Sarah Padden
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
Dragnet
1951
Series
The Lone Ranger
Grandma Williams
1949
Series
Adventures of Superman
Mrs. Carmody
1952
Series
The Life Of Riley
Martha Riley
1953
Series
The Abbott and Costello Show
Old Lady on Street
1952
Series
The Cisco Kid
Mrs. Smiley
1950
Series
The Cisco Kid
Sara
1950
Series
Public Defender
Eula Mae Carter
1954
Film
Grand Hotel
Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)
1932
Series
Letter to Loretta
Frau Lang
1953
Film
Mata Hari
Sister Teresa (uncredited)
1931
Film
Hangmen Also Die!
Mrs. Georgia Dvorak
1943
Film
A Woman's Face
Police Matron
1941
Film
This Gun for Hire
Mrs. Mason (uncredited)
1942
Film
Anna Karenina
Governess
1935
Film
Red-Headed Woman
Mary, Legendre Maid (uncredited)
1932
Film
Possessed
Mrs. Norris, the Caretaker’s Wife (uncredited)
1947
Film
The Pride of the Yankees
Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
1942
Film
Mad Love
Crippled Girl's Mother (Uncredited)
1935
Film
Dakota
Mrs. Plummer
1945
Film
Bad Girl
Mrs. Gardner
1931
Film
Ramrod
Mrs. Parks
1947
Film
Casanova Brown
Mrs. Smith
1944
Film
Big Jim McLain
Mrs. Lexiter
1952
Film
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Woman Wanting Needle Threaded (uncredited)
1939
Film
Angel on My Shoulder
Agatha (uncredited)
1946
Film
Wild Girl
Lize
1932
Film
Sob Sister
Ma Stevens
1931
Film
Trail Street
Mrs. Ferguson (uncredited)
1947
Film
The Corsican Brothers
Nurse
1941
Film
House by the River
Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook
1950
Film
Doctor Bull
Mary the Canning Cook
1933
Film
Rasputin and the Empress
Duna the Landlady (uncredited)
1932
Film
A Life of Her Own
Betsy Ross Hotel Overseer (uncredited)
1950
Film
Range Law
Boots Annie
1944
Film
Lady in a Jam
Miner’s Wife (uncredited)
1942
Film
The Kettles in the Ozarks
Mrs. Tinware
1956
Film
Ann Vickers
Lil
1933
Film
Blondie of the Follies
Ma McClune
1932
Film
Homicide
Mrs. Webb
1949
Film
Summer Storm
Beggar Woman (uncredited)
1944
Film
Young America
Mrs. Mary Taylor
1932
Film
Stranded
Workman's Wife (uncredited)
1935
Film
Tomorrow's Children
1934
Film
The Mad Monster
Grandmother
1942
Film
That Brennan Girl
Mrs. Graves, the Nice Landlady
1946
Film
I Stole a Million
Lady in Post Office (uncredited)
1939
Film
He Was Her Man
Mrs. Gardella
1934
Film
The Defense Rests
Mrs. Evans
1934
Film
In Old Colorado
Ma Harriet Woods
1941
Film
The Dude Goes West
Mrs. Hallihan
1948
Film
Forgotten Girls
Miss Donaldson
1940
Film
Pilgrimage
1933
Film
Screaming Mimi
Landlady
1958
Film
David Harum
Widow
1934
Film
Youth on Parole
Mrs. Blair
1937
Film
Chad Hanna
Mrs. Todd
1940
Film
Son of the Navy
Mrs. Baker - Landlady
1940
Film
Utah Wagon Train
Sarah Wendover
1951
Film
Little Tough Guys in Society
Victim
1938
Film
The Midnight Lady
Nita St. George
1932
Film
Girl Rush
Mrs. Emma Mason
1944
Film
Women in Prison
Martha Wilson
1938
Film
This Is the Life
Sarah (uncredited)
1944
Film
The Return of the Whistler
Mrs. Hulskamp
1948
Film
Again Pioneers
Ma Ashby
1950
Film
Billy the Kid
Homesteader Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
1930
Film
Range Justice
Ma Curtis
1949
Film
When Strangers Meet
Lucy Tarman
1934
Film
Identity Unknown
Mrs. Anderson
1945
Film
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Mrs. Kimball
1942
Film
My Dog Shep
Carrie Hodgkins
1946
Film
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Mom Palooka
1948
Film
Should a Girl Marry?
