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Sara Haden was a character actress in Hollywood films of the 1930's through the 1950's. She was born November 17, 1899 (some sources say 1897) in Galveston, Texas. She passed away September 15, 1981. Haden was the daughter of another character actress, Charlotte Walker, who was active in silent films and early talkies. Haden made her film debut in 1934 (one year after her mother's retirement) in the Katharine Hepburn vehicle Spitfire. Haden later became a MGM contract player in the late 1930's and had smallish roles in many of the studios films, most notably in the Andy Hardy series starring Mickey Rooney cast as the spinsterish Aunt Polly. Haden made her last film in 1958 but was active on television up until a 1965 guest spot on Dr. Kildare. She was most notable for her stern, humorless ones such as a truant officer in Shirley Temple's Captain January (1936) yet she could play sweet, gentle characters, notably the much-loved teacher Miss Pipps who is unjustly fired in the Our Gang comedy "Come Back Miss Pipps" (1941).

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