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Sara Haden is a Actor American born on 16 november 1898 at Galveston (USA)

Sara Haden

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Birth name Sarah Haden
Nationality USA
Birth 16 november 1898 at Galveston (USA)
Death 15 september 1981 (at 82 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)

Sara Haden (November 17, 1899 - September 15, 1981) was a character actress in Hollywood films of the 1930s through the 1950s.

Biography

Elle est la fille de Charlotte Walker (1876-1958), actrice au théâtre à Broadway (New York) et au cinéma (muet principalement).

Sara Haden débute elle-même à Broadway en 1921, dans Macbeth de William Shakespeare, aux côtés de Walter Hampden. Elle joue sur les planches new-yorkaises dans huit autres pièces, l'avant-dernière en 1929, l'ultime en 1938.

Au cinéma, elle contribue à quatre-vingt-quatre films américains, les neuf premiers sortis en 1934 (dont Mademoiselle Hicks de John Cromwell, avec Katharine Hepburn et Robert Young, marquant ses débuts à l'écran). Elle est surtout connue pour son rôle récurrent de la tante Milly Forrest, dans quatorze films (sur seize) de la série cinématographique consacrée à Andy Hardy (interprété par Mickey Rooney, nommé André Hardy en français), depuis A Family Affair en 1937, jusqu'à Andy Hardy comes Home en 1958 (avec lequel elle termine sa carrière au cinéma), la plupart d'entre eux réalisés par George B. Seitz. Cette série est produite par la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, au sein de laquelle l'actrice travaille souvent (mais non exclusivement).

Le reste de sa filmographie comprend notamment plusieurs films biens connus, comme Le Secret magnifique de John M. Stahl (version de 1935, avec Irene Dunne et Robert Taylor), The Shop Around the Corner d'Ernst Lubitsch (1940, avec James Stewart et Margaret Sullavan), Honni soit qui mal y pense d'Henry Koster (1947, avec Cary Grant, Loretta Young et David Niven), ou encore Ma vie à moi de George Cukor (1950, avec Lana Turner et Ray Milland). Notons ici que Sara Haden croise d'abord Cukor (alors metteur en scène) à Broadway, en 1927-1928, à l'occasion de Trigger, avec Walter Connolly ; elle y joue le rôle d’Etta Dawson, qu'elle reprend dans l'adaptation au cinéma de cette pièce (son premier film pré-cité de 1934, Mademoiselle Hicks).

Enfin, à la télévision, elle participe à vingt-huit séries (ex. : Perry Mason) entre 1951 et 1965, année où elle se retire.

Usually with

Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
(36 films)
David Snell
David Snell
(16 films)
Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney
(15 films)
Fay Holden
Fay Holden
(15 films)
Ann Rutherford
Ann Rutherford
(13 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Sara Haden (75 films)

