Personal Info
Birth date
1898-11-16 (126 Years)
Day of death
1981-09-15
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Galveston, Texas, USA
Also known as
Catherine Haden
Sarah Haden
Sarah Hayden
Sara Hayden
Sara Haden
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.
Filmography
Matinee Theater
5
Overview:
Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.Perry Mason
7.7
Overview:
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.Route 66
6.3
Overview:
After discovering that his late father has gone through most of the family fortune, Tod Stiles hits the title trans-America highway in his Corvette in search of adventure with friend Buz Murdock, a survivor of New York's mean streets. The two work odd jobs as they meet and interact with colorful characters and find themselves plunged into one situation after another, some of them romantic, some of them very dangerous. Later, Linc Case, a Vietnam war hero trying to find himself, takes over as Tod's travel companion.The Abbott and Costello Show
7.1
Overview:
Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields’ boarding house. Lou’s girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Many situations arise leading to slapstick and puns.December Bride
5.5
Overview:
December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series that aired from June 1952 through September 1953.The Millionaire
5
Overview:
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.The DuPont Show with June Allyson
6.3
Overview:
The DuPont Show with June Allyson is an American anthology drama series which aired on CBS from September 21, 1959 to April 3, 1961 with rebroadcasts continuing until June 12, 1961. The series was hosted by actress June Allyson.Bourbon Street Beat
5
Overview:
"Bourbon Street Beat" is a private detective series produced by Warner Brothers Television which aired on the ABC network from October 5, 1959, to July 4, 1960. It featured Richard Long as Rex Randolph, Andrew Duggan as Cal Calhoun, Van Williams as Kenny Madison, and Arlene Howell as Melody Lee Mercer, the secretary at the New Orleans detective agency in which they worked. The show is set in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and revolves around the lives of Rex Randolph (Long) and Cal Calhoun (Duggan), who run a detective agency called Randolph and Calhoun — Special Services. The agency is based in the Absinthe House, a French Quarter nightclub on Bourbon Street.Mr. & Mrs. North
4.333
Overview:
Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry North, a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he is a good amateur detective, and his wife, Pamela, as they solve crimes in New York City.Lock-Up
6.2
Overview:
Lock-Up is an American legal drama series that premiered in syndication in September 1959 and concluded in June 1961. The half-hour episodes had little time for character development or subplots and presented a compact story without embellishment.State Trooper
5
Overview:
State Trooper is an American crime drama set in the 1950s American West, starring Rod Cameron as Rod Blake, an officer of the Nevada Department of Public Safety. The series aired 104 episodes in syndication from September 25, 1956, to June 25, 1959.Vacation Playhouse
7
Overview:
The concept of the series was the showing of unaired and unsold television pilots that did not make the television lineup for CBS. The show was successful during its first few seasons due to the fact that the show's concept, airing unsold and unaired television pilots, was a popular concept in the 1960s. But during its last two seasons on the air, the series did find some trouble due to the fact that the series were running out of pilots to air and, in their 4th season, they began airing repeats from the three seasons prior. During its 1966 summer run, the series aired eights new pilots and two repeats and during its last year airing five new pilots and four repeats.Breaking Point
7.25
Overview:
Breaking Point is an American medical drama that aired on ABC from September 16, 1963, to April 27, 1964, continuing in rebroadcasts until September 7. The series, which was a spinoff of Ben Casey, stars Paul Richards and Eduard Franz. The series was created by Meta Rosenberg.Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Overview:
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.The Secret of Dr. Kildare
5.6
Overview:
Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.The Shop Around the Corner
8.137
Overview:
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.The Bishop's Wife
7
Overview:
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.Woman of the Year
6.892
Overview:
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.Boom Town
6.9
Overview:
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.The Great Rupert
5.6
Overview:
Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel - not only saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever.Mad Love
7.009
Overview:
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.The Big Cat
3.5
Overview:
A city boy arrives in his late mother's birthplace to discover the locals have been pestered by a cougar.She-Wolf of London
5.6
Overview:
A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.Finishing School
6.2
Overview:
Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the director of the school and her mother oppose such a relationship.Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
5.833
Overview:
Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is alternately winked at or slapped every time he sees her. Andy is clueless. On the train Andy meets Kay and Dr. Standish who are both headed for Wainwright. Andy likes Kay, but Dr. Standish also seems to take an interest in her. Things are going well at College with Kay, but the blonde is nice one minute and ignores Andy the next. When Andy finds out that the blonde is really identical twins, he tries to help them out with their father but gets caught at their rooming house after midnight.Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
5.455
Overview:
Andy Hardy goes to college after serving in the war and finds his sweetheart is engaged to someone else.H.M. Pulham, Esq.
