Sarah Padden

Acting · 0.6 popularity

Age

144

Movies

132

Born: October 15, 1881 – December 4, 1967
From: Sunderland, England, UK

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.

Works

132 films

Grand Hotel

19327.0

Mata Hari

19316.2

The Pride of the Yankees

19427.4

Anna Karenina

19356.6

The Kettles in the Ozarks

19566.4

Hangmen Also Die!

19436.9

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

19396.7

Bad Girl

19316.0

A Woman's Face

19416.8

Sob Sister

19317.0

This Gun for Hire

19427.0

Dakota

19455.2

Mad Love

19357.0

Possessed

19476.9

Casanova Brown

19446.4

House by the River

19506.8

Rasputin and the Empress

19325.5

Ramrod

19476.5

That Brennan Girl

19465.5

Angel on My Shoulder

19466.5

Red-Headed Woman

19326.6

Wild Girl

19326.2

The Corsican Brothers

19417.0

Trail Street

19476.5

Big Jim McLain

19525.0

Let Freedom Ring

19396.8

Summer Storm

19445.7

The Mad Monster

19423.4

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

19425.5

The Dude Goes West

19485.9

Ann Vickers

19335.8

Blondie of the Follies

19326.3

This Is the Life

19446.0

The Navy Way

19446.3

I Stole a Million

19398.0

David Harum

19347.5

A Life of Her Own

19505.3

Screaming Mimi

19585.0

Youth on Parole

19373.9

The Man Who Lost Himself

19415.4

Forgotten Girls

19405.6

When Strangers Meet

193410.0

Tomorrow's Children

19345.0

Range Law

19449.0

Doctor Bull

19336.7

Women in Prison

19388.0

Off the Record

19396.4

As the Earth Turns

19345.6

The Master Key

19458.0

Law and Order

19427.5

Woman Against Woman

19387.0

Chad Hanna

19407.3

Apology for Murder

19454.9

He Was Her Man

19346.5

The Midnight Lady

19326.5

Joe Palooka in the Knockout

19478.0

Young America

19325.5

The Defense Rests

19347.1

Cross-Examination

19325.1

City of Missing Girls

19414.7

Lady in a Jam

19425.6

Billy the Kid

19304.7

Women Won't Tell

19327.0

Range Justice

19497.0

Wild West

19469.0

Homicide

19495.7

Girl with an Itch

19585.3

The Great Meadow

19316.0

San Diego I Love You

19446.8

The Sin of Nora Moran

19335.5

Stranded

19356.0

The Zero Hour

19395.3

The Bugle Call

192710.0

In Old Colorado

19416.4

Little Tough Guys in Society

19387.3

Prince of Players

19555.5

Face in the Sky

19335.8

Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad

19488.0

The Yellow Ticket

19315.1

Identity Unknown

19455.4

Rich Man, Poor Girl

19386.1

Pilgrimage

19337.1

Son of the Navy

19406.2

Wildfire

19454.0

The Important Witness

19337.5

Gentleman Joe Palooka

1946

Again Pioneers

19505.7

Tess of the Storm Country

19327.0

Murder by Invitation

19416.0

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

193210.0

Love and Learn

19476.7

The Return of the Whistler

19486.0

Hide-Out

193010.0

Heart of the Rio Grande

19429.0

My Dog Shep

19466.3

Frontier Revenge

19486.7

Song of Old Wyoming

19455.7

Should a Girl Marry?

19395.7

Riders of the West

19426.5

Joe Palooka, Champ

19468.0

A Dog of Flanders

19357.5

So Goes My Love

19467.3

Little Orphan Annie

19388.0

Exiled to Shanghai

19375.5

Riders of the Dawn

194510.0

Gunslingers

19506.5

Man of Two Worlds

19346.5

The Power and the Glory

19335.9

Idea Girl

19468.0

Kongo

19326.4

Assignment in Brittany

19437.1

The Hoosier Schoolmaster

19354.3

So This Is Washington

19435.3

The Power of God

1942

Wonder of Women

19294.0

Ghost Guns

19446.1

The Woman Who Did Not Care

19278.0

Private Snuffy Smith

19424.3

Utah Wagon Train

19516.7

Family Troubles

19436.8

Girl Rush

19446.0

The Sophomore

19295.3

Trail to Gunsight

194410.0

Romance of the Limberlost

19386.5

Companionate Marriage

19283.3

The Missourians

19508.0

Today

19303.3

Marshal of Laredo

19458.0

Obey the Law

192610.0

Lone Star Raiders

194010.0

Reg'lar Fellers

19414.2

Trifles

19305.0