Cast & creator
Sara Haden
Best known for Perry Mason, Matinee Theater, Route 66
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.
Also known as: Catherine Haden, Sarah Haden, Sarah Hayden, Sara Hayden
86
film credits
14
television credits
100
1934–1963 · acting roles
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Filmography (100)
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Perry Mason
Florence Harvey
1957
Matinee Theater
1955
Route 66
1960
The Millionaire
Miss Kendis
1955State Trooper
1956
December Bride
1954
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Mother Superior
1959
The Abbott and Costello Show
Mrs. Bronson
1952
Lock-Up
1959
Bourbon Street Beat
1959Vacation Playhouse
Emma Madison
1963
Mr. & Mrs. North
1952
Breaking Point
1963
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Wife
1951
The Shop Around the Corner
Flora
1940
The Bishop's Wife
Mildred Cassaway
1947
Woman of the Year
Matron
1942
She-Wolf of London
Martha Winthrop
1946
Love Crazy
Miss Cecilia Landis
1941
Rachel and the Stranger
Mrs. Jackson
1948
You're Only Young Once
Milly Forrest
1937
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Anna
1937
A Life of Her Own
Smitty
1950
Mad Love
Marie
1935
Somewhere I'll Find You
Miss Coulter
1942
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Milly Forrest
1944
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Miss Rollo, Harry's Secretary
1941
Andy Hardy Comes Home
Milly Forrest
1958
Anne of Green Gables
Mrs. Barry
1934
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Milly Forrest
1940
Think First
Policewoman
1939
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Miss Dill
1946
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Nora
1939
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
Milly Forrest
1942
The Youngest Profession
Sister Lassie
1943
Poor Little Rich Girl
Collins
1936
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
Mrs. Bjornson
1945
Thousands Cheer
Nurse #2
1943
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
Aunt Milly
1946
The Hardys Ride High
Milly Forrest
1939
Andy Hardy's Double Life
Milly Forrest
1942
Above Suspicion
Aunt Hattie
1943
Out West with the Hardys
Milly Forrest
1938
Music in the Air
Martha
1934
Can This Be Dixie?
Miss Beauregard Peachtree
1936
The Crime of Dr. Forbes
Dr. Anna Burkhart
1936
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
Milly Forrest
1941
Best Foot Forward
Miss Talbert
1943
Boom Town
Miss Barnes
1940
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
Milly Forrest
1941
She Wouldn't Say Yes
Laura Pitts
1945
The Life of Vergie Winters
Winnie Belle
1934
Finishing School
Miss Fisher
1934
Mr. Ace
Alma Rhodes
1946
The Outlaw's Daughter
Mrs. Merril
1954
Everybody's Old Man
Susan Franklin
1936
Four Girls in White
Miss Bennett
1939
Roughshod
Ma Wyatt
1949
Rodeo
Agatha Cartwright
1952
The Great Rupert
Mrs. Katie Dingle
1950
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Miss Matthews
1941
The Barrier
Mrs. John 'Alluna' Gale
1937
A Lion Is in the Streets
Lula May McManamee
1953
The Affairs of Martha
Mrs. Justin I. Peacock
1942
Half Angel
Henrietta Hargraves
1936
Hat, Coat and Glove
The Secretary
1934
Little Miss Nobody
Mrs. Lewis
1936
Captain January
Agatha Morgan
1936
Judge Hardy and Son
Milly Forrest
1939
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Milly Forrest
1939
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Aunt Martha
1935
Keeping Company
Mrs. Foster
1940
Affairs of a Gentleman
Frances Bennett - Gresham's Secretary
1934
The White Parade
Miss Harrington
1934
Under Cover of Night
Janet Griswald
1937
Way Down East
Cordelia Peabody
1935
Tell No Tales
Miss Brendon
1939
Come Back, Miss Pipps
Miss Pipps (uncredited)
1941
Broadway Rhythm
Miss Wynn (uncredited)
1944
A Family Affair
Milly Forrest
1937
Lost Angel
Rhoda Kitterick
1943
Magnificent Obsession
Mrs. Nancy Ashford
1935Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)
Aunt Millie Forrest
1939
Spitfire
Etta Dawson
1934
First Lady
Mrs. Mason
1937
Reunion
Ellie
1936
Remember?
Miss Wilson
1939
Washington Melodrama
Harriet Harringan
1941
The Big Cat
Mrs. Mary Cooper
1949
Hullabaloo
'Sue' Merriweather
1940
Wagons West
Mrs. Cook
1952
The Fountain
Sophie Van Leyden
1934
Barnacle Bill
Aunt Letty
1941
Betrayed Women
Head Guard Darcy
1955
Angel of Mercy
Clara Barton (uncredited)
1939As We Forgive
1952
Bad Bascomb
Tillie Lovejoy
1946
Flag of Mercy
Clara Barton
1942
Laughing at Trouble
Mrs. Jennie Nevins
1936
Strictly Personal
Helen Matthews
1945