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.
Known For
Credits
- 1958 · Girl with an Itch as Cookie
- 1958 · Screaming Mimi as Landlady
- 1956 · The Kettles in the Ozarks as Mrs. Tinware
- 1955 · Prince of Players as Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited)
- 1954 · Public Defender as Eula Mae Carter
- 1953 · Letter to Loretta as Frau Lang
- 1953 · The Life Of Riley as Martha Riley
- 1953 · The Life Of Riley as Ma Riley
- 1952 · The Abbott and Costello Show as Old Lady on Street
- 1952 · Adventures of Superman as Mrs. Carmody
- 1952 · Big Jim McLain as Mrs. Lexiter
- 1951 · Dragnet as
- 1951 · Utah Wagon Train as Sarah Wendover
- 1950 · The Missourians as Mother Kovacs
- 1950 · Again Pioneers as Ma Ashby
- 1950 · The Cisco Kid as Mrs. Smiley
- 1950 · The Cisco Kid as Sara
- 1950 · A Life of Her Own as Betsy Ross Hotel Overseer (uncredited)
- 1950 · Gunslingers as Rawhide Rosie Rawlins
- 1950 · House by the River as Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook
- 1949 · The Lone Ranger as Grandma Williams
- 1949 · Range Justice as Ma Curtis
- 1949 · Homicide as Mrs. Webb
- 1948 · Frontier Revenge as Widow Owens
- 1948 · The Dude Goes West as Mrs. Hallihan
- 1948 · The Return of the Whistler as Mrs. Hulskamp
- 1948 · Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad as Mom Palooka
- 1947 · Joe Palooka in the Knockout as Mom Palooka
- 1947 · Ramrod as Mrs. Parks
- 1947 · Love and Learn as Mrs. Grant (uncredited)
- 1946 · That Brennan Girl as Mrs. Graves, the Nice Landlady
- 1946 · Wild West as Carrie Bannister
- 1946 · My Dog Shep as Carrie Hodgkins
- 1946 · Gentleman Joe Palooka as Mom Palooka
- 1946 · Angel on My Shoulder as Agatha (uncredited)
- 1946 · Joe Palooka, Champ as Mom Palooka
- 1946 · So Goes My Love as Bridget
- 1946 · Idea Girl as Old Lady
- 1945 · Dakota as Mrs. Plummer
- 1945 · Riders of the Dawn as Melinda Pringle
- 1945 · Song of Old Wyoming as Ma Conway
- 1945 · Marshal of Laredo as Mrs. Randall
- 1945 · Apology for Murder as Maggie
- 1945 · Wildfire as Aunt Agatha
- 1945 · The Master Key as Aggie
- 1945 · Identity Unknown as Mrs. Anderson
- 1944 · Ghost Guns as Aunt Sally
- 1944 · Girl Rush as Mrs. Emma Mason
- 1944 · San Diego I Love You as Mrs. Gulliver (uncredited)
- 1944 · Casanova Brown as Mrs. Smith
- 1944 · Trail to Gunsight as Grandma Wagner
- 1944 · Summer Storm as Beggar Woman (uncredited)
- 1944 · Range Law as Boots Annie
- 1944 · The Navy Way as Mrs. Margaret Gimble (uncredited)
- 1944 · The Navy Way as Mrs. Margaret Gimble
- 1943 · So This Is Washington as Aunt Charity Speers
- 1943 · Hangmen Also Die! as Mrs. Georgia Dvorak
- 1943 · Family Troubles as Mrs. Jones
- 1943 · Assignment in Brittany as Albertine
- 1942 · Law and Order as Mary Todd
- 1942 · Riders of the West as Ma Turner
- 1942 · The Pride of the Yankees as Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
- 1942 · The Mad Monster as Grandmother
- 1942 · This Gun for Hire as Mrs. Mason (uncredited)
- 1942 · Heart of the Rio Grande as 'Skipper' Forbes
- 1942 · Wild Bill Hickok Rides as Mrs. Kimball
- 1942 · Private Snuffy Smith as Lowizie Smith
