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