Sarah Padden
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 15, 1881
- Died
- December 4, 1967 (aged 86)
- Birthplace
- 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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Filmography
Screaming Mimi
Movie · as Landlady
Girl with an Itch
Movie · as Cookie
The Kettles in the Ozarks
Movie · as Mrs. Tinware
Prince of Players
Movie · as Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited)
Public Defender
TV · as Eula Mae Carter · 1 ep
The Life Of Riley
TV · as Martha Riley · 3 eps
Letter to Loretta
TV · as Frau Lang · 1 ep
Big Jim McLain
Movie · as Mrs. Lexiter
Adventures of Superman
TV · as Mrs. Carmody · 1 ep
The Abbott and Costello Show
TV · as Old Lady on Street · 1 ep
Utah Wagon Train
Movie · as Sarah Wendover
Dragnet
TV · 1 ep
House by the River
Movie · as Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook
Gunslingers
Movie · as Rawhide Rosie Rawlins
The Missourians
Movie · as Mother Kovacs
Again Pioneers
Movie · as Ma Ashby
A Life of Her Own
Movie · as Betsy Ross Hotel Overseer (uncredited)
The Cisco Kid
TV · as Mrs. Smiley, Sara · 1 ep
Range Justice
Movie · as Ma Curtis
Homicide
Movie · as Mrs. Webb
The Lone Ranger
TV · as Grandma Williams · 1 ep
The Return of the Whistler
Movie · as Mrs. Hulskamp
The Dude Goes West
Movie · as Mrs. Hallihan
Frontier Revenge
Movie · as Widow Owens
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Movie · as Mom Palooka
Love and Learn
Movie · as Mrs. Grant (uncredited)
Ramrod
Movie · as Mrs. Parks
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
Movie · as Mom Palooka
Possessed
Movie · as Mrs. Norris, the Caretaker’s Wife (uncredited)
Trail Street
Movie · as Mrs. Ferguson (uncredited)
So Goes My Love
Movie · as Bridget
That Brennan Girl
Movie · as Mrs. Graves, the Nice Landlady
Idea Girl
Movie · as Old Lady
Wild West
Movie · as Carrie Bannister
My Dog Shep
Movie · as Carrie Hodgkins
Joe Palooka, Champ
Movie · as Mom Palooka
Angel on My Shoulder
Movie · as Agatha (uncredited)
Gentleman Joe Palooka
Movie · as Mom Palooka
Apology for Murder
Movie · as Maggie
Riders of the Dawn
Movie · as Melinda Pringle
The Master Key
Movie · as Aggie
Wildfire
Movie · as Aunt Agatha
Dakota
Movie · as Mrs. Plummer
Marshal of Laredo
Movie · as Mrs. Randall
Song of Old Wyoming
Movie · as Ma Conway
Identity Unknown
Movie · as Mrs. Anderson
The Navy Way
Movie · as Mrs. Margaret Gimble (uncredited)
Girl Rush
Movie · as Mrs. Emma Mason
Casanova Brown
Movie · as Mrs. Smith
Summer Storm
Movie · as Beggar Woman (uncredited)
San Diego I Love You
Movie · as Mrs. Gulliver (uncredited)
Ghost Guns
Movie · as Aunt Sally
Range Law
Movie · as Boots Annie
Trail to Gunsight
Movie · as Grandma Wagner
This Is the Life
Movie · as Sarah (uncredited)
Hangmen Also Die!
