Full Name Katherine Haden Role Character actress Name Sara Haden | Years active 1921–1965 Occupation Actress | |
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Died September 15, 1981, Woodland Hills, California, United States Spouse Richard Abbott (m. 1921–1948) Parents Charlotte Walker, John Haden Movies The Shop Around the Corner, She‑Wolf of London, Captain January, Mad Love, Love Laughs at Andy Har Similar People George B Seitz, Charlotte Walker, Jean Yarbrough, David Snell, Karl Freund | ||
Sara Haden (November 17, 1898 – September 15, 1981) was a character actress in Hollywood films of the 1930s through the 1950s.
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Early life
She was born Catherine Haden in 1898 in Galveston, Texas, a daughter of Dr. John Brannum Haden (1871-1910) and character actress, Charlotte Walker, later active in silent films and early talkies. She was always cast in character roles. After their parents' divorce, Haden and her elder sister, Beatrice Shelton Haden (born 1897), attended Sacred Heart Academy in Galveston, where they boarded during school terms.
Career
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 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).
Her other films 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 also had a guest appearance on Perry Mason as Florence Harvey in the 1959 episode, "The Case of the Romantic Rogue".
Personal life and death
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.