
Sara Haden
Born November 16, 1898 · 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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Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

Thousands Cheer

Love Crazy

Poor Little Rich Girl

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

A Life of Her Own

A Lion Is in the Streets

You're Only Young Once

Boom Town

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

Music in the Air

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

The Affairs of Martha

Above Suspicion

Mad Love

Andy Hardy's Double Life

Andy Hardy Comes Home

Everybody's Old Man

The Youngest Profession

She Wouldn't Say Yes

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

O'Shaughnessy's Boy

Four Girls in White

Out West with the Hardys

Life Begins for Andy Hardy

The Life of Vergie Winters

Best Foot Forward

Way Down East

The Outlaw's Daughter

Hat, Coat and Glove

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

The Courtship of Andy Hardy

Judge Hardy and Son

The Hardys Ride High

The Crime of Dr. Forbes

Under Cover of Night

Anne of Green Gables

Mr. Ace

Finishing School

Affairs of a Gentleman

Captain January

Can This Be Dixie?

Rodeo

Think First

The Great Rupert

Come Back, Miss Pipps

The Barrier

Magnificent Obsession

Broadway Rhythm

Half Angel

Roughshod

The Trial of Mary Dugan

A Family Affair

Lost Angel

Tell No Tales

First Lady

Little Miss Nobody

Wagons West

The White Parade

Spitfire

The Fountain

Barnacle Bill

Keeping Company

Betrayed Women

Remember?

Hullabaloo

Laughing at Trouble

The Big Cat

Washington Melodrama

Bad Bascomb

Flag of Mercy

Angel of Mercy

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