Cast
Sarah Padden
Acting
Cast
Sarah Padden
Known for
Acting
Born
1881-10-15
From
Sunderland, England, UK
Died
1967-12-04
Also known as Sarah Ann Padden, Sara 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.
★6.0
MOVIE1931
Bad Girl
as Mrs. Gardner
★7.0
MOVIE1931
Sob Sister
as Ma Stevens
★6.2
MOVIE1931
Mata Hari
as Sister Teresa (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1932
Grand Hotel
as Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1935
Anna Karenina
as Governess
★6.8
MOVIE1941
A Woman's Face
as Police Matron
★6.2
MOVIE1932
Wild Girl
as Lize
★7.4
MOVIE1942
The Pride of the Yankees
as Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE1944
Casanova Brown
as Mrs. Smith
★5.6
MOVIE1940
Forgotten Girls
as Miss Donaldson
★7.0
MOVIE1942
This Gun for Hire
as Mrs. Mason (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1943
Hangmen Also Die!
as Mrs. Georgia Dvorak
★6.3
MOVIE1932
Blondie of the Follies
as Ma McClune
★3.4
MOVIE1942
The Mad Monster
as Grandmother
★5.2
MOVIE1945
Dakota
as Mrs. Plummer
★6.7
MOVIE1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Woman Wanting Needle Threaded (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1950
House by the River
as Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook
★8.0
MOVIE1938
Women in Prison
as Martha Wilson
★5.0
MOVIE1952
Big Jim McLain
as Mrs. Lexiter
★5.5
MOVIE1942
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
as Mrs. Kimball
★7.0
MOVIE1941
The Corsican Brothers
as Nurse
★6.5
MOVIE1946
Angel on My Shoulder
as Agatha (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1947
Ramrod
as Mrs. Parks
★5.5
MOVIE1932
Rasputin and the Empress
as Duna the Landlady (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1942
Law and Order
as Mary Todd
★6.6
MOVIE1932
Red-Headed Woman
as Mary, Legendre Maid (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1947
Possessed
as Mrs. Norris, the Caretaker’s Wife (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1947
Trail Street
as Mrs. Ferguson (uncredited)
★5.9
MOVIE1948
The Dude Goes West
as Mrs. Hallihan
★5.7
MOVIE1949
Homicide
as Mrs. Webb
★9.0
MOVIE1944
Range Law
as Boots Annie
★5.0
MOVIE1934
Tomorrow's Children
★7.1
MOVIE1933
Pilgrimage
★5.0
MOVIE1958
Screaming Mimi
as Landlady
★5.5
MOVIE1932
Young America
as Mrs. Mary Taylor
★5.1
MOVIE1931
The Yellow Ticket
as Mother Kalish
★10.0
MOVIE1934
When Strangers Meet
as Lucy Tarman
★7.1
MOVIE1956
The Kettles in the Ozarks
as Mrs. Tinware
★5.7
MOVIE1944
Summer Storm
as Beggar Woman (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1955
Prince of Players
as Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1932
The Midnight Lady
as Nita St. George
★6.7
MOVIE1933
Doctor Bull
as Mary the Canning Cook
★4.7
MOVIE1941
City of Missing Girls
as Mrs. Randolph
★7.3
MOVIE1940
Chad Hanna
as Mrs. Todd
★5.5
MOVIE1937
Exiled to Shanghai
as Aunt Jane
★7.3
MOVIE1946
So Goes My Love
as Bridget
★8.0
MOVIE1939
I Stole a Million
as Lady in Post Office (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1946
My Dog Shep
as Carrie Hodgkins
★5.3
MOVIE1950
A Life of Her Own
as Betsy Ross Hotel Overseer (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1944
The Navy Way
as Mrs. Margaret Gimble (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1944
The Navy Way
as Mrs. Margaret Gimble
★7.0
MOVIE1935
Mad Love
as Crippled Girl's Mother (Uncredited)
★7.1
MOVIE1934
The Defense Rests
as Mrs. Evans
★5.4
MOVIE1945
Identity Unknown
as Mrs. Anderson
★6.0
MOVIE1944
This Is the Life
as Sarah (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1947
Love and Learn
as Mrs. Grant (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1932
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
as Mrs Cobb
★6.4
MOVIE1939
Off the Record
as Mrs. Fallon (uncredited)
★4.7
MOVIE1930
Billy the Kid
