By Vlad Zakh · April 14, 2026
Sara Haden brought a warm, dependable presence to Hollywood and is best remembered as the beloved aunt in the long-running Andy Hardy series. Boom Town tests two oil wildcatters’ friendship, The Shop Around the Corner has feuding coworkers falling in love as pen pals, Captain January faces an orphan with separation from her lighthouse keeper, and Magnificent Obsession blinds a woman through a playboy’s carelessness. Anne of Green Gables and Spitfire round out the list.
01 Two wildcatting oilmen's decades-long friendship and rivalry is complicated by fortune, failure and the same woman.
Directed by Jack Conway · 1h 59m · Rated NR
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02 Two bickering coworkers are secretly, unknowingly falling in love as anonymous pen pals.
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch · 1h 39m · Rated NR
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03 Sara Haden features in this Shirley Temple film about an orphaned girl raised by a kindly lighthouse keeper who faces separation when relatives appear.
Directed by David Butler · 1h 17m · Rated G
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04 Betty Furness features in this melodrama about a reckless playboy whose carelessness blinds a woman, inspiring his secret devotion to her recovery.
Directed by John M. Stahl · 1h 52m · Rated NR
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05 An imaginative orphan girl wins over a reluctant adoptive family with her spirited charm.
Directed by George Nichols Jr. · 1h 18m · Rated NR
06 Sara Haden features in this Katharine Hepburn drama about a superstitious backwoods faith healer whose unconventional ways stir up trouble and romance in her community.
Directed by John Cromwell · 1h 27m · Rated NR
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