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Sara Haden
Sara Haden
Age 82 years (Nov 16, 1898 – Sep 15, 1981)
Birthplace Galveston, Texas, USA
Movies 82
TV Shows 5

Sara Haden

Sara Haden has spent most of a working life as an American actress known to audiences from a long list of titles rather than from one. The count stands at 87 titles, and the range inside it is wide. In cinemas, 'The Shop Around the Corner' is the work that stuck — Flora, specifically. She also turns up in 'The Bishop's Wife'. She started at 36.
Sara Haden has spent most of a working life as an American actress known to audiences from a long list of titles rather than from one. The count stands at 87 titles, and the range inside it is wide. In cinemas, 'The Shop Around the Corner' is the work that stuck — Flora, specifically. She also turns up in 'The Bishop's Wife'. She started at 36.
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Andy Hardy Comes Home
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The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Mother Superior
★ 6.8
1959Season 1
TV
Andy Hardy Comes Home
Milly Forrest
★ 5.0
1958
Film
Perry Mason
Florence Harvey
★ 7.7
1958Season 2
TV
The Millionaire
Miss Kendis
★ 5.8
1955Season 2
TV
Betrayed Women
Head Guard Darcy
★ 5.1
1955
Film
The Outlaw's Daughter
Mrs. Merril
★ 8.0
1954
Film
The Abbott and Costello Show
Mrs. Bronson
★ 7.2
1953Season 2
TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Wife
★ 8.8
1953Season 3
TV
A Lion Is in the Streets
Lula May McManamee
★ 5.4
1953
Film
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Sara Haden still alive?
Sara Haden passed away on September 15, 1981 at age 82.
What are the most famous roles of Sara Haden?
Sara Haden is best known for roles in The Shop Around the Corner, The Bishop's Wife, Woman of the Year.
How many movies has Sara Haden been in?
Over a 47-year career (since 1934), Sara Haden has appeared in 82 movies and 5 TV shows.
What was Sara Haden's first movie?
The career of Sara Haden began with Spitfire (1934).
What is Sara Haden's most recent movie or series?
Sara Haden's most recent release is Breaking Point, which premiered on September 16, 1963.
What TV shows has Sara Haden appeared in?
On television, Sara Haden has appeared in Perry Mason, The Abbott and Costello Show, Route 66, Hallmark Hall of Fame.
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Sara Haden
Sara Haden
1898-11-16 · Galveston, Texas, USA

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.

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