Sara Haden
Acting
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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.
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Filmography of
Sara Haden
Milly Forrest
... 1958
Head Guard Darcy
... 1955
Mrs. Merril
... 1954
Lula May McManamee
... 1953
Mrs. Cook
... 1952
Agatha Cartwright
... 1952
... 1952
Smitty
... 1950
Mrs.Katie Dingle
... 1950
Ma Wyatt
... 1949
Mrs. Mary Cooper
... 1949
Mrs. Jackson
... 1948
Mildred Cassaway
... 1947
Milly Forrest
... 1946
Alma Rhodes
... 1946
Miss Dill
... 1946
Tillie Lovejoy
... 1946
Martha Winthrop
... 1946
Helen Matthews
... 1945
Laura Pitts
... 1945
Mrs. Bjornson
... 1945
Milly Forrest
... 1944
Miss Wynn (uncredited)
... 1944
Rhoda Kitterick
... 1943
Miss Talbert
... 1943
Second Nurse in Frank Morgan Skit
... 1943
Aunt Hattie
... 1943
Sister Lassie
... 1943
Milly Forrest
... 1942
Miss Coulter
... 1942
Mrs. Justin I. Peacock
... 1942
Milly Forrest
... 1942
Matron
... 1942
Clara Barton
... 1942
Miss Rollo, Harry's Secretary
... 1941
Miss Pipps (uncredited)
... 1941
Milly Forrest
... 1941
Miss Cecilia Landis
... 1941
Harriet Harringan
... 1941
Aunt Letty
... 1941
Milly Forrest
... 1941
Miss Matthews
... 1941
Mrs. Foster
... 1940
'Sue' Merriweather
... 1940
Miss Barnes
... 1940
Milly Forrest
... 1940
... 1940
Milly Forrest
... 1939
Miss Wilson
... 1939
... 1939
Policewoman
... 1939
Milly Forrest
... 1939
Miss Brendon
... 1939
Clara Barton (uncredited)
... 1939
Milly Forrest
... 1939
Miss Bennett
... 1939
Aunt Millie Forrest
... 1939
Milly Forrest
... 1938
Milly Forrest
... 1937
Mrs. Mason
... 1937
Milly Forrest
... 1937
... 1937
Janet Griswald
... 1937
Mrs. Jennie Nevins
... 1936
Ellie
... 1936
Miss Beauregard Peachtree
... 1936
Collins
... 1936
Dr. Anna Burkhart
... 1936
Mrs. Lewis
... 1936
Henrietta Hargraves
... 1936
Agatha Morgan
... 1936
Susan Franklin
... 1936
Mrs. Nancy Ashford
... 1935
Cordelia Peabody
... 1935
Aunt Martha
... 1935
Marie
... 1935
Martha
... 1934
Mrs. Barry
... 1934
Miss Harrington
... 1934
Sophie Van Leyden
... 1934
The Secretary
... 1934
Winnie Belle
... 1934
Miss Fisher
... 1934
Frances Bennett - Gresham's Secretary
... 1934
Etta Dawson
... 1934