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Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 16, 1898
Died
September 15, 1981
Place of Birth
Galveston, Texas, USA
Also Known As
- Catherine Haden
- Sarah Haden
- Sarah Hayden
- Sara Hayden
Sara Haden
0.5 Popularity
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.
Known For
Credits
Breaking Point
1963
7.2
🎬
Vacation Playhouse
as Emma Madison
1963
7.0
Route 66
1960
6.3
Bourbon Street Beat
1959
5.0
Lock-Up
1959
6.2
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Mother Superior
1959
6.3
Andy Hardy Comes Home
as Milly Forrest
1958
4.5
Perry Mason
as Florence Harvey
1957
7.7
🎬
State Trooper
1956
5.0
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
Betrayed Women
as Head Guard Darcy
1955
4.7
The Millionaire
as Miss Kendis
1955
5.0
The Outlaw's Daughter
as Mrs. Merril
1954
0.0
December Bride
1954
5.5
A Lion Is in the Streets
as Lula May McManamee
1953
5.1
The Abbott and Costello Show
as Mrs. Bronson
1952
7.2
Mr. & Mrs. North
1952
4.3
Wagons West
as Mrs. Cook
1952
6.5
Rodeo
as Agatha Cartwright
1952
0.0
🎬
As We Forgive
1952
0.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Wife
1951
8.6
A Life of Her Own
as Smitty
1950
5.1
The Great Rupert
as Mrs. Katie Dingle
1950
5.6
Roughshod
as Ma Wyatt
1949
5.3
The Big Cat
as Mrs. Mary Cooper
1949
3.5
Rachel and the Stranger
as Mrs. Jackson
1948
6.2
The Bishop's Wife
as Mildred Cassaway
1947
7.1
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
as Milly Forrest
1946
5.5
Mr. Ace
as Alma Rhodes
1946
5.6
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
as Miss Dill
1946
6.2
Bad Bascomb
as Tillie Lovejoy
1946
6.2
She-Wolf of London
as Martha Winthrop
1946
5.5
Strictly Personal
as Helen Matthews
1945
0.0
She Wouldn't Say Yes
as Laura Pitts
1945
5.9
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
as Mrs. Bjornson
1945
6.9
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
as Milly Forrest
1944
5.8
Broadway Rhythm
as Miss Wynn (uncredited)
1944
5.5
Lost Angel
as Rhoda Kitterick
1943
7.5
Best Foot Forward
as Miss Talbert
1943
6.0
Thousands Cheer
as Second Nurse in Frank Morgan Skit
1943
6.4
Above Suspicion
as Aunt Hattie
1943
6.1
The Youngest Profession
as Sister Lassie
1943
4.7
Andy Hardy's Double Life
as Milly Forrest
1942
4.8
Somewhere I'll Find You
as Miss Coulter
1942
5.6
The Affairs of Martha
as Mrs. Justin I. Peacock
1942
6.2
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
as Milly Forrest
1942
5.7
Woman of the Year
as Matron
1942
6.9
Flag of Mercy
as Clara Barton
1942
0.0
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
as Miss Rollo, Harry's Secretary
1941
7.1
Come Back, Miss Pipps
as Miss Pipps (uncredited)
1941
6.0
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
as Milly Forrest
1941
5.9
Love Crazy
as Miss Cecilia Landis
1941
6.7
Washington Melodrama
as Harriet Harringan
1941
5.0
Barnacle Bill
as Aunt Letty
1941
7.7
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
as Milly Forrest
1941
5.4
The Trial of Mary Dugan
as Miss Matthews
1941
5.0
Keeping Company
as Mrs. Foster
1940
6.4
Hullabaloo
as 'Sue' Merriweather
1940
4.0
Boom Town
as Miss Barnes
1940
6.9
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
as Milly Forrest
1940
5.4
The Shop Around the Corner
as Flora
1940
8.1
Judge Hardy and Son
as Milly Forrest
1939
5.6
Remember?
as Miss Wilson
1939
5.8
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
as Nora
1939
5.6
Think First
as Policewoman
1939
7.0
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
as Milly Forrest
1939
5.4
Tell No Tales
as Miss Brendon
1939
4.6
Angel of Mercy
as Clara Barton (uncredited)
1939
6.0
The Hardys Ride High
as Milly Forrest
1939
5.8
Four Girls in White
as Miss Bennett
1939
6.3
🎬
Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)
as Aunt Millie Forrest
1939
5.3
Out West with the Hardys
as Milly Forrest
1938
6.4
You're Only Young Once
as Milly Forrest
1937
5.5
First Lady
as Mrs. Mason
1937
6.2
A Family Affair
as Milly Forrest
1937
5.7
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
as Anna
1937
5.8
Under Cover of Night
as Janet Griswald
1937
5.7
Laughing at Trouble
as Mrs. Jennie Nevins
1936
6.0
Reunion
as Ellie
1936
0.0
Can This Be Dixie?
as Miss Beauregard Peachtree
1936
0.0
Poor Little Rich Girl
as Collins
1936
6.6
The Crime of Dr. Forbes
as Dr. Anna Burkhart
1936
0.0
Little Miss Nobody
as Mrs. Lewis
1936
6.0
Half Angel
as Henrietta Hargraves
1936
6.0
Captain January
as Agatha Morgan
1936
6.7
Everybody's Old Man
as Susan Franklin
1936
0.0
Magnificent Obsession
as Mrs. Nancy Ashford
1935
7.3
Way Down East
as Cordelia Peabody
1935
3.0
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
as Aunt Martha
1935
6.0
Mad Love
as Marie
1935
7.0
Music in the Air
as Martha
1934
4.8
Anne of Green Gables
as Mrs. Barry
1934
5.5
The White Parade
as Miss Harrington
1934
6.0
The Fountain
as Sophie Van Leyden
1934
9.8
Hat, Coat and Glove
as The Secretary
1934
5.5
The Life of Vergie Winters
as Winnie Belle
1934
5.2
Finishing School
as Miss Fisher
1934
6.0
Affairs of a Gentleman
as Frances Bennett - Gresham's Secretary
1934
3.4
Spitfire
as Etta Dawson
1934
5.1