Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 15, 1881
Died
Dec 04, 1967
Place of Birth
Sunderland, England, UK
Credits
140 titles
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
Filmography
Girl with an Itch
Cookie
Screaming Mimi
Landlady
The Kettles in the Ozarks
Mrs. Tinware
Prince of Players
Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited)
Public Defender
Eula Mae Carter
Letter to Loretta
Frau Lang
The Life Of Riley
Martha Riley
The Abbott and Costello Show
Old Lady on Street
Adventures of Superman
Mrs. Carmody
Big Jim McLain
Mrs. Lexiter
Dragnet
Utah Wagon Train
Sarah Wendover
The Missourians
Mother Kovacs
Again Pioneers
Ma Ashby
The Cisco Kid
Mrs. Smiley
A Life of Her Own
Betsy Ross Hotel Overseer (uncredited)
Gunslingers
Rawhide Rosie Rawlins
House by the River
Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook
The Lone Ranger
Grandma Williams
Range Justice
Ma Curtis
Homicide
Mrs. Webb
Frontier Revenge
Widow Owens
The Dude Goes West
Mrs. Hallihan
The Return of the Whistler
Mrs. Hulskamp
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Mom Palooka
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
Mom Palooka
Possessed
Mrs. Norris, the Caretaker’s Wife (uncredited)
Ramrod
Mrs. Parks
Love and Learn
Mrs. Grant (uncredited)
Trail Street
Mrs. Ferguson (uncredited)
That Brennan Girl
Mrs. Graves, the Nice Landlady
Wild West
Carrie Bannister
My Dog Shep
Carrie Hodgkins
Gentleman Joe Palooka
Mom Palooka
Angel on My Shoulder
Agatha (uncredited)
Joe Palooka, Champ
Mom Palooka
So Goes My Love
Bridget
Idea Girl
Old Lady
Dakota
Mrs. Plummer
Riders of the Dawn
Melinda Pringle
Song of Old Wyoming
Ma Conway
Marshal of Laredo
Mrs. Randall
Apology for Murder
Maggie
Wildfire
Aunt Agatha
The Master Key
Aggie
Identity Unknown
Mrs. Anderson
Ghost Guns
Aunt Sally
Girl Rush
Mrs. Emma Mason
San Diego I Love You
Mrs. Gulliver (uncredited)
Casanova Brown
Mrs. Smith