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