Sara Haden
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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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Movies (86)
Andy Hardy Comes Home
1958 · Milly Forrest
Betrayed Women
1955 · Head Guard Darcy
The Outlaw's Daughter
1954 · Mrs. Merril
A Lion Is in the Streets
1953 · Lula May McManamee
Wagons West
1952 · Mrs. Cook
Rodeo
1952 · Agatha Cartwright
As We Forgive
1952
A Life of Her Own
1950 · Smitty
The Great Rupert
1950 · Mrs. Katie Dingle
Roughshod
1949 · Ma Wyatt
The Big Cat
1949 · Mrs. Mary Cooper
Rachel and the Stranger
1948 · Mrs. Jackson
The Bishop's Wife
1947 · Mildred Cassaway
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
1946 · Aunt Milly
Mr. Ace
1946 · Alma Rhodes
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
1946 · Miss Dill
Bad Bascomb
1946 · Tillie Lovejoy
She-Wolf of London
1946 · Martha Winthrop
Strictly Personal
1945 · Helen Matthews
She Wouldn't Say Yes
1945 · Laura Pitts
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
1945 · Mrs. Bjornson
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
1944 · Milly Forrest
Broadway Rhythm
1944 · Miss Wynn (uncredited)
Lost Angel
1943 · Rhoda Kitterick
Best Foot Forward
1943 · Miss Talbert
Thousands Cheer
1943 · Nurse #2
Above Suspicion
1943 · Aunt Hattie
The Youngest Profession
1943 · Sister Lassie
Andy Hardy's Double Life
1942 · Milly Forrest
Somewhere I'll Find You
1942 · Miss Coulter
The Affairs of Martha
1942 · Mrs. Justin I. Peacock
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
1942 · Milly Forrest
Woman of the Year
1942 · Matron
Flag of Mercy
1942 · Clara Barton
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941 · Miss Rollo, Harry's Secretary
Come Back, Miss Pipps
1941 · Miss Pipps (uncredited)
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
1941 · Milly Forrest
Love Crazy
1941 · Miss Cecilia Landis
Washington Melodrama
1941 · Harriet Harringan
Barnacle Bill
1941 · Aunt Letty
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
1941 · Milly Forrest
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1941 · Miss Matthews
Keeping Company
1940 · Mrs. Foster
Hullabaloo
1940 · 'Sue' Merriweather
Boom Town
1940 · Miss Barnes
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
1940 · Milly Forrest
The Shop Around the Corner
1940 · Flora
Judge Hardy and Son
1939 · Milly Forrest
Remember?
1939 · Miss Wilson
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939 · Nora
Think First
1939 · Policewoman
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
1939 · Milly Forrest
Tell No Tales
1939 · Miss Brendon
Angel of Mercy
1939 · Clara Barton (uncredited)
The Hardys Ride High
1939 · Milly Forrest
Four Girls in White
1939 · Miss Bennett
Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)
1939 · Aunt Millie Forrest
Out West with the Hardys
1938 · Milly Forrest
You're Only Young Once
1937 · Milly Forrest
The Barrier
1937 · Mrs. John 'Alluna' Gale
First Lady
1937 · Mrs. Mason
A Family Affair
1937 · Milly Forrest
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1937 · Anna
Under Cover of Night
1937 · Janet Griswald
Laughing at Trouble
1936 · Mrs. Jennie Nevins
Reunion
1936 · Ellie
Can This Be Dixie?
1936 · Miss Beauregard Peachtree
Poor Little Rich Girl
1936 · Collins
The Crime of Dr. Forbes
1936 · Dr. Anna Burkhart
Little Miss Nobody
1936 · Mrs. Lewis
Half Angel
1936 · Henrietta Hargraves
Captain January
1936 · Agatha Morgan
Everybody's Old Man
1936 · Susan Franklin
Magnificent Obsession
1935 · Mrs. Nancy Ashford
Way Down East
1935 · Cordelia Peabody
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
1935 · Aunt Martha
Mad Love
1935 · Marie
Music in the Air
1934 · Martha
Anne of Green Gables
1934 · Mrs. Barry
The White Parade
1934 · Miss Harrington
The Fountain
1934 · Sophie Van Leyden
Hat, Coat and Glove
1934 · The Secretary
The Life of Vergie Winters
1934 · Winnie Belle
Finishing School
1934 · Miss Fisher
Affairs of a Gentleman
1934 · Frances Bennett - Gresham's Secretary
Spitfire
1934 · Etta Dawson
TV shows (14)
Breaking Point
1963
Vacation Playhouse
1963 · Emma Madison
Route 66
1960
Bourbon Street Beat
1959
Lock-Up
1959
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959 · Mother Superior
Perry Mason
1957 · Florence Harvey
State Trooper
1956
Matinee Theater
1955
The Millionaire
1955 · Miss Kendis
December Bride
1954
The Abbott and Costello Show
1952 · Mrs. Bronson
Mr. & Mrs. North
1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Wife