Sarah Padden

Birthday:
10/15/1881
Place of birth:
Sunderland, England, UK:
Biography:
Sarah Padden was a character actress in theater and vaudeville from Chicago, Illinois. She performed on stage in the early 20th century. She is noted for her expressive voice and for her psychological studies of the characters she portrayed. Her finest single-act performance was in The Clod, a stage production in which she played an uneducated woman who lived on a farm during the American Civil War. Padden was a featured player on the Orpheum Circuit, Inc.. She had a role in His Grace de Grammont, a romantic comedy by Clyde Fitch which came to the Park Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts in September 1905. The production starred Skinner and was based on the life of a chevalier in the court of Charles II. Padden appeared again with Skinner in a four-act play produced by Charles Frohman, The Honor of the Family, by Emile Fabre, which was presented in New Rochelle, New York in September 1907. Another of her theatrical parts was in Hell-Bent Fer Heaven, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Hatcher Hughes. It was performed at the Wilkes Orange Grove Theater (Majestic Theater), 845 South Broadway (Los Angeles), in November 1925. She was also an active screen actress from 1926 to 1958, appearing in 178 films and TV shows. In 1938, she played Ma Thayer in MGM's Rich Man Poor Girl, directed by Reinhold Schunzel and starring Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, and Lana Turner. Bill Harrison (Robert Young) a wealthy young businessman moves in with secretary girlfriend Joan Thayer's (Ruth Hussey) eccentric family to convince her they can make their marriage work. In 1941, she played wealthy spinster Aunt Cassandra ("Cassie") Hildegarde Denham in Murder by Invitation, directed by Phil Rosen and starring Wallace Ford and Marian Marsh. In this "closed room" murder comedy, after they unsuccessfully attempt to have her declared legally insane to gain control of her fortune, her nephews and nieces are invited to a week's visit at her mansion where they are murdered one by one.