Mrs. Wilson
1939
Film
City of Missing Girls
Mrs. Randolph
1941
Film
Murder by Invitation
Cassandra Hildegard Denham
1941
Film
The Yellow Ticket
Mother Kalish
1931
Film
Riders of the West
Ma Turner
1942
Film
Law and Order
Mary Todd
1942
Film
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Mrs Cobb
1932
Film
The Navy Way
Mrs. Margaret Gimble (uncredited)
1944
Film
The Navy Way
Mrs. Margaret Gimble
1944
Film
Apology for Murder
Maggie
1945
Film
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
Mom Palooka
1947
Film
The Sin of Nora Moran
Mrs. Watts
1933
Film
The Great Meadow
Mistress Molly Hall
1931
Film
Love and Learn
Mrs. Grant (uncredited)
1947
Film
San Diego I Love You
Mrs. Gulliver (uncredited)
1944
Film
So This Is Washington
Aunt Charity Speers
1943
Film
Prince of Players
Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited)
1955
Film
Wild West
Carrie Bannister
1946
Film
Gentleman Joe Palooka
Mom Palooka
1946
Film
Exiled to Shanghai
Aunt Jane
1937
Film
Wonder of Women
Anna
1929
Film
Rich Man, Poor Girl
Ma
1938
Film
Off the Record
Mrs. Fallon (uncredited)
1939
Film
The Zero Hour
Sister Theodosia
1939
Film
As the Earth Turns
Mrs. Janowski
1934
Film
Face in the Sky
Ma Brown
1933
Film
Let Freedom Ring
'Ma' Logan
1939
Film
The Bugle Call
Luke's Wife
1927
Film
A Dog of Flanders
Frau Keller
1935
Film
Joe Palooka, Champ
Mom Palooka
1946
Film
Frontier Revenge
Widow Owens
1948
Film
Song of Old Wyoming
Ma Conway
1945
Film
Riders of the Dawn
Melinda Pringle
1945
Film
Trail to Gunsight
Grandma Wagner
1944
Film
Woman Against Woman
Dora
1938
Film
The Man Who Lost Himself
Maid
1941
Film
Girl with an Itch
Cookie
1958
Film
The Power and the Glory
Henry's Wife
1933
Film
Lone Star Raiders
Lydia 'Granny' Phelps
1940
Film
Kongo
Nun (uncredited)
1932
Film
The Important Witness
Deaf Woman
1933
Film
Tess of the Storm Country
Old Martha
1932
Film
Heart of the Rio Grande
'Skipper' Forbes
1942
Film
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
Sarah
1935
Little Orphan Annie
Mrs. Nora Moriarty
1938
Film
So Goes My Love
Bridget
1946
Film
Wildfire
Aunt Agatha
1945
Film
The Master Key
Aggie
1945
Film
The Power of God
Esther Worne
1942
Film
Romance of the Limberlost
Sarah
1938
Film
Man of Two Worlds
Olago
1934
Film
Family Troubles
Mrs. Jones
1943
Film
The Sophomore
Mrs. Collins
1929
Idea Girl
Old Lady
1946
Film
The Woman Who Did Not Care
Mrs. Carroll
1927
Film
Women Won't Tell
Aggie Specks
1932
Film
Gunslingers
Rawhide Rosie Rawlins
1950
Film
Assignment in Brittany
Albertine
1943
Film
Private Snuffy Smith
Lowizie Smith
1942
Film
Companionate Marriage
Mrs. Williams
1928
Film
Hide-Out
Mrs. Dorgan
1930
Film
The Missourians
Mother Kovacs
1950
Film
Ghost Guns
Aunt Sally
1944
Film
Obey the Law
The Mother
1926
Film
Cross-Examination
Mary Stevens
1932
Film
Marshal of Laredo
Mrs. Randall
1945
Film
Reg'lar Fellers
Hetty Carter
1941
Film
Trifles
Mrs. Wright
1930
Film
Today
Emma Warner
1930