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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
October 15, 1881
Place of Birth:
Sunderland, England, UK
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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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Screaming Mimi | Landlady |
| 1958 | Girl with an Itch | Cookie |
| 1956 | The Kettles in the Ozarks | Mrs. Tinware |
| 1955 | Prince of Players | Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited) |
| 1952 | Big Jim McLain | Mrs. Lexiter |
| 1951 | Utah Wagon Train | Sarah Wendover |
| 1950 | House by the River | Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook |
| 1950 | Gunslingers | Rawhide Rosie Rawlins |
| 1950 | The Missourians | Mother Kovacs |
| 1950 | Again Pioneers | Ma Ashby |
| 1950 | A Life of Her Own | Betsy Ross Hotel Overseer (uncredited) |
| 1949 | Range Justice | Ma Curtis |
| 1949 | Homicide | Mrs. Webb |
| 1948 | The Return of the Whistler | Mrs. Hulskamp |
| 1948 | The Dude Goes West | Mrs. Hallihan |
| 1948 | Frontier Revenge | Widow Owens |
| 1948 | Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad | Mom Palooka |
| 1947 | Love and Learn | Mrs. Grant (uncredited) |
| 1947 | Ramrod | Mrs. Parks |
| 1947 | Joe Palooka in the Knockout | Mom Palooka |
| 1946 | So Goes My Love | Bridget |
| 1946 | That Brennan Girl | Mrs. Graves, the Nice Landlady |
| 1946 | Idea Girl | Old Lady |
| 1946 | Wild West | Carrie Bannister |
| 1946 | My Dog Shep | Carrie Hodgkins |
| 1946 | Joe Palooka, Champ | Mom Palooka |
| 1946 | Angel on My Shoulder | Agatha (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Gentleman Joe Palooka | Mom Palooka |
| 1945 | Apology for Murder | Maggie |
| 1945 | Riders of the Dawn | Melinda Pringle |
| 1945 | The Master Key | Aggie |
| 1945 | Wildfire | Aunt Agatha |
| 1945 | Dakota | Mrs. Plummer |
| 1945 | Marshal of Laredo | Mrs. Randall |
| 1945 | Song of Old Wyoming | Ma Conway |
| 1945 | Identity Unknown | Mrs. Anderson |
| 1944 | The Navy Way | Mrs. Margaret Gimble (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Girl Rush | Mrs. Emma Mason |
| 1944 | Casanova Brown | Mrs. Smith |
| 1944 | Summer Storm | Beggar Woman (uncredited) |
| 1944 | San Diego I Love You | Mrs. Gulliver (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Ghost Guns | Aunt Sally |
| 1944 | Range Law | Boots Annie |
| 1944 | Trail to Gunsight | Grandma Wagner |
| 1944 | The Navy Way | Mrs. Margaret Gimble |
| 1943 | Hangmen Also Die! | Mrs. Georgia Dvorak |
| 1943 | Family Troubles | Mrs. Jones |
| 1943 | Assignment in Brittany | Albertine |
| 1943 | So This Is Washington | Aunt Charity Speers |
| 1942 | The Mad Monster | Grandmother |
| 1942 | Heart of the Rio Grande | 'Skipper' Forbes |
| 1942 | Riders of the West | Ma Turner |
| 1942 | The Pride of the Yankees | Mrs. Roberts (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Private Snuffy Smith | Lowizie Smith |
| 1942 | This Gun for Hire | Mrs. Mason (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Law and Order | Mary Todd |
| 1942 | Wild Bill Hickok Rides | Mrs. Kimball |
| 1942 | The Power of God | Esther Worne |
| 1942 | Lady in a Jam | Miner’s Wife (uncredited) |
| 1941 | A Woman's Face | Police Matron |
| 1941 | City of Missing Girls | Mrs. Randolph |
| 1941 | Reg'lar Fellers | Hetty Carter |
| 1941 | Murder by Invitation | Cassandra Hildegard Denham |
| 1941 | In Old Colorado | Ma Harriet Woods |
| 1941 | The Man Who Lost Himself | Maid |
