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.
Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1881-10-15
Place of birth
Sunderland, England, UK
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Cast
Blondie of the Follies
1932
6.00
So Goes My Love
1946
7.00
House by the River
1950
6.68
The Navy Way
1944
5.70
Hangmen Also Die!
1943
6.94
Screaming Mimi
1958
5.00
The Return of the Whistler
1948
5.90
Apology for Murder
1945
4.80
A Woman's Face
1941
6.90
The Sin of Nora Moran
1933
5.50
Ann Vickers
1933
5.90
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
1935
4.20
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1932
0.00
Family Troubles
1943
5.50
The Woman Who Did Not Care
1927
0.00
The Power and the Glory
1933
6.00
Women in Prison
1938
6.00
Hide-Out
1930
0.00
The Mad Monster
1942
3.23
Heart of the Rio Grande
1942
8.00
Cross-Examination
1932
4.63
Obey the Law
1926
0.00
Riders of the West
1942
4.00
Wild Girl
1932
6.00
Billy the Kid
1930
4.33
Girl with an Itch
1958
5.20
He Was Her Man
1934
6.25
The Pride of the Yankees
1942
7.40
The Midnight Lady
1932
5.30
Rich Man, Poor Girl
1938
5.90
Riders of the Dawn
1945
0.00
Assignment in Brittany
1943
6.60
City of Missing Girls
1941
4.00
Youth on Parole
1937
2.80
Girl Rush
1944
5.00
That Brennan Girl
1946
5.30
The Master Key
1945
0.00
Exiled to Shanghai
1937
4.90
The Great Meadow
1931
5.00
David Harum
1934
7.00
Women Won't Tell
1932
4.00
Private Snuffy Smith
1942
3.80
Tess of the Storm Country
1932
6.00
Face in the Sky
1933
4.50
The Defense Rests
1934
7.00
Casanova Brown
1944
6.30
The Important Witness
1933
5.00
Romance of the Limberlost
1938
0.00
Young America
1932
5.00
As the Earth Turns
1934
5.30
The Dude Goes West
1948
5.80
Chad Hanna
1940
6.00
Today
1930
1.00
Wildfire
1945
1.00
The Zero Hour
1939
4.50
A Dog of Flanders
1935
7.00
The Sophomore
1929
4.50
Woman Against Woman
1938
6.50
So This Is Washington
1943
5.00
Let Freedom Ring
1939
6.00
Summer Storm
1944
5.30
Kongo
1932
6.39
Idea Girl
1946
0.00
The Yellow Ticket
1931
5.00
Frontier Revenge
1948
5.00
Should a Girl Marry?
1939
3.50
Man of Two Worlds
1934
6.00
Reg'lar Fellers
1941
3.88
Dakota
1945
5.08
This Gun for Hire
1942
6.92
Lone Star Raiders
1940
0.00
Murder by Invitation
1941
5.60
Law and Order
1942
6.00
In Old Colorado
1941
6.67
Little Tough Guys in Society
1938
6.00
Red-Headed Woman
1932
6.68
Son of the Navy
1940
5.50
San Diego I Love You
1944
6.25
Pilgrimage
1933
6.90
Bad Girl
1931
5.90
Gunslingers
1950
4.00
The Missourians
1950
6.00
Utah Wagon Train
1951
5.00
Marshal of Laredo
1945
0.00
Doctor Bull
1933
6.46
Trifles
1930
5.00
Big Jim McLain
1952
4.90
Ghost Guns
1944
5.83
Love and Learn
1947
5.50
Range Law
1944
0.00
Trail to Gunsight
1944
0.00
Song of Old Wyoming
1945
5.20
Wild West
1946
0.00
Again Pioneers
1950
3.50
Ramrod
1947
6.50
Range Justice
1949
0.00
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942
4.70
Prince of Players
1955
4.70
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941
4.00
My Dog Shep
1946
6.00
Grand Hotel
1932
6.96
The Corsican Brothers
1941
6.70
Mata Hari
1931
6.20
Rasputin and the Empress
1932
5.33
Little Orphan Annie
1938
0.00
I Stole a Million
1939
6.00
The Power of God
1942
0.00
Off the Record
1939
6.00
Anna Karenina
1935
6.60
The Bugle Call
1927
0.00
Stranded
1935
5.80
Wonder of Women
1929
3.70
The Navy Way
1944
5.70
Joe Palooka, Champ
1946
0.00
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
1948
6.00
A Life of Her Own
1950
5.30
Homicide
1949
5.30
Angel on My Shoulder
1946
6.40
The Kettles in the Ozarks
1956
6.40
Identity Unknown
1945
5.00
Forgotten Girls
1940
5.00
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
1947
6.00
Gentleman Joe Palooka
1946
0.00
Mad Love
1935
7.00
Sob Sister
1931
0.00
Lady in a Jam
1942
5.50
Companionate Marriage
1928
1.00