Sarah Padden
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 15, 1881
- Died
- December 4, 1967
- Birthplace
- Sunderland, England, UK
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.
Filmography
Girl with an Itch 1958
as Cookie
Screaming Mimi 1958
as Landlady
The Kettles in the Ozarks 1956
as Mrs. Tinware
Prince of Players 1955
as Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited)
Big Jim McLain 1952
as Mrs. Lexiter
Utah Wagon Train 1951
as Sarah Wendover
The Missourians 1950
as Mother Kovacs
Again Pioneers 1950
as Ma Ashby
A Life of Her Own 1950
as Betsy Ross Hotel Overseer (uncredited)
Gunslingers 1950
as Rawhide Rosie Rawlins
House by the River 1950
as Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook
Range Justice 1949
as Ma Curtis
Homicide 1949
as Mrs. Webb
Frontier Revenge 1948
as Widow Owens
The Dude Goes West 1948
as Mrs. Hallihan
The Return of the Whistler 1948
as Mrs. Hulskamp
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad 1948
as Mom Palooka
Joe Palooka in the Knockout 1947
as Mom Palooka
Possessed 1947
as Mrs. Norris, the Caretaker’s Wife (uncredited)
Ramrod 1947
as Mrs. Parks
Love and Learn 1947
as Mrs. Grant (uncredited)
Trail Street 1947
as Mrs. Ferguson (uncredited)
That Brennan Girl 1946
as Mrs. Graves, the Nice Landlady
Wild West 1946
as Carrie Bannister
My Dog Shep 1946
as Carrie Hodgkins
Gentleman Joe Palooka 1946
as Mom Palooka
Angel on My Shoulder 1946
as Agatha (uncredited)
Joe Palooka, Champ 1946
as Mom Palooka
So Goes My Love 1946
as Bridget
Idea Girl 1946
as Old Lady
Dakota 1945
as Mrs. Plummer
Riders of the Dawn 1945
as Melinda Pringle
Song of Old Wyoming 1945
as Ma Conway
Marshal of Laredo 1945
as Mrs. Randall
Apology for Murder 1945
as Maggie
Wildfire 1945
as Aunt Agatha
The Master Key 1945
as Aggie
Identity Unknown 1945
as Mrs. Anderson
Ghost Guns 1944
as Aunt Sally
Girl Rush 1944
as Mrs. Emma Mason
San Diego I Love You 1944
as Mrs. Gulliver (uncredited)
Casanova Brown 1944
as Mrs. Smith
Trail to Gunsight 1944
as Grandma Wagner
Summer Storm 1944
as Beggar Woman (uncredited)
Range Law 1944
as Boots Annie
This Is the Life 1944
as Sarah (uncredited)
The Navy Way 1944
as Mrs. Margaret Gimble (uncredited), as Mrs. Margaret Gimble
So This Is Washington 1943
as Aunt Charity Speers
Family Troubles 1943
as Mrs. Jones
Hangmen Also Die! 1943
as Mrs. Georgia Dvorak
Assignment in Brittany 1943
as Albertine
Law and Order 1942
as Mary Todd
Riders of the West 1942
as Ma Turner
The Pride of the Yankees 1942
as Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
Lady in a Jam 1942
as Miner’s Wife (uncredited)
The Mad Monster 1942
as Grandmother
This Gun for Hire 1942
as Mrs. Mason (uncredited)
Heart of the Rio Grande 1942
as 'Skipper' Forbes
Wild Bill Hickok Rides 1942
as Mrs. Kimball
Private Snuffy Smith 1942
as Lowizie Smith
The Power of God 1942
as Esther Worne
The Corsican Brothers 1942
as Nurse
Reg'lar Fellers 1941
as Hetty Carter
Murder by Invitation 1941
as Cassandra Hildegard Denham
A Woman's Face 1941
as Police Matron
City of Missing Girls 1941
as Mrs. Randolph
The Man Who Lost Himself 1941
as Maid
In Old Colorado 1941
as Ma Harriet Woods
Chad Hanna 1940
as Mrs. Todd
Lone Star Raiders 1940
as Lydia 'Granny' Phelps
Son of the Navy 1940
as Mrs. Baker - Landlady
Forgotten Girls 1940
as Miss Donaldson
I Stole a Million 1939
as Lady in Post Office (uncredited)
Should a Girl Marry? 1939
as Mrs. Wilson
The Zero Hour 1939
as Sister Theodosia
Let Freedom Ring 1939
as 'Ma' Logan
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1939
as Woman Wanting Needle Threaded (uncredited)
Off the Record 1939
as Mrs. Fallon (uncredited)
- Little Orphan Annie
Little Orphan Annie 1938
as Mrs. Nora Moriarty
Little Tough Guys in Society 1938
as Victim
Rich Man, Poor Girl 1938
as Ma
Woman Against Woman 1938
as Dora
Romance of the Limberlost 1938
as Sarah
Women in Prison 1938
as Martha Wilson
Exiled to Shanghai 1937
as Aunt Jane
Youth on Parole 1937
as Mrs. Blair
Anna Karenina 1935
as Governess
Mad Love 1935
as Crippled Girl's Mother (Uncredited)
Stranded 1935
as Workman's Wife (uncredited)
The Hoosier Schoolmaster 1935
as Sarah
A Dog of Flanders 1935
as Frau Keller
When Strangers Meet 1934
as Lucy Tarman
The Defense Rests 1934
as Mrs. Evans
Tomorrow's Children 1934
Actor
He Was Her Man 1934
as Mrs. Gardella
David Harum 1934
as Widow
As the Earth Turns 1934
as Mrs. Janowski
Man of Two Worlds 1934
as Olago
The Sin of Nora Moran 1933
as Mrs. Watts
The Power and the Glory 1933
as Henry's Wife
Ann Vickers 1933
as Lil
Doctor Bull 1933
as Mary the Canning Cook
The Important Witness 1933
as Deaf Woman
Pilgrimage 1933
Actor
Face in the Sky 1933
as Ma Brown
Rasputin and the Empress 1932
as Duna the Landlady (uncredited)
Tess of the Storm Country 1932
as Old Martha
Women Won't Tell 1932
as Aggie Specks
Wild Girl 1932
as Lize
Kongo 1932
as Nun (uncredited)
Grand Hotel 1932
as Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)
Blondie of the Follies 1932
as Ma McClune
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1932
as Mrs Cobb
Red-Headed Woman 1932
as Mary, Legendre Maid (uncredited)
The Midnight Lady 1932
as Nita St. George
Young America 1932
as Mrs. Mary Taylor
Cross-Examination 1932
as Mary Stevens
Mata Hari 1931
as Sister Teresa (uncredited)
The Yellow Ticket 1931
as Mother Kalish
Sob Sister 1931
as Ma Stevens
Bad Girl 1931
as Mrs. Gardner
The Great Meadow 1931
as Mistress Molly Hall
Today 1930
as Emma Warner
Billy the Kid 1930
as Homesteader Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
Hide-Out 1930
as Mrs. Dorgan
Trifles 1930
as Mrs. Wright
The Sophomore 1929
as Mrs. Collins
Wonder of Women 1929
as Anna
Companionate Marriage 1928
as Mrs. Williams
The Bugle Call 1927
as Luke's Wife
The Woman Who Did Not Care 1927
as Mrs. Carroll
Obey the Law 1926
as The Mother
Credits from TMDB.