Sarah Padden
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.
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Movies (132)
Girl with an Itch
1958 · Cookie
Screaming Mimi
1958 · Landlady
The Kettles in the Ozarks
1956 · Mrs. Tinware
Prince of Players
1955 · Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited)
Big Jim McLain
1952 · Mrs. Lexiter
Utah Wagon Train
1951 · Sarah Wendover
The Missourians
1950 · Mother Kovacs
Again Pioneers
1950 · Ma Ashby
A Life of Her Own
1950 · Betsy Ross Hotel Overseer (uncredited)
Gunslingers
1950 · Rawhide Rosie Rawlins
House by the River
1950 · Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook
Range Justice
1949 · Ma Curtis
Homicide
1949 · Mrs. Webb
Frontier Revenge
1948 · Widow Owens
The Dude Goes West
1948 · Mrs. Hallihan
The Return of the Whistler
1948 · Mrs. Hulskamp
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
1948 · Mom Palooka
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
1947 · Mom Palooka
Possessed
1947 · Mrs. Norris, the Caretaker’s Wife (uncredited)
Love and Learn
1947 · Mrs. Grant (uncredited)
Ramrod
1947 · Mrs. Parks
Trail Street
1947 · Mrs. Ferguson (uncredited)
That Brennan Girl
1946 · Mrs. Graves, the Nice Landlady
Wild West
1946 · Carrie Bannister
My Dog Shep
1946 · Carrie Hodgkins
Gentleman Joe Palooka
1946 · Mom Palooka
Angel on My Shoulder
1946 · Agatha (uncredited)
Joe Palooka, Champ
1946 · Mom Palooka
So Goes My Love
1946 · Bridget
Idea Girl
1946 · Old Lady
Dakota
1945 · Mrs. Plummer
Riders of the Dawn
1945 · Melinda Pringle
Song of Old Wyoming
1945 · Ma Conway
Marshal of Laredo
1945 · Mrs. Randall
Apology for Murder
1945 · Maggie
Wildfire
1945 · Aunt Agatha
The Master Key
1945 · Aggie
Identity Unknown
1945 · Mrs. Anderson
Ghost Guns
1944 · Aunt Sally
Girl Rush
1944 · Mrs. Emma Mason
San Diego I Love You
1944 · Mrs. Gulliver (uncredited)
Casanova Brown
1944 · Mrs. Smith
Trail to Gunsight
1944 · Grandma Wagner
Summer Storm
1944 · Beggar Woman (uncredited)
Range Law
1944 · Boots Annie
This Is the Life
1944 · Sarah (uncredited)
The Navy Way
1944 · Mrs. Margaret Gimble (uncredited), Mrs. Margaret Gimble
So This Is Washington
1943 · Aunt Charity Speers
Family Troubles
1943 · Mrs. Jones
Hangmen Also Die!
1943 · Mrs. Georgia Dvorak
Assignment in Brittany
1943 · Albertine
Riders of the West
1942 · Ma Turner
Law and Order
1942 · Mary Todd
The Pride of the Yankees
1942 · Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
Lady in a Jam
1942 · Miner’s Wife (uncredited)
The Mad Monster
1942 · Grandmother
This Gun for Hire
1942 · Mrs. Mason (uncredited)
Heart of the Rio Grande
1942 · 'Skipper' Forbes
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942 · Mrs. Kimball
Private Snuffy Smith
1942 · Lowizie Smith
The Corsican Brothers
1942 · Nurse
The Power of God
1942 · Esther Worne
Reg'lar Fellers
1941 · Hetty Carter
Murder by Invitation
1941 · Cassandra Hildegard Denham
A Woman's Face
1941 · Police Matron
City of Missing Girls
1941 · Mrs. Randolph
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941 · Maid
In Old Colorado
1941 · Ma Harriet Woods
Chad Hanna
1940 · Mrs. Todd
Lone Star Raiders
1940 · Lydia 'Granny' Phelps
Son of the Navy
1940 · Mrs. Baker - Landlady
Forgotten Girls
1940 · Miss Donaldson
I Stole a Million
1939 · Lady in Post Office (uncredited)
Should a Girl Marry?
1939 · Mrs. Wilson
The Zero Hour
1939 · Sister Theodosia
Let Freedom Ring
1939 · 'Ma' Logan
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939 · Woman Wanting Needle Threaded (uncredited)
Off the Record
1939 · Mrs. Fallon (uncredited)
Little Orphan Annie
1938 · Mrs. Nora Moriarty
Little Tough Guys in Society
1938 · Victim
Rich Man, Poor Girl
1938 · Ma
Woman Against Woman
1938 · Dora
Romance of the Limberlost
1938 · Sarah
Women in Prison
1938 · Martha Wilson
Exiled to Shanghai
1937 · Aunt Jane
Youth on Parole
1937 · Mrs. Blair
Anna Karenina
1935 · Governess
Mad Love
1935 · Crippled Girl's Mother (Uncredited)
Stranded
1935 · Workman's Wife (uncredited)
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
1935 · Sarah
A Dog of Flanders
1935 · Frau Keller
When Strangers Meet
1934 · Lucy Tarman
The Defense Rests
1934 · Mrs. Evans
Tomorrow's Children
1934
He Was Her Man
1934 · Mrs. Gardella
David Harum
1934 · Widow
As the Earth Turns
1934 · Mrs. Janowski
Man of Two Worlds
1934 · Olago
The Sin of Nora Moran
1933 · Mrs. Watts
The Power and the Glory
1933 · Henry's Wife
Ann Vickers
1933 · Lil
Doctor Bull
1933 · Mary the Canning Cook
The Important Witness
1933 · Deaf Woman
Pilgrimage
1933
Face in the Sky
1933 · Ma Brown
Rasputin and the Empress
1932 · Duna the Landlady (uncredited)
Tess of the Storm Country
1932 · Old Martha
Women Won't Tell
1932 · Aggie Specks
Wild Girl
1932 · Lize
Kongo
1932 · Nun (uncredited)
Grand Hotel
1932 · Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)
Blondie of the Follies
1932 · Ma McClune
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1932 · Mrs Cobb
Red-Headed Woman
1932 · Mary, Legendre Maid (uncredited)
The Midnight Lady
1932 · Nita St. George
Young America
1932 · Mrs. Mary Taylor
Cross-Examination
1932 · Mary Stevens
Mata Hari
1931 · Sister Teresa (uncredited)
The Yellow Ticket
1931 · Mother Kalish
Sob Sister
1931 · Ma Stevens
Bad Girl
1931 · Mrs. Gardner
The Great Meadow
1931 · Mistress Molly Hall
Today
1930 · Emma Warner
Billy the Kid
1930 · Homesteader Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
Hide-Out
1930 · Mrs. Dorgan
Trifles
1930 · Mrs. Wright
The Sophomore
1929 · Mrs. Collins
Wonder of Women
1929 · Anna
Companionate Marriage
1928 · Mrs. Williams
The Bugle Call
1927 · Luke's Wife
The Woman Who Did Not Care
1927 · Mrs. Carroll
Obey the Law
1926 · The Mother
