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Sep 22, 1981 · She was 82 years old. Miss Haden played the grouch through 15 roles in a two-year period in the 30's.
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).
She was 82 years old. Miss Haden played the grouch through 15 roles in a two-year period in the 30's. She was born in Galveston, Tex., the daughter of Charlotte Walker, a silent-screen actress, an d began her career in 1934, playing an office girl in ''Spitfire,'' the first of her 70 movies.
Appeared on Broadway (1920s); made film debut in Spitfire (1934); appeared in over 70 films, including Anne of Green Gables, Way Down East, Magnificent Obsession, Captain January, Little Miss Marker, Poor Little Rich Girl, The Shop Around the Corner and Woman of the Year; also appeared in recurring role of Aunt Milly in "Andy Hardy" series.
Sara began her screen career in 1934, playing Etta Dawson in Spitfire (1934), thereby reprising her original Broadway performance in "Trigger". However, with her schoolmarmish looks she was quickly typecast as austere spinsters, eccentric aunts and crotchety dowagers.
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- Galveston, Texas, USA
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- Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
SPITFIRE (RKO Radio Pictures, 1934), directed by John Cromwell, stars Katharine Hepburn in one of her most unusual movie roles, unusual by sense of her casting rather than its story.
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Jun 17, 2021 · This modest tale centers on wo engineers building a dam in the mountains, John Stafford (Robert Young) and George Fleetwood (Ralph Bellamy), who become attracted to the hillbilly “spitfire” Trigger Hicks (Katharine Hepburn), the local faith healer.
