Sara Haden

Known For: Acting
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: November 16, 1898
Day of Death: September 15, 1981 (83 years old)
Place of Birth: Galveston, Texas, USA
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.
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Actor Miss Pipps (uncredited)
Come Back, Miss Pipps

Actor Miss Cecilia Landis
Love Crazy

Actor Milly Forrest
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

Actor Milly Forrest
Life Begins for Andy Hardy

Actor Aunt Letty
Barnacle Bill

Actor Miss Rollo, Harry's Secretary
H.M. Pulham, Esq.

Actor Harriet Harringan
Washington Melodrama

Actor Miss Matthews
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1940
1939

Actor Milly Forrest
Judge Hardy and Son
Actor Aunt Millie Forrest
Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)

Actor Miss Wilson
Remember?

Actor Miss Brendon
Tell No Tales

Actor Miss Bennett
Four Girls in White

Actor Milly Forrest
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

Actor Milly Forrest
The Hardys Ride High

Actor Nora
The Secret of Dr. Kildare

Actor Clara Barton (uncredited)
Angel of Mercy

Actor Policewoman
Think First
1938
1937
1936

Actor Agatha Morgan
Captain January

Actor Mrs. Lewis
Little Miss Nobody

Actor Henrietta Hargraves
Half Angel

Actor Collins
Poor Little Rich Girl

Actor Ellie
Reunion

Actor Mrs. Jennie Nevins
Laughing at Trouble

Actor Dr. Anna Burkhart
The Crime of Dr. Forbes

Actor Miss Beauregard Peachtree
Can This Be Dixie?

Actor Susan Franklin
Everybody's Old Man
1935
1934

Actor Mrs. Barry
Anne of Green Gables

Actor Miss Harrington
The White Parade

Actor The Secretary
Hat, Coat and Glove

Actor Sophie Van Leyden
The Fountain

Actor Winnie Belle
The Life of Vergie Winters

Actor Miss Fisher
Finishing School

Actor Frances Bennett - Gresham's Secretary
Affairs of a Gentleman

Actor Etta Dawson
Spitfire

Actor Martha
Music in the Air