
Sara Haden
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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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.044 |
Birthday | 1898-11-16 |
Place of Birth | Galveston, Texas, USA |
Also Known As | Catherine Haden, Sarah Haden, Sarah Hayden, Sara Hayden, |

1941

Come Back, Miss Pipps
6/1
On Mickey's birthday, Miss Pipps, the school teacher, serves cake and ice cream during school hours. Sour old Mr. Pratt, head of the school board, stu...
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Come Back, Miss Pipps

1940

The Shop Around the Corner
8.137/742
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...
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The Shop Around the Corner

1942

Woman of the Year
6.9/147
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' hecti...
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Woman of the Year

1941

Love Crazy
7.1/34
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
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Love Crazy

1943

Above Suspicion
6.5/30
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
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Above Suspicion

1935

Mad Love
6.9/110
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...
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1946

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
5.3/10
Andy Hardy goes to college after serving in the war and finds his sweetheart is engaged to someone else.
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1943

Thousands Cheer
6.333/18
Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a fe...
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1941

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
5.3/7
All set to graduate from high school , Andy Hardy flunks his English exam -- in spite of the fact that Aunt Milly is his teacher, and that the Judge h...
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1941

Life Begins for Andy Hardy
5.7/6
With his high school graduation behind him, Andy Hardy decides that as an adult, it's time to start living his life. Judge Hardy had hoped that his so...
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Life Begins for Andy Hardy

1940

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
5.1/8
Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and ev...
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1934

Anne of Green Gables
5.7/22
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1946

She-Wolf of London
5.6/68
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1947

The Bishop's Wife
7.038/247
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The Bishop's Wife

1950

The Great Rupert
5.7/26
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1934

The White Parade
6/2
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1944

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
5.7/8
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 s...
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Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

1936

Captain January
6.7/21
A little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding s...
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1938

Out West with the Hardys
6.3/6
Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.
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Out West with the Hardys

1939

Judge Hardy and Son
5.3/5
Judge Hardy guides Andy through problems with girls, money and an essay contest.
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Judge Hardy and Son

1955

Betrayed Women
4.7/6
Love-starved gun molls (Carole Mathews, Beverly Michaels) escape from a prison farm where matrons make their lives miserable.
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Betrayed Women

1945

She Wouldn't Say Yes
5.9/5
Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with wa...
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She Wouldn't Say Yes

1943

The Youngest Profession
5.2/5
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 a...
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The Youngest Profession

1937

First Lady
6.2/6
A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.
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First Lady

1953

A Lion Is in the Streets
5.5/13
A charismatic peddler from the Bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?
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1937

Under Cover of Night
5.7/3
A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's research, then killed her.
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Under Cover of Night

1937

A Family Affair
5.9/16
Judge Hardy faces problems at work and at home. Powerful men in town are upset with his decisions and want to see him impeached; his daughters, Joan a...
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A Family Affair

1958

Andy Hardy Comes Home
4.5/12
Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics.
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1939

Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)
5.3/3
Andy Hardy and the rest of the Hardy family wake up Christmas morning to gifts and give a holiday greeting to viewers.
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1934

Hat, Coat and Glove
5.5/2
A prominent New York attorney defends his estranged wife's lover, who's been charged with the murder of a model in Greenwich Village.
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1949

The Big Cat
4/5
A city boy arrives in his late mother's birthplace to discover the locals have been pestered by a cougar.
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1941

Barnacle Bill
7.7/3
A fishing boat captain searches for romance in hopes of improving his financial picture.
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1950

A Life of Her Own
5.3/18
A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.
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1935

O'Shaughnessy's Boy
6/4
A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.
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O'Shaughnessy's Boy

1939

Remember?
5.8/5
Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But Jeff...
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1952

Wagons West
6/1
Travelers heading west in a wagon train, under repeated assault by Indians, discover someone in their group is supplying rifles to their attackers.
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1935

Way Down East
3/2
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret i...
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1936

Little Miss Nobody
6/1
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
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1942

Andy Hardy's Double Life
4.6/9
Andy is about to head off to college but he's got a few things to take care of before leaving. For starters, he must try and sell his junk car for $20...
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1934

The Fountain
9.5/1
Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von...
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The Fountain

1942

The Courtship of Andy Hardy
5.6/8
While Judge Hardy handles a couple's divorce, Andy takes a shine to their shy daughter.
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The Courtship of Andy Hardy

1941

H.M. Pulham, Esq.
6.9/9
A middle-aged businessman who has lived a conservative life according to the routine conventions of society, still remembers the beautiful young woman...
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H.M. Pulham, Esq.

