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