| 1941 | The Corsican Brothers | Nurse |
| 1940 | Chad Hanna | Mrs. Todd |
| 1940 | Lone Star Raiders | Lydia 'Granny' Phelps |
| 1940 | Son of the Navy | Mrs. Baker - Landlady |
| 1940 | Forgotten Girls | Miss Donaldson |
| 1939 | The Zero Hour | Sister Theodosia |
| 1939 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Woman Wanting Needle Threaded (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Let Freedom Ring | 'Ma' Logan |
| 1939 | Should a Girl Marry? | Mrs. Wilson |
| 1939 | I Stole a Million | Lady in Post Office (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Off the Record | Mrs. Fallon (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Women in Prison | Martha Wilson |
| 1938 | Rich Man, Poor Girl | Ma |
| 1938 | Romance of the Limberlost | Sarah |
| 1938 | Woman Against Woman | Dora |
| 1938 | Little Tough Guys in Society | Victim |
| 1938 | Little Orphan Annie | Mrs. Nora Moriarty |
| 1937 | Youth on Parole | Mrs. Blair |
| 1937 | Exiled to Shanghai | Aunt Jane |
| 1935 | The Hoosier Schoolmaster | Sarah |
| 1935 | A Dog of Flanders | Frau Keller |
| 1935 | Anna Karenina | Governess |
| 1935 | Stranded | Workman's Wife (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Mad Love | Crippled Girl's Mother (Uncredited) |
| 1934 | He Was Her Man | Mrs. Gardella |
| 1934 | David Harum | Widow |
| 1934 | The Defense Rests | Mrs. Evans |
| 1934 | As the Earth Turns | Mrs. Janowski |
| 1934 | Man of Two Worlds | Olago |
| 1933 | The Sin of Nora Moran | Mrs. Watts |
| 1933 | Ann Vickers | Lil |
| 1933 | The Power and the Glory | Henry's Wife |
| 1933 | Face in the Sky | Ma Brown |
| 1933 | The Important Witness | Deaf Woman |
| 1933 | Pilgrimage | |
| 1933 | Doctor Bull | Mary the Canning Cook |
| 1932 | Blondie of the Follies | Ma McClune |
| 1932 | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Mrs Cobb |
| 1932 | Cross-Examination | Mary Stevens |
| 1932 | Wild Girl | Lize |
| 1932 | The Midnight Lady | Nita St. George |
| 1932 | Women Won't Tell | Aggie Specks |
| 1932 | Tess of the Storm Country | Old Martha |
| 1932 | Young America | Mrs. Mary Taylor |
| 1932 | Kongo | Nun (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Red-Headed Woman | Mary, Legendre Maid (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Grand Hotel | Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Rasputin and the Empress | Duna the Landlady (uncredited) |
| 1931 | The Great Meadow | Mistress Molly Hall |
| 1931 | The Yellow Ticket | Mother Kalish |
| 1931 | Bad Girl | Mrs. Gardner |
| 1931 | Mata Hari | Sister Teresa (uncredited) |
| 1931 | Sob Sister | Ma Stevens |
| 1930 | Hide-Out | Mrs. Dorgan |
| 1930 | Billy the Kid | Homesteader Mrs. Foster (uncredited) |
| 1930 | Today | Emma Warner |
| 1930 | Trifles | Mrs. Wright |
| 1929 | The Sophomore | Mrs. Collins |
| 1929 | Wonder of Women | Anna |
| 1928 | Companionate Marriage | Mrs. Williams |
| 1927 | The Woman Who Did Not Care | Mrs. Carroll |
| 1927 | The Bugle Call | Luke's Wife |
| 1926 | Obey the Law | The Mother |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Public Defender | Eula Mae Carter |
| 1953 | The Life Of Riley | Martha Riley |
| 1953 | The Life Of Riley | Ma Riley |
| 1953 | Letter to Loretta | Frau Lang |
| 1952 | Adventures of Superman | Mrs. Carmody |
| 1952 | The Abbott and Costello Show | Old Lady on Street |
| 1951 | Dragnet | |
| 1950 | The Cisco Kid | Mrs. Smiley |
| 1950 | The Cisco Kid | Sara |
| 1949 | The Lone Ranger | Grandma Williams |