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