Sarah Padden
female
Born on October 15, 1881 (143 years old)
Passed Away on December 04, 1967
From Sunderland, England, UK
Known for Acting
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.
Cast Credits
- 1958
- 1956
- 1955
- 1954
- 1953
- 1952
- 1951
- 1950
- 1949
- 1948
- 1947
- 1946
- 1945
- 1944
The Navy Way
as
Mrs. Margaret Gimble (uncredited)
1944
Girl Rush
as
Mrs. Emma Mason
1944
Casanova Brown
as
Mrs. Smith
1944
Summer Storm
as
Beggar Woman (uncredited)
1944
San Diego I Love You
as
Mrs. Gulliver (uncredited)
1944
Ghost Guns
as
Aunt Sally
1944
Range Law
as
Boots Annie
1944
Trail to Gunsight
as
Grandma Wagner
1944
The Navy Way
as
Mrs. Margaret Gimble
1944
- 1943
- 1942
The Mad Monster
as
Grandmother
1942
Heart of the Rio Grande
as
'Skipper' Forbes
1942
Riders of the West
as
Ma Turner
1942
The Pride of the Yankees
as
Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
1942
Private Snuffy Smith
as
Lowizie Smith
1942
This Gun for Hire
as
Mrs. Mason (uncredited)
1942
Law and Order
as
Mary Todd
1942
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
as
Mrs. Kimball
1942
The Power of God
as
Esther Worne
1942
Lady in a Jam
as
Miner’s Wife (uncredited)
1942
- 1941
- 1940
- 1939
- 1938
- 1937
- 1935
- 1934
- 1933
- 1932
Blondie of the Follies
as
Ma McClune
1932
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
as
Mrs Cobb
1932
Cross-Examination
as
Mary Stevens
1932
Wild Girl
as
Lize
1932
The Midnight Lady
as
Nita St. George
1932
Women Won't Tell
as
Aggie Specks
1932
Tess of the Storm Country
as
Old Martha
1932
Young America
as
Mrs. Mary Taylor
1932
Kongo
as
Nun (uncredited)
1932
Red-Headed Woman
as
Mary, Legendre Maid (uncredited)
1932
Grand Hotel
as
Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)
1932
Rasputin and the Empress
as
Duna the Landlady (uncredited)
1932
- 1931
- 1930
- 1929
- 1928
- 1927
- 1926
