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