Name
Sarah Padden
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1881-10-15
Deathday
1967-12-04 (86 years old)
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.
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- 1932 Blondie of the Follies as Ma McClune
- 1946 So Goes My Love as Bridget
- 1950 House by the River as Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook
- 1944 The Navy Way as Mrs. Margaret Gimble (uncredited)
- 1943 Hangmen Also Die! as Mrs. Georgia Dvorak
- 1958 Screaming Mimi as Landlady
- 1948 The Return of the Whistler as Mrs. Hulskamp
- 1945 Apology for Murder as Maggie
- 1941 A Woman's Face as Police Matron
- 1933 The Sin of Nora Moran as Mrs. Watts
- 1933 Ann Vickers as Lil
- 1935 The Hoosier Schoolmaster as Sarah
- 1932 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm as Mrs Cobb
- 1943 Family Troubles as Mrs. Jones
- 1927 The Woman Who Did Not Care as Mrs. Carroll
- 1933 The Power and the Glory as Henry's Wife
- 1938 Women in Prison as Martha Wilson
- 1930 Hide-Out as Mrs. Dorgan
- 1942 The Mad Monster as Grandmother
- 1942 Heart of the Rio Grande as 'Skipper' Forbes
- 1932 Cross-Examination as Mary Stevens
- 1926 Obey the Law as The Mother
- 1942 Riders of the West as Ma Turner
- 1932 Wild Girl as Lize
- 1930 Billy the Kid as Homesteader Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
- 1958 Girl with an Itch as Cookie
- 1934 He Was Her Man as Mrs. Gardella
- 1942 The Pride of the Yankees as Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
- 1932 The Midnight Lady as Nita St. George
- 1938 Rich Man, Poor Girl as Ma
- 1945 Riders of the Dawn as Melinda Pringle
- 1943 Assignment in Brittany as Albertine
- 1941 City of Missing Girls as Mrs. Randolph
- 1937 Youth on Parole as Mrs. Blair
- 1944 Girl Rush as Mrs. Emma Mason
- 1946 That Brennan Girl as Mrs. Graves, the Nice Landlady
- 1945 The Master Key as Aggie
- 1937 Exiled to Shanghai as Aunt Jane
- 1931 The Great Meadow as Mistress Molly Hall
- 1934 David Harum as Widow
- 1932 Women Won't Tell as Aggie Specks
- 1942 Private Snuffy Smith as Lowizie Smith
- 1932 Tess of the Storm Country as Old Martha
- 1933 Face in the Sky as Ma Brown
- 1934 The Defense Rests as Mrs. Evans
- 1944 Casanova Brown as Mrs. Smith
- 1933 The Important Witness as Deaf Woman
- 1938 Romance of the Limberlost as Sarah
- 1932 Young America as Mrs. Mary Taylor
- 1934 As the Earth Turns as Mrs. Janowski
- 1948 The Dude Goes West as Mrs. Hallihan
- 1940 Chad Hanna as Mrs. Todd
- 1930 Today as Emma Warner
- 1945 Wildfire as Aunt Agatha
- 1939 The Zero Hour as Sister Theodosia
- 1935 A Dog of Flanders as Frau Keller
- 1929 The Sophomore as Mrs. Collins
- 1938 Woman Against Woman as Dora
- 1943 So This Is Washington as Aunt Charity Speers
- 1939 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Woman Wanting Needle Threaded (uncredited)
- 1939 Let Freedom Ring as 'Ma' Logan
- 1944 Summer Storm as Beggar Woman (uncredited)
- 1932 Kongo as Nun (uncredited)
- 1946 Idea Girl as Old Lady
- 1931 The Yellow Ticket as Mother Kalish
- 1948 Frontier Revenge as Widow Owens
- 1939 Should a Girl Marry? as Mrs. Wilson
- 1934 Man of Two Worlds as Olago
- 1941 Reg'lar Fellers as Hetty Carter
- 1945 Dakota as Mrs. Plummer
- 1942 This Gun for Hire as Mrs. Mason (uncredited)
