Sara Haden
Acting
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.
Born: November 16, 1898
Place of Birth: Galveston, Texas, USA
Known For
Filmography
as Emma Madison
as Mother Superior
as Milly Forrest
as Florence Harvey
as Head Guard Darcy
as Miss Kendis
as Mrs. Merril
as Lula May McManamee
as Mrs. Bronson
as Mrs. Cook
as Agatha Cartwright
as Wife
as Smitty
as Mrs.Katie Dingle
as Ma Wyatt
as Mrs. Mary Cooper
as Mrs. Jackson
as Mildred Cassaway
as Milly Forrest
as Alma Rhodes
as Miss Dill
as Tillie Lovejoy
as Martha Winthrop
as Helen Matthews
as Laura Pitts
as Mrs. Bjornson
as Milly Forrest
as Miss Wynn (uncredited)
as Rhoda Kitterick
as Miss Talbert
as Second Nurse in Frank Morgan Skit
as Aunt Hattie
as Sister Lassie
as Milly Forrest
as Miss Coulter
as Mrs. Justin I. Peacock
as Milly Forrest
as Matron
as Clara Barton
as Miss Rollo, Harry's Secretary
as Miss Pipps (uncredited)
as Milly Forrest
as Miss Cecilia Landis
as Harriet Harringan
as Aunt Letty
as Milly Forrest
as Miss Matthews
as Mrs. Foster
as 'Sue' Merriweather
as Miss Barnes
as Milly Forrest
as Flora
as Milly Forrest
as Miss Wilson
as Nora
as Policewoman
as Milly Forrest
as Miss Brendon
as Clara Barton (uncredited)
as Milly Forrest
as Miss Bennett
as Milly Forrest
as Milly Forrest
as Mrs. Mason
as Milly Forrest
as Anna
as Janet Griswald
as Mrs. Jennie Nevins
as Ellie
as Miss Beauregard Peachtree
as Collins
as Dr. Anna Burkhart
as Mrs. Lewis
as Henrietta Hargraves
as Agatha Morgan
as Susan Franklin
as Mrs. Nancy Ashford
as Cordelia Peabody
as Aunt Martha
as Marie
as Martha
as Mrs. Barry
as Miss Harrington
as Sophie Van Leyden
as The Secretary
as Winnie Belle
as Miss Fisher
as Frances Bennett - Gresham's Secretary
as Etta Dawson