as Homesteader Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1946
That Brennan Girl
as Mrs. Graves, the Nice Landlady
★5.9
MOVIE1933
The Power and the Glory
as Henry's Wife
★6.5
MOVIE1942
Riders of the West
as Ma Turner
★6.4
MOVIE1941
In Old Colorado
as Ma Harriet Woods
★5.8
MOVIE1933
Ann Vickers
as Lil
★7.5
MOVIE1935
A Dog of Flanders
as Frau Keller
★6.0
MOVIE1948
The Return of the Whistler
as Mrs. Hulskamp
★6.5
MOVIE1934
Man of Two Worlds
as Olago
★6.8
MOVIE1944
San Diego I Love You
as Mrs. Gulliver (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1934
David Harum
as Widow
★6.7
MOVIE1951
Utah Wagon Train
as Sarah Wendover
★5.8
MOVIE1933
Face in the Sky
as Ma Brown
★8.0
MOVIE1945
The Master Key
as Aggie
★5.5
MOVIE1933
The Sin of Nora Moran
as Mrs. Watts
★4.3
MOVIE1942
Private Snuffy Smith
as Lowizie Smith
★5.6
MOVIE1934
As the Earth Turns
as Mrs. Janowski
★5.6
MOVIE1942
Lady in a Jam
as Miner’s Wife (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1945
Marshal of Laredo
as Mrs. Randall
★6.1
MOVIE1944
Ghost Guns
as Aunt Sally
★6.8
MOVIE1939
Let Freedom Ring
as 'Ma' Logan
★6.4
MOVIE1932
Kongo
as Nun (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1938
Woman Against Woman
as Dora
★6.2
MOVIE1940
Son of the Navy
as Mrs. Baker - Landlady
★7.1
MOVIE1943
Assignment in Brittany
as Albertine
★6.1
MOVIE1938
Rich Man, Poor Girl
as Ma
★8.0
MOVIE1946
Joe Palooka, Champ
as Mom Palooka
★6.0
MOVIE1931
The Great Meadow
as Mistress Molly Hall
★6.5
MOVIE1934
He Was Her Man
as Mrs. Gardella
★5.7
MOVIE1939
Should a Girl Marry?
as Mrs. Wilson
★6.0
MOVIE1935
Stranded
as Workman's Wife (uncredited)
★3.9
MOVIE1937
Youth on Parole
as Mrs. Blair
★5.7
MOVIE1950
Again Pioneers
as Ma Ashby
★4.9
MOVIE1945
Apology for Murder
as Maggie
★4.0
MOVIE1929
Wonder of Women
as Anna
★4.0
MOVIE1945
Wildfire
as Aunt Agatha
★9.0
MOVIE1942
Heart of the Rio Grande
as 'Skipper' Forbes
★5.3
MOVIE1943
So This Is Washington
as Aunt Charity Speers
MOVIE1946
Gentleman Joe Palooka
as Mom Palooka
★8.0
MOVIE1950
The Missourians
as Mother Kovacs
★3.3
MOVIE1928
Companionate Marriage
as Mrs. Williams
★5.3
MOVIE1929
The Sophomore
as Mrs. Collins
★7.5
MOVIE1933
The Important Witness
as Deaf Woman
★7.0
MOVIE1949
Range Justice
as Ma Curtis
★10.0
MOVIE1927
The Bugle Call
as Luke's Wife
★5.4
MOVIE1941
The Man Who Lost Himself
as Maid
★7.3
MOVIE1938
Little Tough Guys in Society
as Victim
★8.0
MOVIE1948
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
as Mom Palooka
★6.0
MOVIE1944
Girl Rush
as Mrs. Emma Mason
★6.7
MOVIE1948
Frontier Revenge
as Widow Owens
★5.7
MOVIE1945
Song of Old Wyoming
as Ma Conway
★7.0
MOVIE1932
Tess of the Storm Country
as Old Martha
★7.0
MOVIE1932
Women Won't Tell
as Aggie Specks
★8.0
MOVIE1938
Little Orphan Annie
as Mrs. Nora Moriarty
★9.0
MOVIE1946
Wild West
as Carrie Bannister
★6.0
MOVIE1941
Murder by Invitation
as Cassandra Hildegard Denham
★10.0
MOVIE1940
Lone Star Raiders
as Lydia 'Granny' Phelps
★8.0
MOVIE1947
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
as Mom Palooka
★5.1
MOVIE1932
Cross-Examination
as Mary Stevens
★6.5
MOVIE1938
Romance of the Limberlost
as Sarah
★10.0
MOVIE1945
Riders of the Dawn
as Melinda Pringle
★4.3
MOVIE1935
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
as Sarah
★3.3
MOVIE1930
Today
as Emma Warner
★5.3
MOVIE1939
The Zero Hour
as Sister Theodosia
★8.0
MOVIE1927
The Woman Who Did Not Care
as Mrs. Carroll
★5.3
MOVIE1958
Girl with an Itch
as Cookie
★10.0
MOVIE1944
Trail to Gunsight
as Grandma Wagner
★6.5
MOVIE1950
Gunslingers
as Rawhide Rosie Rawlins
MOVIE1942
The Power of God
as Esther Worne
★6.8
MOVIE1943
Family Troubles
as Mrs. Jones
★8.0
MOVIE1946
Idea Girl
as Old Lady
★4.2
MOVIE1941
Reg'lar Fellers
as Hetty Carter
★5.0
MOVIE1930
Trifles
as Mrs. Wright
★10.0
MOVIE1926
Obey the Law
as The Mother
★10.0
MOVIE1930
Hide-Out
as Mrs. Dorgan