- 1942 · The Power of God as Esther Worne
- 1941 · The Corsican Brothers as Nurse
- 1941 · Reg'lar Fellers as Hetty Carter
- 1941 · Murder by Invitation as Cassandra Hildegard Denham
- 1941 · A Woman's Face as Police Matron
- 1941 · City of Missing Girls as Mrs. Randolph
- 1941 · The Man Who Lost Himself as Maid
- 1941 · In Old Colorado as Ma Harriet Woods
- 1940 · Chad Hanna as Mrs. Todd
- 1940 · Lone Star Raiders as Lydia 'Granny' Phelps
- 1940 · Son of the Navy as Mrs. Baker - Landlady
- 1940 · Forgotten Girls as Miss Donaldson
- 1939 · I Stole a Million as Lady in Post Office (uncredited)
- 1939 · Should a Girl Marry? as Mrs. Wilson
- 1939 · The Zero Hour as Sister Theodosia
- 1939 · Let Freedom Ring as 'Ma' Logan
- 1939 · The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Woman Wanting Needle Threaded (uncredited)
- 1939 · Off the Record as Mrs. Fallon (uncredited)
- 1938 · Little Orphan Annie as Mrs. Nora Moriarty
- 1938 · Little Tough Guys in Society as Victim
- 1938 · Rich Man, Poor Girl as Ma
- 1938 · Woman Against Woman as Dora
- 1938 · Romance of the Limberlost as Sarah
- 1938 · Women in Prison as Martha Wilson
- 1937 · Exiled to Shanghai as Aunt Jane
- 1937 · Youth on Parole as Mrs. Blair
- 1935 · Anna Karenina as Governess
- 1935 · Mad Love as Crippled Girl's Mother (Uncredited)
- 1935 · Stranded as Workman's Wife (uncredited)
- 1935 · The Hoosier Schoolmaster as Sarah
- 1935 · A Dog of Flanders as Frau Keller
- 1934 · The Defense Rests as Mrs. Evans
- 1934 · He Was Her Man as Mrs. Gardella
- 1934 · David Harum as Widow Cullon
- 1934 · As the Earth Turns as Mrs. Janowski
- 1934 · Man of Two Worlds as Olago
- 1933 · The Sin of Nora Moran as Mrs. Watts
- 1933 · The Power and the Glory as Henry's Wife
- 1933 · Ann Vickers as Lil
- 1933 · Doctor Bull as Mary the Canning Cook
- 1933 · The Important Witness as Deaf Woman
- 1933 · Pilgrimage as
- 1933 · Face in the Sky as Ma Brown
- 1932 · Rasputin and the Empress as Duna the Landlady (uncredited)
- 1932 · Tess of the Storm Country as Old Martha
- 1932 · Women Won't Tell as Aggie Specks
- 1932 · Wild Girl as Lize
- 1932 · Kongo as Nun (uncredited)
- 1932 · Blondie of the Follies as Ma McClune
- 1932 · Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm as Mrs Cobb
- 1932 · Red-Headed Woman as Mary, Legendre Maid (uncredited)
- 1932 · Grand Hotel as Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)
- 1932 · The Midnight Lady as Nita St. George
- 1932 · Young America as Mrs. Mary Taylor
- 1932 · Cross-Examination as Mary Stevens
- 1931 · Mata Hari as Sister Teresa (uncredited)
- 1931 · The Yellow Ticket as Mother Kalish
- 1931 · Sob Sister as Ma Stevens
- 1931 · Bad Girl as Mrs. Gardner
- 1931 · The Great Meadow as Mistress Molly Hall
- 1930 · Today as Emma Warner
- 1930 · Billy the Kid as Homesteader Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
- 1930 · Hide-Out as Mrs. Dorgan
- 1930 · Trifles as Mrs. Wright
- 1929 · The Sophomore as Mrs. Collins
- 1929 · Wonder of Women as Anna
- 1927 · The Bugle Call as Luke's Wife
- 1927 · The Woman Who Did Not Care as Mrs. Carroll
- 1926 · Obey the Law as The Mother