Sara Haden

Sara Haden

Birthday: 1898-11-16

Deathday: 1981-09-15

Place of birth: Galveston, Texas, USA

Also known as: Catherine Haden, Sarah Haden, Sarah Hayden, Sara Hayden

imdb_id: nm0352774

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.

Played in movies:

The Fountain

Score: 9.8

The Shop Around the Corner

Score: 8.1

Barnacle Bill

Score: 7.7

Lost Angel

Score: 7.5

Magnificent Obsession

Score: 7.4

The Bishop's Wife

Score: 7.1

Mad Love

Score: 7.0

Think First

Score: 7.0

Woman of the Year

Score: 6.9

Love Crazy

Score: 6.9

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

Score: 6.9

Boom Town

Score: 6.9

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

Score: 6.9

Captain January

Score: 6.7

Poor Little Rich Girl

Score: 6.6

Above Suspicion

Score: 6.5

Keeping Company

Score: 6.4

Thousands Cheer

Score: 6.4

Out West with the Hardys

Score: 6.4

Four Girls in White

Score: 6.3

The Affairs of Martha

Score: 6.2

Rachel and the Stranger

Score: 6.2

Bad Bascomb

Score: 6.2

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

Score: 6.2

Finishing School

Score: 6.2

First Lady

Score: 6.2

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

Score: 6.0

Angel of Mercy

Score: 6.0

Best Foot Forward

Score: 6.0

Laughing at Trouble

Score: 6.0

Half Angel

Score: 6.0

Little Miss Nobody

Score: 6.0

Wagons West

Score: 6.0

O'Shaughnessy's Boy

Score: 6.0

The White Parade

Score: 6.0

Come Back, Miss Pipps

Score: 6.0

Somewhere I'll Find You

Score: 5.9

The Life of Vergie Winters

Score: 5.9

A Family Affair

Score: 5.9

She Wouldn't Say Yes

Score: 5.9

Life Begins for Andy Hardy

Score: 5.9

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

Score: 5.8

The Hardys Ride High

Score: 5.8

Remember?

Score: 5.8

You're Only Young Once

Score: 5.8

The Courtship of Andy Hardy

Score: 5.7

Under Cover of Night

Score: 5.7

Anne of Green Gables

Score: 5.7

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

Score: 5.7

Judge Hardy and Son

Score: 5.6

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

Score: 5.6

Mr. Ace

Score: 5.6

The Great Rupert

Score: 5.6

She-Wolf of London

Score: 5.6

Broadway Rhythm

Score: 5.5

Hat, Coat and Glove

Score: 5.5

A Lion Is in the Streets

Score: 5.5

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy

Score: 5.5

Spitfire

Score: 5.4

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

Score: 5.4

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

Score: 5.4

Roughshod

Score: 5.3

Tell No Tales

Score: 5.3

A Life of Her Own

Score: 5.3

Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)

Score: 5.3

The Youngest Profession

Score: 5.2

The Trial of Mary Dugan

Score: 5.0

Washington Melodrama

Score: 5.0

Music in the Air

Score: 4.8

Andy Hardy's Double Life

Score: 4.8

Betrayed Women

Score: 4.7

Andy Hardy Comes Home

Score: 4.5

Hullabaloo

Score: 4.0

Affairs of a Gentleman

Score: 4.0

The Big Cat

Score: 3.5

Way Down East

Score: 3.0

As We Forgive

Score: 0.0

Everybody's Old Man

Score: 0.0

Can This Be Dixie?

Score: 0.0

Strictly Personal

Score: 0.0

Flag of Mercy

Score: 0.0

The Crime of Dr. Forbes

Score: 0.0

The Outlaw's Daughter

Score: 0.0

Reunion

Score: 0.0

Rodeo

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Breaking Point

Score: 7.3

The Abbott and Costello Show

Score: 7.2

Vacation Playhouse

Score: 7.0

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

Score: 6.3

Route 66

Score: 6.3

Lock-Up

Score: 6.2

December Bride

Score: 5.5

State Trooper

Score: 5.0

Matinee Theater

Score: 5.0

The Millionaire

Score: 5.0

Bourbon Street Beat

Score: 5.0

Mr. & Mrs. North

Score: 4.3