Sara Haden
Acting • Born 1898-11-16 – Died 1981-09-15
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.
Filmography
99 credits
Come Back, Miss Pipps
Movie • 1941
Miss Pipps (uncredited)
The Shop Around the Corner
Movie • 1940
Flora
Woman of the Year
Movie • 1942
Matron
Love Crazy
Movie • 1941
Miss Cecilia Landis
Above Suspicion
Movie • 1943
Aunt Hattie
Mad Love
Movie • 1935
Marie
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
Movie • 1946
Milly Forrest
Thousands Cheer
Movie • 1943
Second Nurse in Frank Morgan Skit
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
Movie • 1941
Milly Forrest
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
Movie • 1941
Milly Forrest
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Movie • 1940
Milly Forrest
Anne of Green Gables
Movie • 1934
Mrs. Barry
She-Wolf of London
Movie • 1946
Martha Winthrop
The Bishop's Wife
Movie • 1947
Mildred Cassaway
The Great Rupert
Movie • 1950
Mrs. Katie Dingle
The White Parade
Movie • 1934
Miss Harrington
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Movie • 1944
Milly Forrest
Captain January
Movie • 1936
Agatha Morgan
Out West with the Hardys
Movie • 1938
Milly Forrest
Judge Hardy and Son
Movie • 1939
Milly Forrest
Betrayed Women
Movie • 1955
Head Guard Darcy
She Wouldn't Say Yes
Movie • 1945
Laura Pitts
The Youngest Profession
Movie • 1943
Sister Lassie
First Lady
Movie • 1937
Mrs. Mason
A Lion Is in the Streets
Movie • 1953
Lula May McManamee
Under Cover of Night
Movie • 1937
Janet Griswald
A Family Affair
Movie • 1937
Milly Forrest
Andy Hardy Comes Home
Movie • 1958
Milly Forrest
Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)
Movie • 1939
Aunt Millie Forrest
Hat, Coat and Glove
Movie • 1934
The Secretary
The Big Cat
Movie • 1949
Mrs. Mary Cooper
Barnacle Bill
Movie • 1941
Aunt Letty
A Life of Her Own
Movie • 1950
Smitty
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Movie • 1935
Aunt Martha
Remember?
Movie • 1939
Miss Wilson
Wagons West
Movie • 1952
Mrs. Cook
Way Down East
Movie • 1935
Cordelia Peabody
Little Miss Nobody
Movie • 1936
Mrs. Lewis
Andy Hardy's Double Life
Movie • 1942
Milly Forrest
The Fountain
Movie • 1934
Sophie Van Leyden
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
Movie • 1942
Milly Forrest
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Movie • 1941
Miss Rollo, Harry's Secretary
Boom Town
Movie • 1940
Miss Barnes
The Life of Vergie Winters
Movie • 1934
Winnie Belle
Somewhere I'll Find You
Movie • 1942
Miss Coulter
Washington Melodrama
Movie • 1941
Harriet Harringan
Magnificent Obsession
Movie • 1935
Mrs. Nancy Ashford
Rodeo
Movie • 1952
Agatha Cartwright
Half Angel
Movie • 1936
Henrietta Hargraves
Poor Little Rich Girl
Movie • 1936
Collins
Reunion
Movie • 1936
Ellie
You're Only Young Once
Movie • 1937
Milly Forrest
Tell No Tales
Movie • 1939
Miss Brendon
Keeping Company
Movie • 1940
Mrs. Foster
Finishing School
Movie • 1934
Miss Fisher
Four Girls in White
Movie • 1939
Miss Bennett
Laughing at Trouble
Movie • 1936
Mrs. Jennie Nevins
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Movie • 1939
Milly Forrest
Affairs of a Gentleman
Movie • 1934
Frances Bennett - Gresham's Secretary
Spitfire
Movie • 1934
Etta Dawson
Mr. Ace
Movie • 1946
Alma Rhodes
The Hardys Ride High
Movie • 1939
Milly Forrest
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Movie • 1939
Nora
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Movie • 1946
Miss Dill
Best Foot Forward
Movie • 1943
Miss Talbert
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
Movie • 1945
Mrs. Bjornson
The Outlaw's Daughter
Movie • 1954
Mrs. Merril
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Movie • 1941
Miss Matthews
The Crime of Dr. Forbes
Movie • 1936
Dr. Anna Burkhart
Music in the Air
Movie • 1934
Martha
Bad Bascomb
Movie • 1946
Tillie Lovejoy
Rachel and the Stranger
Movie • 1948
Mrs. Jackson
Hullabaloo
Movie • 1940
'Sue' Merriweather
Broadway Rhythm
Movie • 1944
Miss Wynn (uncredited)
Angel of Mercy
Movie • 1939
Clara Barton (uncredited)
Think First
Movie • 1939
Policewoman
Lost Angel
Movie • 1943
Rhoda Kitterick
The Affairs of Martha
Movie • 1942
Mrs. Justin I. Peacock
Roughshod
Movie • 1949
Ma Wyatt
Flag of Mercy
Movie • 1942
Clara Barton
Strictly Personal
Movie • 1945
Helen Matthews
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Movie • 1937
Anna
Can This Be Dixie?
Movie • 1936
Miss Beauregard Peachtree
Everybody's Old Man
Movie • 1936
Susan Franklin
As We Forgive
Movie • 1952
December Bride
TV • 1954
Bourbon Street Beat
TV • 1959
Route 66
TV • 1960
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Florence Harvey
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Wife
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Miss Kendis
Matinee Theater
TV • 1955
Lock-Up
TV • 1959
Breaking Point
TV • 1963
Vacation Playhouse
TV • 1963
Emma Madison
State Trooper
TV • 1956
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV • 1959
Mother Superior
Mr. & Mrs. North
TV • 1952
The Abbott and Costello Show
TV • 1952
Mrs. Bronson