Sarah 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.
Known For
Acting
1932
asMa McClune
1946
asBridget
1950
asMrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook
1944
asMrs. Margaret Gimble (uncredited)
1943
asMrs. Georgia Dvorak
1958
asLandlady
1948
asMrs. Hulskamp
1945
asMaggie
1941
asPolice Matron
1933
asMrs. Watts
1933
asLil
1935
asSarah
1932
asMrs Cobb
1943
asMrs. Jones
1927
asMrs. Carroll
1933
asHenry's Wife
1938
asMartha Wilson
1930
asMrs. Dorgan
1942
asGrandmother
1942
as'Skipper' Forbes
1932
asMary Stevens
1926
asThe Mother
1942
asMa Turner
1932
asLize
1930
asHomesteader Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
1958
asCookie
1934
asMrs. Gardella
1942
asMrs. Roberts (uncredited)
1932
asNita St. George
1938
asMa
1945
asMelinda Pringle
1943
asAlbertine
1941
asMrs. Randolph
1937
asMrs. Blair
1944
asMrs. Emma Mason
1946
asMrs. Graves, the Nice Landlady
1945
asAggie
1937
asAunt Jane
1931
asMistress Molly Hall
1934
asWidow
1932
asAggie Specks
1942
asLowizie Smith
1932
asOld Martha
1933
asMa Brown
1934
asMrs. Evans
1944
asMrs. Smith
1933
asDeaf Woman
1938
asSarah
1932
asMrs. Mary Taylor
1948
asMrs. Hallihan
1934
asMrs. Janowski
1940
asMrs. Todd
1930
asEmma Warner
1945
asAunt Agatha
1939
asSister Theodosia
1935
asFrau Keller
1929
asMrs. Collins
1938
asDora
1943
asAunt Charity Speers
1939
asWoman Wanting Needle Threaded (uncredited)
1939
as'Ma' Logan
1944
asBeggar Woman (uncredited)
1932
asNun (uncredited)
1946
asOld Lady
1931
asMother Kalish
1948
asWidow Owens
1939
asMrs. Wilson
1934
asOlago
1941
asHetty Carter
1945
asMrs. Plummer
1942
asMrs. Mason (uncredited)
1940
asLydia 'Granny' Phelps
1941
asCassandra Hildegard Denham
1942
asMary Todd
1941
asMa Harriet Woods
1938
asVictim
1932
asMary, Legendre Maid (uncredited)
1940
asMrs. Baker - Landlady
1944
asMrs. Gulliver (uncredited)
1933
as
1931
asMrs. Gardner
1950
asRawhide Rosie Rawlins
1950
asMother Kovacs
1951
asSarah Wendover
1945
asMrs. Randall
1933
asMary the Canning Cook
1930
asMrs. Wright
1952
asMrs. Lexiter
1944
asAunt Sally
1947
asMrs. Grant (uncredited)
1944
asBoots Annie
1945
asMa Conway
1944
asGrandma Wagner
1946
asCarrie Bannister
1950
asMa Ashby
1947
asMrs. Parks
1949
asMa Curtis
1942
asMrs. Kimball
1955
asMary Todd Lincoln (uncredited)
1941
asMaid
1946
asCarrie Hodgkins
1932
asChambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)
1941
asNurse
1931
asSister Teresa (uncredited)
1932
asDuna the Landlady (uncredited)
1938
asMrs. Nora Moriarty
1939
asLady in Post Office (uncredited)
1942
asEsther Worne
1939
asMrs. Fallon (uncredited)
1935
asGoverness
1927
asLuke's Wife
1935
asWorkman's Wife (uncredited)
1929
asAnna
1944
asMrs. Margaret Gimble
1946
asMom Palooka
1948
asMom Palooka
1950
asBetsy Ross Hotel Overseer (uncredited)
1949
asMrs. Webb
1946
asAgatha (uncredited)
1956
asMrs. Tinware
1945
asMrs. Anderson
1940
asMiss Donaldson
1947
asMom Palooka
1946
asMom Palooka
1935
asCrippled Girl's Mother (Uncredited)
1931
asMa Stevens
1942
asMiner’s Wife (uncredited)
1928
asMrs. Williams
1947
asMrs. Norris, the Caretaker’s Wife (uncredited)
1947
asMrs. Ferguson (uncredited)
1934
as
1934
asLucy Tarman
asMrs. Smiley
asMrs. Carmody
asGrandma Williams
asMartha Riley
asEula Mae Carter
asMa Riley
asFrau Lang
asSara
asOld Lady on Street
asProduction
Crew
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