Sarah Padden
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1881-10-15
Day of Death
1967-12-04 (86 years old)
Place of Birth
Sunderland, England, UK
Sarah Padden
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.
Known For
Acting
(1958)
Screaming Mimi
as Landlady
(1958)
Girl with an Itch
as Cookie
(1956)
The Kettles in the Ozarks
as Mrs. Tinware
(1955)
Prince of Players
as Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited)
(1952)
Big Jim McLain
as Mrs. Lexiter
(1951)
Utah Wagon Train
as Sarah Wendover
(1950)
House by the River
as Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook
(1950)
A Life of Her Own
as Betsy Ross Hotel Overseer (uncredited)
(1950)
Again Pioneers
as Ma Ashby
(1950)
Gunslingers
as Rawhide Rosie Rawlins
(1950)
The Missourians
as Mother Kovacs
(1949)
Range Justice
as Ma Curtis
(1949)
Homicide
as Mrs. Webb
(1948)
The Dude Goes West
as Mrs. Hallihan
(1948)
Frontier Revenge
as Widow Owens
(1948)
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
as Mom Palooka
(1948)
The Return of the Whistler
as Mrs. Hulskamp
(1947)
Ramrod
as Mrs. Parks
(1947)
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
as Mom Palooka
(1947)
Love and Learn
as Mrs. Grant (uncredited)
(1946)
Angel on My Shoulder
as Agatha (uncredited)
(1946)
That Brennan Girl
as Mrs. Graves, the Nice Landlady
(1946)
Wild West
as Carrie Bannister
(1946)
Gentleman Joe Palooka
as Mom Palooka
(1946)
My Dog Shep
as Carrie Hodgkins
(1946)
So Goes My Love
as Bridget
(1946)
Joe Palooka, Champ
as Mom Palooka
(1946)
Idea Girl
as Old Lady
(1945)
Dakota
as Mrs. Plummer
(1945)
Wildfire
as Aunt Agatha
(1945)
Identity Unknown
as Mrs. Anderson
(1945)
The Master Key
as Aggie
(1945)
Song of Old Wyoming
as Ma Conway
(1945)
Marshal of Laredo
as Mrs. Randall
(1945)
Apology for Murder
as Maggie
(1945)
Riders of the Dawn
as Melinda Pringle
(1944)
Summer Storm
as Beggar Woman (uncredited)
(1944)
The Navy Way
as Mrs. Margaret Gimble (uncredited)
(1944)
The Navy Way
as Mrs. Margaret Gimble
(1944)
Girl Rush
as Mrs. Emma Mason
(1944)
Casanova Brown
as Mrs. Smith
(1944)
Range Law
as Boots Annie
(1944)
Trail to Gunsight
as Grandma Wagner
(1944)
San Diego I Love You
as Mrs. Gulliver (uncredited)
(1944)
Ghost Guns
as Aunt Sally
(1943)
Hangmen Also Die!
as Mrs. Georgia Dvorak
(1943)
So This Is Washington
as Aunt Charity Speers
(1943)
Assignment in Brittany
as Albertine
(1943)
Family Troubles
as Mrs. Jones
(1942)
The Pride of the Yankees
as Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
(1942)
This Gun for Hire
as Mrs. Mason (uncredited)
(1942)
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
as Mrs. Kimball
(1942)
The Mad Monster
as Grandmother
(1942)
Riders of the West
as Ma Turner
(1942)
Heart of the Rio Grande
as 'Skipper' Forbes
(1942)
Lady in a Jam
as Miner’s Wife (uncredited)
(1942)
The Power of God
as Esther Worne
(1942)
Private Snuffy Smith
as Lowizie Smith
(1942)
Law and Order
as Mary Todd
(1941)
A Woman's Face
as Police Matron
(1941)
The Corsican Brothers
as Nurse
(1941)
City of Missing Girls
as Mrs. Randolph
(1941)
Murder by Invitation
as Cassandra Hildegard Denham
(1941)
The Man Who Lost Himself
as Maid
(1941)
Reg'lar Fellers
as Hetty Carter
(1941)
In Old Colorado
as Ma Harriet Woods
(1940)
Chad Hanna
as Mrs. Todd
(1940)
Lone Star Raiders
as Lydia 'Granny' Phelps
(1940)
Forgotten Girls
as Miss Donaldson
(1940)
Son of the Navy
as Mrs. Baker - Landlady
(1939)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Woman Wanting Needle Threaded (uncredited)
(1939)
The Zero Hour
as Sister Theodosia
(1939)
I Stole a Million
as Lady in Post Office (uncredited)
(1939)
Off the Record
as Mrs. Fallon (uncredited)
(1939)
Should a Girl Marry?
as Mrs. Wilson
(1939)
Let Freedom Ring
as 'Ma' Logan
(1938)
Romance of the Limberlost
as Sarah
(1938)
Woman Against Woman
as Dora
(1938)
Little Orphan Annie
as Mrs. Nora Moriarty
(1938)
Little Tough Guys in Society
as Victim
(1938)
Women in Prison
as Martha Wilson
(1938)
Rich Man, Poor Girl
as Ma
(1937)
Youth on Parole
as Mrs. Blair
(1937)
Exiled to Shanghai
as Aunt Jane
(1935)
Anna Karenina
as Governess
(1935)
Mad Love
as Crippled Girl's Mother (Uncredited)
(1935)
A Dog of Flanders
as Frau Keller
(1935)
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
as Sarah
(1935)
Stranded
as Workman's Wife (uncredited)
(1934)
As the Earth Turns
as Mrs. Janowski
(1934)
He Was Her Man
as Mrs. Gardella
(1934)
The Defense Rests
as Mrs. Evans
(1934)
Man of Two Worlds
as Olago
(1934)
David Harum
as Widow
(1933)
The Sin of Nora Moran
as Mrs. Watts
(1933)
Ann Vickers
as Lil
(1933)
Doctor Bull
as Mary the Canning Cook
(1933)
The Power and the Glory
as Henry's Wife
(1933)
(1933)
Face in the Sky
as Ma Brown
(1933)
The Important Witness
as Deaf Woman
(1932)
Grand Hotel
as Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)
(1932)
Red-Headed Woman
as Mary, Legendre Maid (uncredited)
(1932)
Rasputin and the Empress
as Duna the Landlady (uncredited)
(1932)
Tess of the Storm Country
as Old Martha
(1932)
Young America
as Mrs. Mary Taylor
(1932)
Wild Girl
as Lize
(1932)
Cross-Examination
as Mary Stevens
(1932)
Kongo
as Nun (uncredited)
(1932)
Blondie of the Follies
as Ma McClune
(1932)
The Midnight Lady
as Nita St. George
(1932)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
as Mrs Cobb
(1932)
Women Won't Tell
as Aggie Specks
(1931)
Mata Hari
as Sister Teresa (uncredited)
(1931)
Bad Girl
as Mrs. Gardner
(1931)
The Yellow Ticket
as Mother Kalish
(1931)
The Great Meadow
as Mistress Molly Hall
(1931)
Sob Sister
as Ma Stevens
(1930)
Billy the Kid
as Homesteader Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
(1930)
Today
as Emma Warner
(1930)
Hide-Out
as Mrs. Dorgan
(1930)
Trifles
as Mrs. Wright
(1929)
Wonder of Women
as Anna
(1929)
The Sophomore
as Mrs. Collins
(1928)
Companionate Marriage
as Mrs. Williams
(1927)
The Bugle Call
as Luke's Wife
(1927)
The Woman Who Did Not Care
as Mrs. Carroll
(1926)
Obey the Law
as The Mother