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