Movie · as Mrs. Georgia Dvorak
Family Troubles
Movie · as Mrs. Jones
Assignment in Brittany
Movie · as Albertine
So This Is Washington
Movie · as Aunt Charity Speers
The Mad Monster
Movie · as Grandmother
Heart of the Rio Grande
Movie · as 'Skipper' Forbes
Riders of the West
Movie · as Ma Turner
The Pride of the Yankees
Movie · as Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
Private Snuffy Smith
Movie · as Lowizie Smith
This Gun for Hire
Movie · as Mrs. Mason (uncredited)
Law and Order
Movie · as Mary Todd
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Movie · as Mrs. Kimball
The Corsican Brothers
Movie · as Nurse
The Power of God
Movie · as Esther Worne
Lady in a Jam
Movie · as Miner’s Wife (uncredited)
A Woman's Face
Movie · as Police Matron
City of Missing Girls
Movie · as Mrs. Randolph
Reg'lar Fellers
Movie · as Hetty Carter
Murder by Invitation
Movie · as Cassandra Hildegard Denham
In Old Colorado
Movie · as Ma Harriet Woods
The Man Who Lost Himself
Movie · as Maid
Chad Hanna
Movie · as Mrs. Todd
Lone Star Raiders
Movie · as Lydia 'Granny' Phelps
Son of the Navy
Movie · as Mrs. Baker - Landlady
Forgotten Girls
Movie · as Miss Donaldson
The Zero Hour
Movie · as Sister Theodosia
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Movie · as Woman Wanting Needle Threaded (uncredited)
Let Freedom Ring
Movie · as 'Ma' Logan
Should a Girl Marry?
Movie · as Mrs. Wilson
I Stole a Million
Movie · as Lady in Post Office (uncredited)
Off the Record
Movie · as Mrs. Fallon (uncredited)
Women in Prison
Movie · as Martha Wilson
Rich Man, Poor Girl
Movie · as Ma
Romance of the Limberlost
Movie · as Sarah
Woman Against Woman
Movie · as Dora
Little Tough Guys in Society
Movie · as Victim
Little Orphan Annie
Movie · as Mrs. Nora Moriarty
Youth on Parole
Movie · as Mrs. Blair
Exiled to Shanghai
Movie · as Aunt Jane
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
Movie · as Sarah
A Dog of Flanders
Movie · as Frau Keller
Anna Karenina
Movie · as Governess
Stranded
Movie · as Workman's Wife (uncredited)
Mad Love
Movie · as Crippled Girl's Mother (Uncredited)
He Was Her Man
Movie · as Mrs. Gardella
David Harum
Movie · as Widow
The Defense Rests
Movie · as Mrs. Evans
As the Earth Turns
Movie · as Mrs. Janowski
Man of Two Worlds
Movie · as Olago
Tomorrow's Children
Movie
When Strangers Meet
Movie · as Lucy Tarman
The Sin of Nora Moran
Movie · as Mrs. Watts
Ann Vickers
Movie · as Lil
The Power and the Glory
Movie · as Henry's Wife
Face in the Sky
Movie · as Ma Brown
The Important Witness
Movie · as Deaf Woman
Pilgrimage
Movie
Doctor Bull
Movie · as Mary the Canning Cook
Blondie of the Follies
Movie · as Ma McClune
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Movie · as Mrs Cobb
Cross-Examination
Movie · as Mary Stevens
Wild Girl
Movie · as Lize
The Midnight Lady
Movie · as Nita St. George
Women Won't Tell
Movie · as Aggie Specks
Tess of the Storm Country
Movie · as Old Martha
Young America
Movie · as Mrs. Mary Taylor
Kongo
Movie · as Nun (uncredited)
Red-Headed Woman
Movie · as Mary, Legendre Maid (uncredited)
Grand Hotel
Movie · as Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)
Rasputin and the Empress
Movie · as Duna the Landlady (uncredited)
The Great Meadow
Movie · as Mistress Molly Hall
The Yellow Ticket
Movie · as Mother Kalish
Bad Girl
Movie · as Mrs. Gardner
Mata Hari
Movie · as Sister Teresa (uncredited)
Sob Sister
Movie · as Ma Stevens
Hide-Out
Movie · as Mrs. Dorgan
Billy the Kid
Movie · as Homesteader Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
Today
Movie · as Emma Warner
Trifles
Movie · as Mrs. Wright
The Sophomore
Movie · as Mrs. Collins
Wonder of Women
Movie · as Anna
Companionate Marriage
Movie · as Mrs. Williams
The Woman Who Did Not Care
Movie · as Mrs. Carroll
The Bugle Call
Movie · as Luke's Wife
Obey the Law
Movie · as The Mother