- 1940 Lone Star Raiders as Lydia 'Granny' Phelps
- 1941 Murder by Invitation as Cassandra Hildegard Denham
- 1942 Law and Order as Mary Todd
- 1941 In Old Colorado as Ma Harriet Woods
- 1938 Little Tough Guys in Society as Victim
- 1932 Red-Headed Woman as Mary, Legendre Maid (uncredited)
- 1940 Son of the Navy as Mrs. Baker - Landlady
- 1944 San Diego I Love You as Mrs. Gulliver (uncredited)
- 1933 Pilgrimage
- 1931 Bad Girl as Mrs. Gardner
- 1950 Gunslingers as Rawhide Rosie Rawlins
- 1950 The Missourians as Mother Kovacs
- 1951 Utah Wagon Train as Sarah Wendover
- 1945 Marshal of Laredo as Mrs. Randall
- 1933 Doctor Bull as Mary the Canning Cook
- 1930 Trifles as Mrs. Wright
- 1952 Big Jim McLain as Mrs. Lexiter
- 1944 Ghost Guns as Aunt Sally
- 1947 Love and Learn as Mrs. Grant (uncredited)
- 1944 Range Law as Boots Annie
- 1944 Trail to Gunsight as Grandma Wagner
- 1945 Song of Old Wyoming as Ma Conway
- 1946 Wild West as Carrie Bannister
- 1950 Again Pioneers as Ma Ashby
- 1947 Ramrod as Mrs. Parks
- 1949 Range Justice as Ma Curtis
- 1942 Wild Bill Hickok Rides as Mrs. Kimball
- 1955 Prince of Players as Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited)
- 1941 The Man Who Lost Himself as Maid
- 1946 My Dog Shep as Carrie Hodgkins
- 1932 Grand Hotel as Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)
- 1941 The Corsican Brothers as Nurse
- 1931 Mata Hari as Sister Teresa (uncredited)
- 1932 Rasputin and the Empress as Duna the Landlady (uncredited)
- 1938 Little Orphan Annie as Mrs. Nora Moriarty
- 1939 I Stole a Million as Lady in Post Office (uncredited)
- 1942 The Power of God as Esther Worne
- 1939 Off the Record as Mrs. Fallon (uncredited)
- 1935 Anna Karenina as Governess
- 1927 The Bugle Call as Luke's Wife
- 1935 Stranded as Workman's Wife (uncredited)
- 1929 Wonder of Women as Anna
- 1944 The Navy Way as Mrs. Margaret Gimble
- 1946 Joe Palooka, Champ as Mom Palooka
- 1948 Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad as Mom Palooka
- 1950 A Life of Her Own as Betsy Ross Hotel Overseer (uncredited)
- 1949 Homicide as Mrs. Webb
- 1946 Angel on My Shoulder as Agatha (uncredited)
- 1956 The Kettles in the Ozarks as Mrs. Tinware
- 1945 Identity Unknown as Mrs. Anderson
- 1940 Forgotten Girls as Miss Donaldson
- 1947 Joe Palooka in the Knockout as Mom Palooka
- 1946 Gentleman Joe Palooka as Mom Palooka
- 1935 Mad Love as Crippled Girl's Mother (Uncredited)
- 1931 Sob Sister as Ma Stevens
- 1942 Lady in a Jam as Miner’s Wife (uncredited)
- 1928 Companionate Marriage as Mrs. Williams
- 1947 Possessed as Mrs. Norris, the Caretaker’s Wife (uncredited)
- 1947 Trail Street as Mrs. Ferguson (uncredited)
- 1934 Tomorrow's Children
- 1934 When Strangers Meet as Lucy Tarman
- 1944 This Is the Life as Sarah (uncredited)
- 1950 The Cisco Kid ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Smiley
- 1952 Adventures of Superman ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Carmody
- 1949 The Lone Ranger ( 1 episode ) as Grandma Williams
- 1953 The Life Of Riley ( 3 episodes ) as Martha Riley
- 1954 Public Defender ( 1 episode ) as Eula Mae Carter
- 1953 Letter to Loretta ( 1 episode ) as Frau Lang
- 1950 The Cisco Kid ( 1 episode ) as Sara
- 1952 The Abbott and Costello Show ( 1 episode ) as Old Lady on Street
- 1951 Dragnet ( 1 episode )
