Sarah Padden
Acting
Born October 15, 1881 ยท 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.
Films (131)
Girl with an Itch
1958
Screaming Mimi
1958
The Kettles in the Ozarks
1956
Prince of Players
1955
Big Jim McLain
1952
Utah Wagon Train
1951
The Missourians
1950
Again Pioneers
1950
A Life of Her Own
1950
Gunslingers
1950
House by the River
1950
Range Justice
1949
Homicide
1949
Frontier Revenge
1948
The Dude Goes West
1948
The Return of the Whistler
1948
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
1948
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
1947
Possessed
1947
Love and Learn
1947
Ramrod
1947
Trail Street
1947
That Brennan Girl
1946
Wild West
1946
My Dog Shep
1946
Gentleman Joe Palooka
1946
Angel on My Shoulder
1946
Joe Palooka, Champ
1946
So Goes My Love
1946
Idea Girl
1946
Dakota
1945
Riders of the Dawn
1945
Song of Old Wyoming
1945
Marshal of Laredo
1945
Apology for Murder
1945
Wildfire
1945
The Master Key
1945
Identity Unknown
1945
Ghost Guns
1944
Girl Rush
1944
San Diego I Love You
1944
Casanova Brown
1944
Trail to Gunsight
1944
Summer Storm
1944
Range Law
1944
The Navy Way
1944
So This Is Washington
1943
Family Troubles
1943
Hangmen Also Die!
1943
Assignment in Brittany
1943
Riders of the West
1942
Law and Order
1942
The Pride of the Yankees
1942
Lady in a Jam
1942
The Mad Monster
1942
This Gun for Hire
1942
Heart of the Rio Grande
1942
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942
Private Snuffy Smith
1942
The Power of God
1942
The Corsican Brothers
1941
Reg'lar Fellers
1941
Murder by Invitation
1941
A Woman's Face
1941
City of Missing Girls
1941
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941
In Old Colorado
1941
Chad Hanna
1940
Lone Star Raiders
1940
Son of the Navy
1940
Forgotten Girls
1940
I Stole a Million
1939
Should a Girl Marry?
1939
The Zero Hour
1939
Let Freedom Ring
1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939
Off the Record
1939
Little Orphan Annie
1938
Little Tough Guys in Society
1938
Rich Man, Poor Girl
1938
Woman Against Woman
1938
Romance of the Limberlost
1938
Women in Prison
1938
Exiled to Shanghai
1937
Youth on Parole
1937
Anna Karenina
1935
Mad Love
1935
Stranded
1935
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
1935
A Dog of Flanders
1935
When Strangers Meet
1934
The Defense Rests
1934
Tomorrow's Children
1934
He Was Her Man
1934
David Harum
1934
As the Earth Turns
1934
Man of Two Worlds
1934
The Sin of Nora Moran
1933
The Power and the Glory
1933
Ann Vickers
1933
Doctor Bull
1933
The Important Witness
1933
Pilgrimage
1933
Face in the Sky
1933
Rasputin and the Empress
1932
Tess of the Storm Country
1932
Women Won't Tell
1932
Wild Girl
1932
Kongo
1932
Grand Hotel
1932
Blondie of the Follies
1932
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1932
Red-Headed Woman
1932
The Midnight Lady
1932
Young America
1932
Cross-Examination
1932
Mata Hari
1931
The Yellow Ticket
1931
Sob Sister
1931
Bad Girl
1931
The Great Meadow
1931
Today
1930
Billy the Kid
1930
Hide-Out
1930
Trifles
1930
The Sophomore
1929
Wonder of Women
1929
Companionate Marriage
1928
The Bugle Call
1927
The Woman Who Did Not Care
1927
Obey the Law
1926