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