Sara Haden

Acting · 0.7 popularity

Age

127

Movies

Born: November 16, 1898 – September 15, 1981
From: Galveston, Texas, USA

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.

Works

85 films

The Shop Around the Corner

19408.1

The Bishop's Wife

19477.1

The Crime of Dr. Forbes

193610.0

Think First

19397.7

Boom Town

19406.9

The Youngest Profession

19435.3

Woman of the Year

19426.9

Mad Love

19357.0

Rachel and the Stranger

19486.5

Finishing School

19346.2

Captain January

19366.8

She-Wolf of London

19465.6

Love Crazy

19416.8

Above Suspicion

19436.2

Rodeo

19527.0

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

19446.3

The Great Rupert

19505.8

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

19415.7

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

19405.7

Somewhere I'll Find You

19425.7

The Life of Vergie Winters

19345.7

Andy Hardy's Double Life

19425.0

Under Cover of Night

19376.0

Mr. Ace

19465.8

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy

19465.9

A Family Affair

19375.9

Four Girls in White

19397.2

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

19375.9

Little Miss Nobody

19367.5

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

19395.7

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

19417.1

A Life of Her Own

19505.3

Way Down East

19354.3

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

19396.1

Spitfire

19345.3

Thousands Cheer

19436.4

The Courtship of Andy Hardy

19426.2

A Lion Is in the Streets

19535.4

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

19457.2

Tell No Tales

19395.4

You're Only Young Once

19375.7

The Trial of Mary Dugan

19416.5

The Big Cat

19494.0

Out West with the Hardys

19386.7

The Affairs of Martha

19426.6

Best Foot Forward

19436.8

Bad Bascomb

19467.3

Flag of Mercy

19427.5

Remember?

19396.0

Angel of Mercy

19397.7

Magnificent Obsession

19357.4

The Hardys Ride High

19396.5

Poor Little Rich Girl

19366.6

Life Begins for Andy Hardy

19416.0

Laughing at Trouble

19368.0

Music in the Air

19345.6

Broadway Rhythm

19446.3

Betrayed Women

19555.1

Andy Hardy Comes Home

19585.0

Everybody's Old Man

19368.0

Roughshod

19495.7

O'Shaughnessy's Boy

19356.2

Judge Hardy and Son

19395.9

Hullabaloo

19406.5

Wagons West

19527.3

The White Parade

19346.8

Lost Angel

19438.0

Keeping Company

19406.7

The Outlaw's Daughter

19548.0

Washington Melodrama

19416.0

Half Angel

19367.5

The Fountain

19348.9

Can This Be Dixie?

19367.0

Anne of Green Gables

19345.7

Hat, Coat and Glove

19347.0

Barnacle Bill

19417.8

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

19466.5

First Lady

19376.6

Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)

19395.5

Come Back, Miss Pipps

19417.7

She Wouldn't Say Yes

19456.4

Reunion

19367.0

Affairs of a Gentleman

19344.0

As We Forgive

1952

Strictly Personal

1945