Sarah Padden
Acting
🎂 1881-10-15
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(138)
1951
Grandma Williams
1949
Mrs. Smiley
1950
Sara
1950
Eula Mae Carter
1954
Mrs. Carmody
1952
Old Lady on Street
1952
Martha Riley
1953
Ma Riley
1953
Frau Lang
1953
Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)
1932
Lady in Post Office (uncredited)
1939
Mrs. Lexiter
1952
Mrs. Nora Moriarty
1938
Mrs. Webb
1949
Victim
1938
Mrs. Plummer
1945
Olago
1934
Mrs. Mason (uncredited)
1942
Mrs. Parks
1947
Mrs. Randolph
1941
Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
1942
Mrs. Georgia Dvorak
1943
Widow Owens
1948
Mrs. Wright
1930
Maggie
1945
Luke's Wife
1927
Lize
1932
Governess
1935
Miss Donaldson
1940
Mrs. Hallihan
1948
Agatha (uncredited)
1946
Ma
1938
Mom Palooka
1946
Woman Wanting Needle Threaded (uncredited)
1939
Mrs. Evans
1934
Sister Teresa (uncredited)
1931
Aunt Charity Speers
1943
Police Matron
1941
Dora
1938
Lil
1933
Ma Conway
1945
Mrs. Emma Mason
1944
Mrs. Collins
1929
Mom Palooka
1946
Nurse
1941
Mrs. Janowski
1934
Mary Stevens
1932
Mrs. Graves, the Nice Landlady
1946
Ma Ashby
1950
Mrs. Todd
1940
'Ma' Logan
1939
Maid
1941
'Skipper' Forbes
1942
Mrs. Kimball
1942
Deaf Woman
1933
Ma Harriet Woods
1941
Aunt Jane
1937
Mrs. Hulskamp
1948
Sarah Wendover
1951
Mrs Cobb
1932
Cassandra Hildegard Denham
1941
Aggie
1945
Miner’s Wife (uncredited)
1942
Mother Kovacs
1950
Mrs. Fallon (uncredited)
1939
Ma Stevens
1931
Workman's Wife (uncredited)
1935
Nun (uncredited)
1932
Mrs. Gardner
1931
Carrie Bannister
1946
Crippled Girl's Mother (Uncredited)
1935
Mrs. Smith
1944
Mrs. Blair
1937
Homesteader Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
1930
Mrs. Anderson
1945
Mrs. Jones
1943
Sister Theodosia
1939
Mom Palooka
1948
Anna
1929
1933
Ma Brown
1933
Beggar Woman (uncredited)
1944
Ma McClune
1932
Mrs. Grant (uncredited)
1947
Duna the Landlady (uncredited)
1932
Sarah
1935
Albertine
1943
Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook
1950
Mrs. Dorgan
1930
Mom Palooka
1947
Ma Turner
1942
Mrs. Gardella
1934
Hetty Carter
1941
Widow
1934
Landlady
1958
Mary the Canning Cook
1933
Mary, Legendre Maid (uncredited)
1932
Mrs. Wilson
1939
Ma Curtis
1949
Mrs. Randall
1945
Emma Warner
1930
Mrs. Mary Taylor
1932
Grandma Wagner
1944
Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited)
1955
Rawhide Rosie Rawlins
1950
Lowizie Smith
1942
Mrs. Watts
1933
Mary Todd
1942
Mother Kalish
1931
Old Martha
1932
Nita St. George
1932
Mrs. Williams
1928
Aunt Sally
1944
Bridget
1946
Mrs. Tinware
1956
Aggie Specks
1932
Henry's Wife
1933
The Mother
1926
Old Lady
1946
Betsy Ross Hotel Overseer (uncredited)
1950
Mrs. Baker - Landlady
1940
Aunt Agatha
1945
Mrs. Gulliver (uncredited)
1944
Grandmother
1942
Sarah
1938
Mistress Molly Hall
1931
Mrs. Carroll
1927
Martha Wilson
1938
Mrs. Margaret Gimble (uncredited)
1944
Mrs. Margaret Gimble
1944
Boots Annie
1944
Frau Keller
1935
Lydia 'Granny' Phelps
1940
Cookie
1958
Esther Worne
1942
Melinda Pringle
1945
Carrie Hodgkins
1946