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