Sarah Padden
132 movies · 8 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 15, 1881
- Died
- Dec 4, 1967 (age 86)
- Place of birth
- Sunderland, England, UK
- Also known as
- Sarah Ann Padden · Sara 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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
Sarah Padden: movies and TV shows
Acting (140)
- 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
- 1953
- 1953
- 1952
- 1952
- 1952 Big Jim McLain
as Mrs. Lexiter
- 1951
- 1951 Utah Wagon Train
as Sarah Wendover
- 1950 The Missourians
as Mother Kovacs
- 1950 Again Pioneers
as Ma Ashby
- 1950
- 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
- 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 Possessed
as Mrs. Norris, the Caretaker’s Wife (uncredited)
- 1947 Love and Learn
as Mrs. Grant (uncredited)
- 1947 Ramrod
as Mrs. Parks
- 1947 Trail Street
as Mrs. Ferguson (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 This Is the Life
as Sarah (uncredited)
- 1944 The Navy Way
as Mrs. Margaret Gimble (uncredited) / Mrs. Margaret Gimble
- 1943 So This Is Washington
as Aunt Charity Speers
- 1943 Family Troubles
as Mrs. Jones
- 1943 Hangmen Also Die!
as Mrs. Georgia Dvorak
- 1943 Assignment in Brittany
as Albertine
- 1942 Riders of the West
as Ma Turner
- 1942 Law and Order
as Mary Todd
- 1942 The Pride of the Yankees
as Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
- 1942 Lady in a Jam
as Miner’s Wife (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 Corsican Brothers
as Nurse
- 1942 The Power of God
as Esther Worne
- 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 When Strangers Meet
as Lucy Tarman
- 1934 The Defense Rests
as Mrs. Evans
- 1934
- 1934 He Was Her Man
as Mrs. Gardella
- 1934 David Harum
as Widow
- 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
- 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 Grand Hotel
as Chambermaid in Room 174 (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 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
- 1928 Companionate Marriage
as Mrs. Williams
- 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