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Aliases: Catherine Haden , Sarah Haden , Sarah Hayden , Sara Hayden

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Galveston, Texas, USA

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Movie Involvements: 42

TV Involvements: 4


Most Famous Work

Biography

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.

Most Famous Work

Perry Mason
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8

Perry Mason

(1957) Florence Harvey
The Millionaire
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5

The Millionaire

(1955) Miss Kendis
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
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6

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

(1959) Mother Superior
Mad Love
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7

Mad Love

(1935) Marie
Above Suspicion
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6

Above Suspicion

(1943) Aunt Hattie
Rachel and the Stranger
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6

Rachel and the Stranger

(1948) Mrs. Jackson
She-Wolf of London
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6

She-Wolf of London

(1946) Martha Winthrop
A Life of Her Own
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5

A Life of Her Own

(1950) Smitty

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1963 N/A
Emma Madison
1960 N/A
1959 N/A
N/A
Mother Superior
1958 Milly Forrest
1957 Florence Harvey
1956 N/A
1955 N/A
Head Guard Darcy
Miss Kendis
1954 Mrs. Merril
N/A
1953 Lula May McManamee
1952 N/A
Mrs. Cook
Agatha Cartwright
1951 Wife
1950 Smitty
Mrs.Katie Dingle
1949 Ma Wyatt
Mrs. Mary Cooper
1948 Mrs. Jackson
1947 Mildred Cassaway
1946 Milly Forrest
Alma Rhodes
Miss Dill
Tillie Lovejoy
Martha Winthrop
1945 Helen Matthews
Laura Pitts
Mrs. Bjornson
1944 Milly Forrest
Miss Wynn (uncredited)
1943 Rhoda Kitterick
Miss Talbert
Aunt Hattie
Sister Lassie
Second Nurse in Frank Morgan Skit
1942 Milly Forrest
Miss Coulter
Mrs. Justin I. Peacock
Milly Forrest
Matron
Clara Barton
1941 Miss Rollo, Harry's Secretary
Miss Pipps (uncredited)
Milly Forrest
Miss Cecilia Landis
Harriet Harringan
Aunt Letty
Milly Forrest
Miss Matthews
1940 Mrs. Foster
'Sue' Merriweather
Miss Barnes
Milly Forrest
Flora
1939 Milly Forrest
Miss Wilson
Nora
Policewoman
Milly Forrest
Miss Brendon
Clara Barton (uncredited)
Milly Forrest
Miss Bennett
Aunt Millie Forrest
1938 Milly Forrest
1937 Milly Forrest
Mrs. Mason
Milly Forrest
Anna
Janet Griswald
1936 Mrs. Jennie Nevins
Ellie
Miss Beauregard Peachtree
Collins
Dr. Anna Burkhart
Mrs. Lewis
Henrietta Hargraves
Agatha Morgan
1935 Mrs. Nancy Ashford
Cordelia Peabody
Aunt Martha
Marie
1934 Martha
Mrs. Barry
Miss Harrington
Sophie Van Leyden
The Secretary
Winnie Belle
Miss Fisher
Frances Bennett - Gresham's Secretary
Etta Dawson
Year Character Movie/Tv

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