Cast

Sara Haden

Acting

Cast

Sara Haden

Known for

Acting

Born

1898-11-16

From

Galveston, Texas, USA

Died

1981-09-15

Also known as Catherine Haden, Sarah Haden, Sarah Hayden

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.

Sara Haden

Sara Haden

Biography

Think First

The Shop Around the Corner

Woman of the Year

The Crime of Dr. Forbes

Rodeo

The Youngest Profession

Mr. Ace

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

A Lion Is in the Streets

Captain January

Somewhere I'll Find You

Everybody's Old Man

Rachel and the Stranger

Boom Town

Little Miss Nobody

Magnificent Obsession

The Fountain

Finishing School

Above Suspicion

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

Andy Hardy's Double Life

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

She-Wolf of London

The Great Rupert

You're Only Young Once

The Bishop's Wife

Love Crazy

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

Out West with the Hardys

Judge Hardy and Son

Music in the Air

The Life of Vergie Winters

The Affairs of Martha

Four Girls in White

Thousands Cheer

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

Tell No Tales

Betrayed Women

Broadway Rhythm

Way Down East

Roughshod

Under Cover of Night

Poor Little Rich Girl

First Lady

Best Foot Forward

The White Parade

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

Anne of Green Gables

The Big Cat

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

A Life of Her Own

Andy Hardy Comes Home

Life Begins for Andy Hardy

The Courtship of Andy Hardy

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

Mad Love

Half Angel

The Hardys Ride High

She Wouldn't Say Yes

Washington Melodrama

Spitfire

Barnacle Bill

Wagons West

Laughing at Trouble

Hat, Coat and Glove

O'Shaughnessy's Boy

The Outlaw's Daughter

Affairs of a Gentleman

Remember?

Lost Angel

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

Hullabaloo

Bad Bascomb

A Family Affair

Reunion

Angel of Mercy

As We Forgive