6.9
Overview:
A middle-aged businessman who has lived a conservative life according to the routine conventions of society, still remembers the beautiful young woman who once brought him out of his shell.Above Suspicion
6.5
Overview:
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.Out West with the Hardys
6.429
Overview:
Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.The Youngest Profession
5.2
Overview:
Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on misinformation from a meddling old-maid governess, Miss Featherstone, Joan also devotes some time to working on the no-problem marriage of her parents to the extent of hiring Dr. Hercules, the strong man from a side show to pay attention to her mother in order to make her father jealous, despite the good advice received from Walter Pidgeon.Acting
1963Breaking Point (1 Episode) as Unknown
1963Vacation Playhouse (1 Episode) as Emma Madison
1960Route 66 (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959Bourbon Street Beat (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959Lock-Up (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1 Episode) as Mother Superior
1958Andy Hardy Comes Home as Milly Forrest
1957Perry Mason (1 Episode) as Florence Harvey
1956State Trooper (1 Episode) as Unknown
1955Matinee Theater (1 Episode) as Unknown
1955Betrayed Women as Head Guard Darcy
1955The Millionaire (1 Episode) as Miss Kendis
1954The Outlaw's Daughter as Mrs. Merril
1954December Bride (1 Episode) as Unknown
1953A Lion Is in the Streets as Lula May McManamee
1952The Abbott and Costello Show (1 Episode) as Mrs. Bronson
1952Mr. & Mrs. North (1 Episode) as Unknown
1952Wagons West as Mrs. Cook
1952Rodeo as Agatha Cartwright
1952As We Forgive as Unknown
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 Episode) as Wife
1950A Life of Her Own as Smitty
1950The Great Rupert as Mrs.Katie Dingle
1949Roughshod as Ma Wyatt
1949The Big Cat as Mrs. Mary Cooper
1948Rachel and the Stranger as Mrs. Jackson
1947The Bishop's Wife as Mildred Cassaway
1946Love Laughs at Andy Hardy as Milly Forrest
1946Mr. Ace as Alma Rhodes
1946Our Hearts Were Growing Up as Miss Dill
1946Bad Bascomb as Tillie Lovejoy
1946She-Wolf of London as Martha Winthrop
1945Strictly Personal as Helen Matthews
1945She Wouldn't Say Yes as Laura Pitts
1945Our Vines Have Tender Grapes as Mrs. Bjornson
1944Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble as Milly Forrest
1944Broadway Rhythm as Miss Wynn (uncredited)
1943Lost Angel as Rhoda Kitterick
1943Best Foot Forward as Miss Talbert
1943Thousands Cheer as Second Nurse in Frank Morgan Skit
1943Above Suspicion as Aunt Hattie
1943The Youngest Profession as Sister Lassie
1942Andy Hardy's Double Life as Milly Forrest
1942Somewhere I'll Find You as Miss Coulter
1942The Affairs of Martha as Mrs. Justin I. Peacock
1942The Courtship of Andy Hardy as Milly Forrest
1942Woman of the Year as Matron
1942Flag of Mercy as Clara Barton
1941H.M. Pulham, Esq. as Miss Rollo, Harry's Secretary
1941Come Back, Miss Pipps as Miss Pipps (uncredited)
1941Life Begins for Andy Hardy as Milly Forrest
1941Love Crazy as Miss Cecilia Landis
1941Washington Melodrama as Harriet Harringan
1941Barnacle Bill as Aunt Letty
1941Andy Hardy's Private Secretary as Milly Forrest
1941The Trial of Mary Dugan as Miss Matthews
1940Keeping Company as Mrs. Foster
1940Hullabaloo as 'Sue' Merriweather
1940Boom Town as Miss Barnes
1940Andy Hardy Meets Debutante as Milly Forrest
1940The Shop Around the Corner as Flora
1939Judge Hardy and Son as Milly Forrest
1939Remember? as Miss Wilson
1939The Secret of Dr. Kildare as Nora
1939Think First as Policewoman
1939Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever as Milly Forrest
1939Tell No Tales as Miss Brendon
1939Angel of Mercy as Clara Barton (uncredited)
1939The Hardys Ride High as Milly Forrest
1939Four Girls in White as Miss Bennett
1939Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family) as Aunt Millie Forrest
1938Out West with the Hardys as Milly Forrest
1937You're Only Young Once as Milly Forrest
1937First Lady as Mrs. Mason
1937A Family Affair as Milly Forrest
1937The Last of Mrs. Cheyney as Anna
1937Under Cover of Night as Janet Griswald
1936Laughing at Trouble as Mrs. Jennie Nevins
1936Reunion as Ellie
1936Can This Be Dixie? as Miss Beauregard Peachtree
1936Poor Little Rich Girl as Collins
1936The Crime of Dr. Forbes as Dr. Anna Burkhart
1936Little Miss Nobody as Mrs. Lewis
1936Half Angel as Henrietta Hargraves
1936Captain January as Agatha Morgan
1936Everybody's Old Man as Susan Franklin
1935Magnificent Obsession as Mrs. Nancy Ashford
1935Way Down East as Cordelia Peabody
1935O'Shaughnessy's Boy as Aunt Martha
1935Mad Love as Marie
1934Music in the Air as Martha
1934Anne of Green Gables as Mrs. Barry
1934The White Parade as Miss Harrington
1934The Fountain as Sophie Van Leyden
1934Hat, Coat and Glove as The Secretary
1934The Life of Vergie Winters as Winnie Belle
1934Finishing School as Miss Fisher
1934Affairs of a Gentleman as Frances Bennett - Gresham's Secretary
1934Spitfire as Etta Dawson