Credits

Girl with an Itch (1958)
as Cookie
Screaming Mimi (1958)
as Landlady
The Kettles in the Ozarks (1956)
as Mrs. Tinware
Prince of Players (1955)
as Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited)
Big Jim McLain (1952)
as Mrs. Lexiter
Utah Wagon Train (1951)
as Sarah Wendover
The Missourians (1950)
as Mother Kovacs
Again Pioneers (1950)
as Ma Ashby
A Life of Her Own (1950)
as Betsy Ross Hotel Overseer (uncredited)
Gunslingers (1950)
as Rawhide Rosie Rawlins
House by the River (1950)
as Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook
Range Justice (1949)
as Ma Curtis
Homicide (1949)
as Mrs. Webb
Frontier Revenge (1948)
as Widow Owens
The Dude Goes West (1948)
as Mrs. Hallihan
The Return of the Whistler (1948)
as Mrs. Hulskamp
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad (1948)
as Mom Palooka
Joe Palooka in the Knockout (1947)
as Mom Palooka
Possessed (1947)
as Mrs. Norris, the Caretaker’s Wife (uncredited)
Love and Learn (1947)
as Mrs. Grant (uncredited)
Ramrod (1947)
as Mrs. Parks
Trail Street (1947)
as Mrs. Ferguson (uncredited)
That Brennan Girl (1946)
as Mrs. Graves, the Nice Landlady
Wild West (1946)
as Carrie Bannister
My Dog Shep (1946)
as Carrie Hodgkins
Gentleman Joe Palooka (1946)
as Mom Palooka
Angel on My Shoulder (1946)
as Agatha (uncredited)
Joe Palooka, Champ (1946)
as Mom Palooka
So Goes My Love (1946)
as Bridget
Idea Girl (1946)
as Old Lady
Dakota (1945)
as Mrs. Plummer
Riders of the Dawn (1945)
as Melinda Pringle
Song of Old Wyoming (1945)
as Ma Conway
Marshal of Laredo (1945)
as Mrs. Randall
Apology for Murder (1945)
as Maggie
Wildfire (1945)
as Aunt Agatha
The Master Key (1945)
as Aggie
Identity Unknown (1945)
as Mrs. Anderson
Ghost Guns (1944)
as Aunt Sally
Girl Rush (1944)
as Mrs. Emma Mason
San Diego I Love You (1944)
as Mrs. Gulliver (uncredited)
Casanova Brown (1944)
as Mrs. Smith
Trail to Gunsight (1944)
as Grandma Wagner
Summer Storm (1944)
as Beggar Woman (uncredited)
Range Law (1944)
as Boots Annie
This Is the Life (1944)
as Sarah (uncredited)
The Navy Way (1944)
as Mrs. Margaret Gimble
The Navy Way (1944)
as Mrs. Margaret Gimble (uncredited)
So This Is Washington (1943)
as Aunt Charity Speers
Family Troubles (1943)
as Mrs. Jones
Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
as Mrs. Georgia Dvorak
Assignment in Brittany (1943)
as Albertine
Riders of the West (1942)
as Ma Turner
Law and Order (1942)
as Mary Todd
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
as Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
Lady in a Jam (1942)
as Miner’s Wife (uncredited)
The Mad Monster (1942)
as Grandmother
This Gun for Hire (1942)
as Mrs. Mason (uncredited)
Heart of the Rio Grande (1942)
as 'Skipper' Forbes
Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
as Mrs. Kimball
Private Snuffy Smith (1942)
as Lowizie Smith
The Power of God (1942)
as Esther Worne
The Corsican Brothers (1941)
as Nurse
Reg'lar Fellers (1941)
as Hetty Carter
Murder by Invitation (1941)
as Cassandra Hildegard Denham
A Woman's Face (1941)
as Police Matron
City of Missing Girls (1941)
as Mrs. Randolph
The Man Who Lost Himself (1941)
as Maid
In Old Colorado (1941)
as Ma Harriet Woods
Chad Hanna (1940)
as Mrs. Todd
Lone Star Raiders (1940)
as Lydia 'Granny' Phelps
Son of the Navy (1940)
as Mrs. Baker - Landlady
Forgotten Girls (1940)
as Miss Donaldson
I Stole a Million (1939)
as Lady in Post Office (uncredited)
Should a Girl Marry? (1939)
as Mrs. Wilson
The Zero Hour (1939)
as Sister Theodosia
Let Freedom Ring (1939)
as 'Ma' Logan
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)
as Woman Wanting Needle Threaded (uncredited)
Off the Record (1939)
as Mrs. Fallon (uncredited)
Little Orphan Annie (1938)
as Mrs. Nora Moriarty
Little Tough Guys in Society (1938)
as Victim
Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938)
as Ma
Woman Against Woman (1938)
as Dora
Romance of the Limberlost (1938)
as Sarah
Women in Prison (1938)
as Martha Wilson
Exiled to Shanghai (1937)
as Aunt Jane
Youth on Parole (1937)
as Mrs. Blair
Anna Karenina (1935)
as Governess
Mad Love (1935)
as Crippled Girl's Mother (Uncredited)
Stranded (1935)
as Workman's Wife (uncredited)
The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1935)
as Sarah
A Dog of Flanders (1935)
as Frau Keller
When Strangers Meet (1934)
as Lucy Tarman
The Defense Rests (1934)
as Mrs. Evans
Tomorrow's Children (1934)
He Was Her Man (1934)
as Mrs. Gardella
David Harum (1934)
as Widow
As the Earth Turns (1934)
as Mrs. Janowski
Man of Two Worlds (1934)
as Olago
The Sin of Nora Moran (1933)
as Mrs. Watts
The Power and the Glory (1933)
as Henry's Wife
Ann Vickers (1933)
as Lil
Doctor Bull (1933)
as Mary the Canning Cook
The Important Witness (1933)
as Deaf Woman
Pilgrimage (1933)
Face in the Sky (1933)
as Ma Brown
Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
as Duna the Landlady (uncredited)
Tess of the Storm Country (1932)
as Old Martha
Women Won't Tell (1932)
as Aggie Specks
Wild Girl (1932)
as Lize
Kongo (1932)
as Nun (uncredited)
Grand Hotel (1932)
as Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)
Blondie of the Follies (1932)
as Ma McClune
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932)
as Mrs Cobb
Red-Headed Woman (1932)
as Mary, Legendre Maid (uncredited)
The Midnight Lady (1932)
as Nita St. George
Young America (1932)
as Mrs. Mary Taylor
Cross-Examination (1932)
as Mary Stevens
Mata Hari (1931)
as Sister Teresa (uncredited)
The Yellow Ticket (1931)
as Mother Kalish
Sob Sister (1931)
as Ma Stevens
Bad Girl (1931)
as Mrs. Gardner
The Great Meadow (1931)
as Mistress Molly Hall
Today (1930)
as Emma Warner
Billy the Kid (1930)
as Homesteader Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
Hide-Out (1930)
as Mrs. Dorgan
Trifles (1930)
as Mrs. Wright
The Sophomore (1929)
as Mrs. Collins
Wonder of Women (1929)
as Anna
Companionate Marriage (1928)
as Mrs. Williams
The Bugle Call (1927)
as Luke's Wife
The Woman Who Did Not Care (1927)
as Mrs. Carroll
Obey the Law (1926)
as The Mother

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