Sarah Padden
Known For: Acting
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: October 15, 1881
Day of Death: December 4, 1967 (86 years old)
Place of Birth: Sunderland, England, UK
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.
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Actor Mrs. Margaret Gimble (uncredited)
The Navy Way
Actor Mrs. Emma Mason
Girl Rush
Actor Mrs. Smith
Casanova Brown
Actor Beggar Woman (uncredited)
Summer Storm
Actor Mrs. Gulliver (uncredited)
San Diego I Love You
Actor Aunt Sally
Ghost Guns
Actor Boots Annie
Range Law
Actor Grandma Wagner
Trail to Gunsight
Actor Mrs. Margaret Gimble
The Navy Way
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1942
Actor Grandmother
The Mad Monster
Actor 'Skipper' Forbes
Heart of the Rio Grande
Actor Ma Turner
Riders of the West
Actor Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
The Pride of the Yankees
Actor Lowizie Smith
Private Snuffy Smith
Actor Mrs. Mason (uncredited)
This Gun for Hire
Actor Mary Todd
Law and Order
Actor Mrs. Kimball
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Actor Esther Worne
The Power of God
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Actor Ma McClune
Blondie of the Follies
Actor Mrs Cobb
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Actor Mary Stevens
Cross-Examination
Actor Lize
Wild Girl
Actor Nita St. George
The Midnight Lady
Actor Aggie Specks
Women Won't Tell
Actor Old Martha
Tess of the Storm Country
Actor Mrs. Mary Taylor
Young America
Actor Nun (uncredited)
Kongo
Actor Mary, Legendre Maid (uncredited)
Red-Headed Woman
Actor Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)
Grand Hotel
Actor Duna the Landlady (uncredited)
Rasputin and the Empress
