Sarah Padden
Acting
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.
Born: October 15, 1881
Place of Birth: Sunderland, England, UK
Known For
Filmography
as Cookie
as Landlady
as Mrs. Tinware
as Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited)
as Eula Mae Carter
as Frau Lang
as Martha Riley
as Ma Riley
as Old Lady on Street
as Mrs. Carmody
as Mrs. Lexiter
as Sarah Wendover
as Mother Kovacs
as Ma Ashby
as Betsy Ross Hotel Overseer (uncredited)
as Rawhide Rosie Rawlins
as Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook
as Grandma Williams
as Ma Curtis
as Mrs. Webb
as Widow Owens
as Mrs. Hallihan
as Mrs. Hulskamp
as Mom Palooka
as Mom Palooka
as Mrs. Norris, the Caretaker’s Wife (uncredited)
as Mrs. Parks
as Mrs. Grant (uncredited)
as Mrs. Ferguson (uncredited)
as Mrs. Graves, the Nice Landlady
as Carrie Bannister
as Carrie Hodgkins
as Mom Palooka
as Agatha (uncredited)
as Mom Palooka
as Bridget
as Mrs. Plummer
as Melinda Pringle
as Ma Conway
as Mrs. Randall
as Maggie
as Aunt Agatha
as Aggie
as Mrs. Anderson
as Aunt Sally
as Mrs. Emma Mason
as Mrs. Gulliver (uncredited)
as Mrs. Smith
as Grandma Wagner
as Beggar Woman (uncredited)
as Boots Annie
as Mrs. Margaret Gimble (uncredited)
as Mrs. Margaret Gimble
as Aunt Charity Speers
as Mrs. Georgia Dvorak
as Mrs. Jones
as Albertine
as Mary Todd
as Ma Turner
as Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
as Miner’s Wife (uncredited)
as Grandmother
as Mrs. Mason (uncredited)
as 'Skipper' Forbes
as Mrs. Kimball
as Lowizie Smith
as Esther Worne
as Nurse
as Hetty Carter
as Cassandra Hildegard Denham
as Police Matron
as Mrs. Randolph
as Maid
as Ma Harriet Woods
as Mrs. Todd
as Lydia 'Granny' Phelps
as Mrs. Baker - Landlady
as Miss Donaldson
as Lady in Post Office (uncredited)
as Mrs. Wilson
as Sister Theodosia
as 'Ma' Logan
as Woman Wanting Needle Threaded (uncredited)
as Mrs. Fallon (uncredited)
as Victim
as Ma
as Dora
as Sarah
as Martha Wilson
as Aunt Jane
as Mrs. Blair
as Governess
as Crippled Girl's Mother (Uncredited)
as Workman's Wife (uncredited)
as Sarah
as Frau Keller
as Mrs. Evans
as Mrs. Gardella
as Widow
as Mrs. Janowski
as Olago
as Mrs. Watts
as Henry's Wife
as Lil
as Mary the Canning Cook
as Deaf Woman
as Ma Brown
as Duna the Landlady (uncredited)
as Old Martha
as Aggie Specks
as Lize
as Nun (uncredited)
as Ma McClune
as Mrs Cobb
as Mary, Legendre Maid (uncredited)
as Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)
as Nita St. George
as Mrs. Mary Taylor
as Mary Stevens
as Sister Teresa (uncredited)
as Mother Kalish
as Ma Stevens
as Mrs. Gardner
as Mistress Molly Hall
as Emma Warner
as Homesteader Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
as Mrs. Dorgan
as Mrs. Wright
as Mrs. Collins
as Anna
as Mrs. Williams
as Luke's Wife
as Mrs. Carroll
as The Mother