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