
Sara Haden
Biography
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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.
Acting (83 movies)

Come Back, Miss Pipps
1941

The Shop Around the Corner
1940

Woman of the Year
1942

Love Crazy
1941

Above Suspicion
1943

Mad Love
1935

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
1946

Thousands Cheer
1943

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
1941

Life Begins for Andy Hardy
1941

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
1940

Anne of Green Gables
1934

She-Wolf of London
1946

The Bishop's Wife
1947

The Great Rupert
1950

The White Parade
1934

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
1944

Captain January
1936

Out West with the Hardys
1938

Judge Hardy and Son
1939

Betrayed Women
1955

She Wouldn't Say Yes
1945

The Youngest Profession
1943

First Lady
1937

A Lion Is in the Streets
1953

Under Cover of Night
1937

A Family Affair
1937

Andy Hardy Comes Home
1958

Hat, Coat and Glove
1934

The Big Cat
1949

Barnacle Bill
1941

A Life of Her Own
1950

O'Shaughnessy's Boy
1935

Remember?
1939

Wagons West
1952

Way Down East
1935

Little Miss Nobody
1936

Andy Hardy's Double Life
1942

The Fountain
1934

The Courtship of Andy Hardy
1942

H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941

Boom Town
1940

The Life of Vergie Winters
1934

Somewhere I'll Find You
1942

Washington Melodrama
1941

Magnificent Obsession
1935

Rodeo
1952

Half Angel
1936

Poor Little Rich Girl
1936

Reunion
1936

You're Only Young Once
1937

Tell No Tales
1939

Keeping Company
1940

Finishing School
1934

Four Girls in White
1939

Laughing at Trouble
1936

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
1939

Affairs of a Gentleman
1934

Spitfire
1934

Mr. Ace
1946

The Hardys Ride High
1939

The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939

Our Hearts Were Growing Up
1946

Best Foot Forward
1943

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
1945

The Outlaw's Daughter
1954

The Trial of Mary Dugan
1941

The Crime of Dr. Forbes
1936

Music in the Air
1934

Bad Bascomb
1946

Rachel and the Stranger
1948

Hullabaloo
1940

Broadway Rhythm
1944

Angel of Mercy
1939

Think First
1939

Lost Angel
1943

The Affairs of Martha
1942

Roughshod
1949

Flag of Mercy
1942

Strictly Personal
1945

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1937

Can This Be Dixie?
1936

Everybody's Old Man
1936
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