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