1940

Boom Town
6.9/52
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 t...
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1934

The Life of Vergie Winters
5.9/7
A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues t...
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1942

Somewhere I'll Find You
5.9/12
Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east.
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Somewhere I'll Find You

1941

Washington Melodrama
5/4
An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved...
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Washington Melodrama

1935

Magnificent Obsession
7.4/18
A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
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Magnificent Obsession

1952

Rodeo
0/0
Nancy Cartwright is determined to collect an $1,800 feed bill owed to her father Harry Cartwright by a rodeo association. Instead, she is talked into...
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Rodeo

1936

Half Angel
0/0
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.
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Half Angel

1936

Poor Little Rich Girl
6.6/19
Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en...
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Poor Little Rich Girl

1936

Reunion
0/0
Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into the world by the doctor, John Luke, known for del...
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Reunion

1937

You're Only Young Once
5.5/9
Andy Hardy and his sister find romance during a family vacation in Catalina.
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You're Only Young Once

1939

Tell No Tales
5.3/5
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
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Tell No Tales

1940

Keeping Company
6.4/4
Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.
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Keeping Company

1934

Finishing School
6.2/16
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 dir...
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Finishing School

1939

Four Girls in White
6.3/3
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
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Four Girls in White

1936

Laughing at Trouble
6/1
A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the re...
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Laughing at Trouble

1939

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
5.5/11
Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as m...
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Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

1934

Affairs of a Gentleman
2/2
When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
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Affairs of a Gentleman

1934

Spitfire
5.4/13
Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community. She falls for an engineer building a...
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Spitfire

1946

Mr. Ace
5.6/7
A rich society woman uses a gangster to win a congressional election.
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Mr. Ace

1939

The Hardys Ride High
6/3
Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney George Irving, that he could be the heir to 2 million...
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The Hardys Ride High

1939

The Secret of Dr. Kildare
5.6/13
Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.
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The Secret of Dr. Kildare

1946

Our Hearts Were Growing Up
6.2/2
Russell and Lynn are a pair of college students in the 1920s. They get mixed up with kind-hearted bootlegger Donlevy who helps them get their boy frie...
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Our Hearts Were Growing Up

1943

Best Foot Forward
6/4
Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hun...
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Best Foot Forward

1945

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
6.9/17
Welcome to Fuller Junction, Wisconsin, a friendly small town settled by Norwegian farmers. Here we see the exploits of two young cousins, Selma and A...
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Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

1954

The Outlaw's Daughter
0/0
Led astray by outlaw leader Jess, the "outlaw's daughter" Kate joins Jess' gang and follows in her dad's footsteps. Town marshal Dan tries his best to...
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The Outlaw's Daughter

1941

The Trial of Mary Dugan
5/1
Mary Dugan is a young woman accused of murdering her billionaire lover. In the process, his defense lawyer acts wrongly against them, and is replaced...
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The Trial of Mary Dugan

1936

The Crime of Dr. Forbes
0/0
Injured scientist Eric Godfrey asks his protege to give him a fatal dose of opiates to end his misery. When he dies the doctor is accused of murder.
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The Crime of Dr. Forbes

1934

Music in the Air
4.8/6
A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.
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Music in the Air

1946

Bad Bascomb
6.2/5
A western bandit is reformed by his love for a little girl.
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Bad Bascomb

1948

Rachel and the Stranger
6.2/31
A widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of a passing stranger threatens their burgeoning relationship.
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Rachel and the Stranger

1940

Hullabaloo
4/1
A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.
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Hullabaloo

1944

Broadway Rhythm
5.5/2
Broadway producer Johnny Demming is only interested in big-name talent and scoffs that his sister, father and other small-time talent could be used in...
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Broadway Rhythm

1939

Angel of Mercy
6/1
This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross.
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Angel of Mercy

1939

Think First
7/1
Episode 24 of the Crime Does Not Pay series. Margie Smith (Laraine Day) works as a waitress at a drive in restaurant. She likes to date and look nice...
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Think First

1943

Lost Angel
7.5/6
Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts A...
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Lost Angel

1942

The Affairs of Martha
5.8/5
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
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The Affairs of Martha

1949

Roughshod
5.3/11
Rancher Clay and his brother, Steve, head out across the Sonora mountain pass, followed by Lednov, an ex-con seeking revenge on Clay for putting him b...
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Roughshod

1942

Flag of Mercy
0/0
The 1939 dramatic short "Angel of Mercy," about Red Cross founder Clara Barton, is reedited to relate the story to America's involvement in World War...
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Flag of Mercy

1945

Strictly Personal
0/0
In this documentary short film, Helen Matthews explains to women members of the U.S. Army proper ways to maintain a healthy body during military servi...
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Strictly Personal

1937

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
6.025/20
A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

1936

Can This Be Dixie?
0/0
A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.
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Can This Be Dixie?

1936

Everybody's Old Man
0/0
An elderly businessman thinking about aging and death takes time off to help teach a dead friend's children about life and business.
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