Sara Haden
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.
99 acting credits
Acting · 99
Perry Mason
1957
Route 66
1960
Matinee Theater
1955
The Millionaire
1955
Lock-Up
1959
State Trooper
1956
The Abbott and Costello Show
1952
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
December Bride
1954
Bourbon Street Beat
1959
Mr. & Mrs. North
1952
Breaking Point
1963
Vacation Playhouse
1963
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The Shop Around the Corner
1940
Woman of the Year
1942
The Bishop's Wife
1947
Love Crazy
1941
Above Suspicion
1943
Boom Town
1940
You're Only Young Once
1937
Rachel and the Stranger
1948
Mad Love
1935
Remember?
1939
Finishing School
1934
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
1940
Washington Melodrama
1941
The Fountain
1934
A Lion Is in the Streets
1953
First Lady
1937
Anne of Green Gables
1934
Four Girls in White
1939
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
1941
Wagons West
1952
Lost Angel
1943
Rodeo
1952
Poor Little Rich Girl
1936
Under Cover of Night
1937
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
1942
The Big Cat
1949
The Life of Vergie Winters
1934
The Great Rupert
1950
Laughing at Trouble
1936
Captain January
1936
Way Down East
1935
Thousands Cheer
1943
Spitfire
1934
Somewhere I'll Find You
1942
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1941
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
1945
Andy Hardy's Double Life
1942
She-Wolf of London
1946
Reunion
1936
Magnificent Obsession
1935
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1937
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
1939
A Life of Her Own
1950
The Hardys Ride High
1939
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
1946
Roughshod
1949
Bad Bascomb
1946
The White Parade
1934
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941
Best Foot Forward
1943
Angel of Mercy
1939
Judge Hardy and Son
1939
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
1944
The Affairs of Martha
1942
Half Angel
1936
Out West with the Hardys
1938
Music in the Air
1934
Broadway Rhythm
1944
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939
Hullabaloo
1940
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
1941
The Youngest Profession
1943
Andy Hardy Comes Home
1958
She Wouldn't Say Yes
1945
Tell No Tales
1939
Affairs of a Gentleman
1934
Can This Be Dixie?
1936
Come Back, Miss Pipps
1941
Flag of Mercy
1942
Little Miss Nobody
1936
Hat, Coat and Glove
1934
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
1946
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
1935
The Outlaw's Daughter
1954
Mr. Ace
1946
Barnacle Bill
1941
A Family Affair
1937
Think First
1939
Keeping Company
1940
The Crime of Dr. Forbes
1936
Betrayed Women
1955
Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)
1939
Everybody's Old Man
1936
As We Forgive
1952
Strictly Personal
1945