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
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
as Flora
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
as Mildred Cassaway
She-Wolf of London (1946)
as Martha Winthrop
Boom Town (1940)
as Miss Barnes
Woman of the Year (1942)
as Matron
Rachel and the Stranger (1948)
as Mrs. Jackson
Mad Love (1935)
as Marie
Think First (1939)
as Policewoman
Love Crazy (1941)
as Miss Cecilia Landis
Above Suspicion (1943)
as Aunt Hattie
Rodeo (1952)
as Agatha Cartwright
Thousands Cheer (1943)
as Nurse #2
Captain January (1936)
as Agatha Morgan
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)
as Milly Forrest
Out West with the Hardys (1938)
as Milly Forrest
Way Down East (1935)
as Cordelia Peabody
The Youngest Profession (1943)
as Sister Lassie
Mr. Ace (1946)
as Alma Rhodes
Finishing School (1934)
as Miss Fisher
H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)
as Miss Rollo, Harry's Secretary
Magnificent Obsession (1935)
as Mrs. Nancy Ashford
Half Angel (1936)
as Henrietta Hargraves
The Great Rupert (1950)
as Mrs. Katie Dingle
The Affairs of Martha (1942)
as Mrs. Justin I. Peacock
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946)
as Aunt Milly
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
as Anna
The Hardys Ride High (1939)
as Milly Forrest
A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)
as Lula May McManamee
Laughing at Trouble (1936)
as Mrs. Jennie Nevins
A Family Affair (1937)
as Milly Forrest
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944)
as Milly Forrest
Spitfire (1934)
as Etta Dawson
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934)
as Winnie Belle
Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
as Collins
Music in the Air (1934)
as Martha
Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942)
as Milly Forrest
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)
as Milly Forrest
Little Miss Nobody (1936)
as Mrs. Lewis
Somewhere I'll Find You (1942)
as Miss Coulter
Bad Bascomb (1946)
as Tillie Lovejoy
Anne of Green Gables (1934)
as Mrs. Barry
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941)
as Milly Forrest
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
as Mrs. Bjornson
Judge Hardy and Son (1939)
as Milly Forrest
Four Girls in White (1939)
as Miss Bennett
The Crime of Dr. Forbes (1936)
as Dr. Anna Burkhart
Everybody's Old Man (1936)
as Susan Franklin
The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942)
as Milly Forrest
Washington Melodrama (1941)
as Harriet Harringan
Lost Angel (1943)
as Rhoda Kitterick
A Life of Her Own (1950)
as Smitty
The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)
as Nora
Broadway Rhythm (1944)
as Miss Wynn (uncredited)
The Big Cat (1949)
as Mrs. Mary Cooper
Wagons West (1952)
as Mrs. Cook
The Fountain (1934)
as Sophie Van Leyden
You're Only Young Once (1937)
as Milly Forrest
Hullabaloo (1940)
as 'Sue' Merriweather
Tell No Tales (1939)
as Miss Brendon
Under Cover of Night (1937)
as Janet Griswald
Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941)
as Milly Forrest
Roughshod (1949)
as Ma Wyatt
Best Foot Forward (1943)
as Miss Talbert
Keeping Company (1940)
as Mrs. Foster
Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958)
as Milly Forrest
The White Parade (1934)
as Miss Harrington
Betrayed Women (1955)
as Head Guard Darcy
First Lady (1937)
as Mrs. Mason
She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945)
as Laura Pitts
Affairs of a Gentleman (1934)
as Frances Bennett - Gresham's Secretary
Remember? (1939)
as Miss Wilson
Hat, Coat and Glove (1934)
as The Secretary
Reunion (1936)
as Ellie
The Trial of Mary Dugan (1941)
as Miss Matthews
Can This Be Dixie? (1936)
as Miss Beauregard Peachtree
Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family) (1939)
as Aunt Millie Forrest
O'Shaughnessy's Boy (1935)
as Aunt Martha
Angel of Mercy (1939)
as Clara Barton (uncredited)
Our Hearts Were Growing Up (1946)
as Miss Dill
Come Back, Miss Pipps (1941)
as Miss Pipps (uncredited)
The Outlaw's Daughter (1954)
as Mrs. Merril
Barnacle Bill (1941)
as Aunt Letty
As We Forgive (1952)
Actor
Flag of Mercy (1942)
as Clara Barton
Strictly Personal (1945)
as Helen Matthews