Sara Haden
Sara Haden ( born November 17, 1898 in Galveston, Texas, † September 15, 1981 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles; actually Katherine Haden ) was an American theater and film actress.
Life
Childhood and youth
Sara Haden was the second daughter of John Brannum Haden (1871-1931), a physician, and the theater and film actress Charlotte Walker (1876-1958) in Galveston, Texas, to the world. After her parents divorced in 1908, Sara Haden accompanied with her one years older sister Beatrice 's mother on theater tours, why Haden repeatedly changed schools after visiting the Dominican Boarding School in Galveston. She attended schools in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in Charleston, South Carolina, New Jersey and the girls' school St. Mary's in Garden City on Long Iceland.
First stage performances
When her mother at the Belasco Theatre in Washington, DC guested for a performance of Zaza and a young actress turned out due to illness, Haden jumped for this one. Haden's performance was well received, and she still successfully sought during their stay in Washington for a supporting role in a production of Ibsen's A Doll's House. After graduating from St. Mary's Haden traveled to Europe. In 1918 she returned to the United States to perform with her mother in the play Nancy Lee. Her mother was indeed the view that they are not tough enough to be an acting career, but settled Haden not dissuade to focus on acting. With Walter Hampden Shakespearean Repertory Company she appeared in 1921 in Macbeth for the first time on Broadway. Then we saw it in London in the theater, where she performed with Lucille La Verne in Lula Vollmer's Sun -Up. Back in New York she appeared in 1925 in Frederick Lonsdale's caper comedy The Last of Mrs. Cheyney.
Film career
End 1927 to early 1928, played Sara Haden, directed by George Cukor, the Etta Dawson in trigger, another play by Lula Vollmer on a boyish wonder healer. In 1933, Cukor was preparing a film adaptation of the play in Hollywood. Vollmer was also involved as a writer on the script and suggested that Haden took her stage role in the film. Haden came so 1934 for her first screen appearance in the published by RKO Pictures under the title Spitfire film in which Katharine Hepburn played the lead role and in which ultimately John Cromwell had led the Director.
It was followed by other appearances in movies by RKO, but it was her role of a prudish secretary in the musical comedy dance of love (1934 ) of the Fox Film Corporation, which established Haden on a specific role type. From then on it was mostly an old maid, busy strict teacher or busy office force and entered it on older and unassuming as she was. An article in the Herald Tribune from 1946 described it as " an actress with a sarcastic tongue and a face that suddenly freeze " could ( "the actress with the sarcastic tongue and the visage did can be turned into an ice pack at a moment 's notice" ). With "I 'm just an old block of ice. Nobody loves me. " ( " I'm just an old frozen face. Nobody loves me. " ) Is said to have summed up her screen image itself. Because of their role of a grumpy official of the school board, the child star Shirley Temple, Shirley Ahoy! (1936 ) want to put in an orphanage, Haden was his own words of children who had seen the film, shunned. Even her own nephew to her ( " baleful eyes" ) have met with " ominous sight" because of it.
In 1937 Sara Haden a contract with MGM, where as before was used in numerous supporting roles. For example, in the thriller Under Cover of Night ( 1937), in which she acted like a physicist whose husband spends their findings as his and they eventually kill as she gets ready to leave him. In the same year she was first seen in the role of unmarried Aunt Milly in A Family Affair, the first part of MGM's Andy Hardy series. With the exception of two films, she has held this role in all parts of the long-lived series in which Mickey Rooney played the title role of Andy Hardy. They acted as Aunt Milly mostly in the background, she stood in the sixth part of The Hardys Ride High (1939 ) exceptionally little more in the center of the action, as you Aunt Milly conceded an admirer and they aufhübschen and allowed to show more emotions. In other Comedies saw Haden over the years. In Remember? (1939 ), she was again occupied opposite Robert Taylor and Greer Garson as a secretary. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, she came as a saleswoman flora in the romantic comedy The Shop Around the (1940 ) are used. In a revival of the Andy Hardy series entitled Andy Hardy Comes Home 1958 she had her last screen appearance. In the early 1950s she joined sometimes also on television. Guest appearances on such series as they had Perry Mason (1959) and Bonanza (1962). In 1965, she finally retired from show business.
Private life
The actor Richard Abbott (actually Richard Vandenberg, 1899-1986 ), who moved into real estate later, Haden was married from 1921 until the divorce in 1948. The marriage produced no children were born. Sara Haden died in 1981 at an unspecified illness at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills. She was buried at the Old City Cemetery in her hometown of Galveston, where there is also the grave of her mother.