography

Strictly Personal

1945

As Helen Matthews

Angel of Mercy

1939

As Clara Barton (uncredited)

Flag of Mercy

1942

As Clara Barton

She-Wolf of London

1946

As Martha Winthrop

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy

1946

As Milly Forrest

Laughing at Trouble

1936

As Mrs. Jennie Nevins

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

1944

As Milly Forrest

O'Shaughnessy's Boy

1935

As Aunt Martha

Mad Love

1935

As Marie

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

1941

As Milly Forrest

Anne of Green Gables

1934

As Mrs. Barry

The Great Rupert

1950

As Mrs.Katie Dingle

Captain January

1936

As Agatha Morgan

Betrayed Women

1955

As Head Guard Darcy

Under Cover of Night

1937

As Janet Griswald

Andy Hardy Comes Home

1958

As Milly Forrest

Magnificent Obsession

1935

As Mrs. Nancy Ashford

Half Angel

1936

As Henrietta Hargraves

Mr. Ace

1946

As Alma Rhodes

The Outlaw's Daughter

1954

As Mrs. Merril

The Crime of Dr. Forbes

1936

As Dr. Anna Burkhart

Think First

1939

As Policewoman

Can This Be Dixie?

1936

As Miss Beauregard Peachtree

Life Begins for Andy Hardy

1941

As Milly Forrest

Out West with the Hardys

1938

As Milly Forrest

Judge Hardy and Son

1939

As Milly Forrest

She Wouldn't Say Yes

1945

As Laura Pitts

Hat, Coat and Glove

1934

As The Secretary

The Big Cat

1949

As Mrs. Mary Cooper

Wagons West

1952

As Mrs. Cook

Little Miss Nobody

1936

As Mrs. Lewis

Andy Hardy's Double Life

1942

As Milly Forrest

The Courtship of Andy Hardy

1942

As Milly Forrest

Poor Little Rich Girl

1936

As Collins

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

1939

As Milly Forrest

Spitfire

1934

As Etta Dawson

The Hardys Ride High

1939

As Milly Forrest

Rachel and the Stranger

1948

As Mrs. Jackson

Rodeo

1952

As Agatha Cartwright

The Fountain

1934

As Sophie Van Leyden

The Life of Vergie Winters

1934

As Winnie Belle

Finishing School

1934

As Miss Fisher

The Bishop's Wife

1947

As Mildred Cassaway

The White Parade

1934

As Miss Harrington

A Family Affair

1937

As Milly Forrest

Barnacle Bill

1941

As Aunt Letty

The Trial of Mary Dugan

1941

As Miss Matthews

Above Suspicion

1943

As Aunt Hattie

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

1940

As Milly Forrest

Washington Melodrama

1941

As Harriet Harringan

You're Only Young Once

1937

As Milly Forrest

Tell No Tales

1939

As Miss Brendon

Four Girls in White

1939

As Miss Bennett

Music in the Air

1934

As Martha

Lost Angel

1943

As Rhoda Kitterick

Love Crazy

1941

As Miss Cecilia Landis

A Life of Her Own

1950

As Smitty

Remember?

1939

As Miss Wilson

Way Down East

1935

As Cordelia Peabody

Keeping Company

1940

As Mrs. Foster

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

1946

As Miss Dill

Roughshod

1949

As Ma Wyatt

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

1945

As Mrs. Bjornson

Bad Bascomb

1946

As Tillie Lovejoy

The Affairs of Martha

1942

As Mrs. Justin I. Peacock

Come Back, Miss Pipps

1941

As Miss Pipps (uncredited)

Woman of the Year

1942

As Matron

Somewhere I'll Find You

1942

As Miss Coulter

Affairs of a Gentleman

1934

As Frances Bennett - Gresham's Secretary

Best Foot Forward

1943

As Miss Talbert

The Youngest Profession

1943

As Sister Lassie

A Lion Is in the Streets

1953

As Lula May McManamee

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

1941

As Miss Rollo, Harry's Secretary

Hullabaloo

1940

As 'Sue' Merriweather

First Lady

1937

As Mrs. Mason

Reunion

1936

As Ellie

Boom Town

1940

As Miss Barnes

Broadway Rhythm

1944

As Miss Wynn (uncredited)

Thousands Cheer

1943

As Second Nurse in Frank Morgan Skit

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