Sara Haden
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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
Matinee Theater
Perry Mason
Florence Harvey
Route 66
The Abbott and Costello Show
Mrs. Bronson
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Mother Superior
The Millionaire
Miss Kendis
Lock-Up
December Bride
Mr. & Mrs. North
Bourbon Street Beat
State Trooper
Breaking Point
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Wife
Vacation Playhouse
Emma Madison
The Bishop's Wife
Mildred Cassaway
The Great Rupert
Mrs.Katie Dingle
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
Milly Forrest
The Shop Around the Corner
Flora
Woman of the Year
Matron
She-Wolf of London
Martha Winthrop
Boom Town
Miss Barnes
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Milly Forrest
Mad Love
Marie
Finishing School
Miss Fisher
Above Suspicion
Aunt Hattie
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Nora
The Big Cat
Mrs. Mary Cooper
Lost Angel
Rhoda Kitterick
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Miss Rollo, Harry's Secretary
Anne of Green Gables
Mrs. Barry
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Miss Dill
Out West with the Hardys
Milly Forrest
Tell No Tales
Miss Brendon
Captain January
Agatha Morgan
First Lady
Mrs. Mason
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Anna
Best Foot Forward
Miss Talbert
The Fountain
Sophie Van Leyden
Love Crazy
Miss Cecilia Landis
Rachel and the Stranger
Mrs. Jackson
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
Milly Forrest
Thousands Cheer
Second Nurse in Frank Morgan Skit
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Milly Forrest
Magnificent Obsession
Mrs. Nancy Ashford
A Life of Her Own
Smitty
Somewhere I'll Find You
Miss Coulter
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Aunt Martha
Laughing at Trouble
Mrs. Jennie Nevins
The Hardys Ride High
Milly Forrest
Judge Hardy and Son
Milly Forrest
Four Girls in White
Miss Bennett
The Affairs of Martha
Mrs. Justin I. Peacock
Remember?
Miss Wilson
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
Mrs. Bjornson
Andy Hardy Comes Home
Milly Forrest
The Life of Vergie Winters
Winnie Belle
Way Down East
Cordelia Peabody
A Lion Is in the Streets
Lula May McManamee
Half Angel
Henrietta Hargraves
Roughshod
Ma Wyatt
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
Milly Forrest
A Family Affair
Milly Forrest
Poor Little Rich Girl
Collins
Music in the Air
Martha
The Youngest Profession
Sister Lassie
Hat, Coat and Glove
The Secretary
You're Only Young Once
Milly Forrest
Everybody's Old Man
Susan Franklin
Broadway Rhythm
Miss Wynn (uncredited)
Andy Hardy's Double Life
Milly Forrest
Little Miss Nobody
Mrs. Lewis
Under Cover of Night
Janet Griswald
She Wouldn't Say Yes
Laura Pitts
Barnacle Bill
Aunt Letty
Bad Bascomb
Tillie Lovejoy
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Milly Forrest
Spitfire
Etta Dawson
Keeping Company
Mrs. Foster
Hullabaloo
'Sue' Merriweather
Washington Melodrama
Harriet Harringan
The White Parade
Miss Harrington
Wagons West
Mrs. Cook
Think First
Policewoman
Come Back, Miss Pipps
Miss Pipps (uncredited)
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
Milly Forrest
Affairs of a Gentleman
Frances Bennett - Gresham's Secretary
Can This Be Dixie?
Miss Beauregard Peachtree
Betrayed Women
Head Guard Darcy
The Crime of Dr. Forbes
Dr. Anna Burkhart
Reunion
Ellie
Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)
Aunt Millie Forrest
Rodeo
Agatha Cartwright
Angel of Mercy
Clara Barton (uncredited)
The Outlaw's Daughter
Mrs. Merril
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Miss Matthews
Flag of Mercy
Clara Barton
Mr. Ace
Alma Rhodes
Strictly Personal
Helen Matthews