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