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Actress

Andy Hardy Comes Home, 1h20
Directed by Howard W. Koch
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Mickey Rooney, Patricia Breslin, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker, Sara Haden, Joey Forman
Roles Milly Forrest
Rating58% 2.9436952.9436952.9436952.9436952.943695
Returning to his home town of Carvel after several years absence - and twelve years since the last Andy Hardy movie - Andrew Hardy (Mickey Rooney), now a high-flying west coast lawyer, reminiscences about his past (with flashbacks to his earlier filmed exploits alongside Judy Garland and Esther Williams et al.) and reconnects with his mother, aunt, sister (returning co-stars Fay Holden, Sara Haden and Cecilia Parker respectively) and nephew Jimmy (Johnny Weissmuller, Jr.) as he attempts to convince the skeptical small-townsfolk to let his company build a factory there.
A Lion Is in the Streets, 1h28
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors James Cagney, Barbara Hale, Anne Francis, Warner Anderson, John McIntire, Jeanne Cagney
Roles Lula May McManamee
Rating60% 3.047553.047553.047553.047553.04755
Charismatic roving peddler Hank Martin (James Cagney) falls in love at first sight with schoolteacher Verity Wade (Barbara Hale) and soon marries her. On their wedding day, he rents a ramshackle home from his upper class lawyer friend Jules Bolduc (Warner Anderson). Hank rounds up some of his many friends to fix up the place, but Verity begins to realize that he is not as nice as he appears to be; while they do the work, he sees nothing wrong in going inside to read a law book. He confides to her that it is all a matter of manipulating people the right way.
Rodeo
Rodeo (1952)
, 1h10
Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Themes Sports films
Actors Jane Nigh, John Archer, Wallace Ford, Gary Gray, Frances Rafferty, Sara Haden
Roles Agatha Cartwright
Rating62% 3.1357953.1357953.1357953.1357953.135795
A Life of Her Own, 1h48
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lana Turner, Ray Milland, Louis Calhern, Ann Dvorak, Barry Sullivan, Tom Ewell
Roles Smitty
Rating61% 3.095193.095193.095193.095193.09519
Lily Brannel James leaves her small home town in Kansas for New York City, and she is hired by the Thomas Caraway Model Agency. She befriends former top model Mary Ashlon, who becomes her mentor. Mary is depressed about her foundering career and, following a night of excessive drinking, she commits suicide.
The Great Rupert, 1h27
Directed by Irving Pichel
Genres Comedy
Themes Christmas films
Actors Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake, Frank Orth, Sara Haden, Queenie Smith
Roles Mrs.Katie Dingle
Rating63% 3.195223.195223.195223.195223.19522
Rosalinda Amendola, the daughter of happy but impoverished former acrobats is in love with the boy next door, aspiring composer Pete Dingle. Though Pete's parents are wealthy, his miserly father Frank insists on hiding his money from his investments in the wall of their family home.
The Big Cat, 1h15
Directed by Noel M. Smith, Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors Lon McCallister, Peggy Ann Garner, Preston Foster, Forrest Tucker, Skip Homeier, Sara Haden
Roles Mrs. Mary Cooper
Rating55% 2.759292.759292.759292.759292.75929
Drought during the 1930s forces a large cougar to come down from the high country in Utah to prey on farmers' cattle. This has prompted many farmers to pursue and kill the cat, but so far all have failed.
Roughshod
Roughshod (1949)
, 1h28
Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Gloria Grahame, Robert Sterling, John Ireland, Claude Jarman Jr., Martha Hyer, Jeff Donnell
Roles Ma Wyatt
Rating65% 3.289363.289363.289363.289363.28936
Three escaped convicts led by Lednov kill three cowboys in Nevada and steal their clothes. They ride on looking for revenge against a rancher, Clay Phillips, who is warned by friend Jed Graham to get out of town.
Rachel and the Stranger, 1h20
Directed by Norman Foster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors Loretta Young, William Holden, Robert Mitchum, Tom Tully, Gary Gray, Sara Haden
Roles Mrs. Jackson
Rating69% 3.493673.493673.493673.493673.49367
In colonial America, David Harvey (William Holden), a recent widower living in the wilderness, decides that his young boy Davey (Gary Gray) needs a woman around to help raise him. He goes to the nearest settlement and consults Parson Jackson (Tom Tully). David gets talked into buying the contract of an indentured servant named Rachel (Loretta Young) and marrying her.
The Bishop's Wife, 1h49
Directed by Henry Koster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Christmas films, Films about religion, Films about angels
Actors Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley, James Gleason, Gladys Cooper
Roles Mildred Cassaway
Rating75% 3.7967353.7967353.7967353.7967353.796735
Bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven), troubled with funding the building of a new cathedral, prays for divine guidance. His plea is seemingly answered by a suave angel named Dudley (Cary Grant), who reveals his identity only to the clergyman.
Bad Bascomb
Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Wallace Beery, Margaret O'Brien, Marjorie Main, J. Carrol Naish, Joseph Crehan, Frances Rafferty
Roles Tillie Lovejoy
Rating67% 3.390313.390313.390313.390313.39031
"Bad" Bascomb (Beery) is a notorious outlaw wanted by federal marshals after outwitting every group sent to capture him. He and fellow bandit Bart Ramsay (Naish), a cold-blooded killer, have again eluded the marshalls by joining a Mormon wagon train heading to Utah. They pretend to be helpful, and Bascomb becomes fond of an admiring little girl played by O'Brien. Beery eventually distances himself from the other thief and saves the wagon train from an attack by Indians, before being taken captive by the law at the end of the movie.
Mr. Ace
Mr. Ace (1946)
, 1h24
Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Genres Drama
Actors George Raft, Sylvia Sidney, Stanley Ridges, Jerome Cowan, Sara Haden, Bess Flowers
Roles Alma Rhodes
Rating60% 3.0460053.0460053.0460053.0460053.046005
Margaret Wyndham Chase (Sylvia Sidney) wants to run for governor and needs the help of a political boss named Eddie Ace (George Raft) to stand a chance of making it all the way. In an attempt to grease him, she invites him to a dinner where also her other powerful friends will be attending.
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy, 1h33
Directed by Willis Goldbeck
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Sara Haden, Bonita Granville, Lina Romay, Fay Holden
Roles Milly Forrest
Rating58% 2.9497252.9497252.9497252.9497252.949725
The story starts in the small town of Carvel, where the honorable judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) and his wife Emily (Fay Holden) eagerly await their son's return from the military. Andy (Mickey Rooney) has received an honorable discharge from the Army after a service of two years. His parents are unaware of the fact that Andy is looking to get back with his college sweetheart Kay (Bonita Granville). One day soon after Andy's homecoming, his mother Emily observes him looking at store window displays of wedding rings and baby clothing, and suspects that her son must be in love. Emily's suspicions are soon confirmed when Andy, who usually has had an eye for girls, barely notices the very attractive singer, Isobel Gonzales (Lina Romay), when they are introduced.
She-Wolf of London, 1h1
Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors June Lockhart, Don Porter, Lloyd Corrigan, Dennis Hoey, Sara Haden, Martin Kosleck
Roles Martha Winthrop
Rating52% 2.6060952.6060952.6060952.6060952.606095
Phyllis Allenby is a young and beautiful woman who is soon to be married to lawyer and boyfriend Barry Lanfield. Phyllis is living at the Allenby Mansion without the protection of a male, along with her aunt Martha and her cousin Carol and the servant Hannah. As the wedding date approaches, London is shocked by a series of murders at the local park, where the victims are discovered with throats ripped out. Many of the detectives at Scotland Yard begin murmuring about werewolves, while Inspector Pierce believes the opposite and suspects strange activity at the Allenby Mansion (which is near the park), where the "Wolf-Woman" is seen prowling at night and heading for the park. Phyllis becomes extremely terrified and anxious, since she is convinced that she is the "Wolf-Woman", deeply believing in the legend of the so-called "Curse of the Allenbys". Aunt Martha tries to convince Phyllis how ridiculous the legend sounds, while she (Aunt Martha) and Carol are suspicious in their own ways. Phyllis each day denies Barry visiting her, and when a suspicious detective is murdered soon after he visits the mansion in the same way the other victims perished, Barry begins believing that something else is going on beside the so-called "Werewolf murders" and makes his own investigations both of the park and the mansion.
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, 1h45
Directed by Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien, James Craig, Frances Gifford, Agnes Moorehead, Morris Carnovsky
Roles Mrs. Bjornson
Rating75% 3.793073.793073.793073.793073.79307
The story is about a Norwegian immigrant farmer in Wisconsin, Martinius Jacobson (Edward G. Robinson), his wife Bruna (Agnes Moorehead) and their seven-year-old daughter Selma (Margaret O'Brien), who is often bedeviled by her playmate and five-year-old cousin, Arnold (Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins). Martinius simply wants to work his land and be a loving husband and father to his family. The one great ambition in the life of Martinius is to build a new barn, but tragedy strikes. How the family copes with that is the core and the charm of the film