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Sara Haden

Sara Haden

Actor · 1898 – 1981 · 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.

Movies24

  • Movie8.1
  • Movie7.1

    The Bishop's Wife

    1947 · 287 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Woman of the Year

    1942 · 169 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Mad Love

    1935 · 126 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Above Suspicion

    1943 · 39 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Thousands Cheer

    1943 · 21 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Captain January

    1936 · 22 votes

  • Movie5.3

    A Life of Her Own

    1950 · 20 votes

  • Movie6.5
  • Movie6.5

    Rachel and the Stranger

    1948 · 35 votes

  • Movie5.7
  • Movie5.4

    A Lion Is in the Streets

    1953 · 17 votes

  • Movie7.1

    H.M. Pulham, Esq.

    1941 · 11 votes

  • Movie5.6

    She-Wolf of London

    1946 · 75 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Boom Town

    1940 · 64 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Finishing School

    1934 · 18 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Andy Hardy's Double Life

    1942 · 11 votes

  • Movie6.7
  • Movie6.5
  • Movie5.7
  • Movie6.6

    Poor Little Rich Girl

    1936 · 21 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Somewhere I'll Find You

    1942 · 14 votes

  • Movie7.2
  • Movie6.1

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  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

  • TV5.3

    Matinee Theater

    1955 · 7 votes

  • TV6.7

    Route 66

    1960 · 20 votes

  • TV6.8
  • TV5.8

    The Millionaire

    1955 · 4 votes

  • TV6.3

    December Bride

    1954 · 4 votes

  • TV6.4

    Lock-Up

    1959 · 7 votes

  • TV5.7

    State Trooper

    1956 · 7 votes

  • TV7.2
  • TV5.0

    Mr. & Mrs. North

    1952 · 7 votes

  • TV8.0

    Vacation Playhouse

    1963 · 2 votes

  • TV6.0

    Bourbon Street Beat

    1959 · 2 votes

  • TV8.8

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    1951 · 8 votes

  • TV7.4

    Breaking Point

    1963 · 5 votes