Sarah Padden

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Sunderland, England, UK, 1881-10-15

Died: 1967-12-04

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1926	Obey the Law	The Mother	0
2	1927	The Woman Who Did Not Care	Mrs. Carroll	0
3	1927	The Bugle Call	Luke's Wife	0
4	1928	Companionate Marriage	Mrs. Williams	10
5	1929	Wonder of Women	Anna	30
6	1929	The Sophomore	Mrs. Collins	45
7	1930	Trifles	Mrs. Wright	50
8	1930	Hide-Out	Mrs. Dorgan	0
9	1930	Billy the Kid	Homesteader Mrs. Foster (uncredited)	42
10	1930	Today	Emma Warner	10
11	1931	The Great Meadow	Mistress Molly Hall	50
12	1931	Bad Girl	Mrs. Gardner	59
13	1931	Sob Sister	Ma Stevens	0
14	1931	The Yellow Ticket	Mother Kalish	50
15	1931	Mata Hari	Sister Teresa (uncredited)	62
16	1932	Cross-Examination	Mary Stevens	51
17	1932	Young America	Mrs. Mary Taylor	50
18	1932	The Midnight Lady	Nita St. George	53
19	1932	Grand Hotel	Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)	69
20	1932	Red-Headed Woman	Mary, Legendre Maid (uncredited)	66
21	1932	Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm	Mrs Cobb	0
22	1932	Blondie of the Follies	Ma McClune	60
23	1932	Kongo	Nun (uncredited)	64
24	1932	Wild Girl	Lize	60
25	1932	Women Won't Tell	Aggie Specks	0
26	1932	Tess of the Storm Country	Old Martha	60
27	1932	Rasputin and the Empress	Duna the Landlady (uncredited)	53
28	1933	Face in the Sky	Ma Brown	45
29	1933	Pilgrimage		67
30	1933	The Important Witness	Deaf Woman	50
31	1933	Doctor Bull	Mary the Canning Cook	65
32	1933	Ann Vickers	Lil	59
33	1933	The Power and the Glory	Henry's Wife	59
34	1933	The Sin of Nora Moran	Mrs. Watts	58
35	1934	Man of Two Worlds	Olago	60
36	1934	As the Earth Turns	Mrs. Janowski	53
37	1934	David Harum	Widow	70
38	1934	He Was Her Man	Mrs. Gardella	68
39	1934	The Defense Rests	Mrs. Evans	70
40	1935	A Dog of Flanders	Frau Keller	70
41	1935	The Hoosier Schoolmaster	Sarah	42
42	1935	Stranded	Workman's Wife (uncredited)	58
43	1935	Mad Love	Crippled Girl's Mother (Uncredited)	69
44	1935	Anna Karenina	Governess	66
45	1937	Youth on Parole	Mrs. Blair	32
46	1937	Exiled to Shanghai	Aunt Jane	49
47	1938	Women in Prison	Martha Wilson	60
48	1938	Romance of the Limberlost	Sarah	0
49	1938	Woman Against Woman	Dora	65
50	1938	Rich Man, Poor Girl	Ma	59
51	1938	Little Tough Guys in Society	Victim	60
52	1938	Little Orphan Annie	Mrs. Nora Moriarty	0
53	1939	Off the Record	Mrs. Fallon (uncredited)	60
54	1939	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Woman Wanting Needle Threaded (uncredited)	65
55	1939	Let Freedom Ring	'Ma' Logan	60
56	1939	The Zero Hour	Sister Theodosia	45
57	1939	Should a Girl Marry?	Mrs. Wilson	35
58	1939	I Stole a Million	Lady in Post Office (uncredited)	60
59	1940	Forgotten Girls	Miss Donaldson	50
60	1940	Son of the Navy	Mrs. Baker - Landlady	55
61	1940	Lone Star Raiders	Lydia 'Granny' Phelps	0
62	1940	Chad Hanna	Mrs. Todd	60
63	1941	In Old Colorado	Ma Harriet Woods	65
64	1941	The Man Who Lost Himself	Maid	40
65	1941	City of Missing Girls	Mrs. Randolph	41
66	1941	A Woman's Face	Police Matron	70
67	1941	Murder by Invitation	Cassandra Hildegard Denham	56
68	1941	Reg'lar Fellers	Hetty Carter	43
69	1941	The Corsican Brothers	Nurse	68
70	1942	The Power of God	Esther Worne	0
71	1942	Private Snuffy Smith	Lowizie Smith	38
72	1942	Wild Bill Hickok Rides	Mrs. Kimball	47
73	1942	Heart of the Rio Grande	'Skipper' Forbes	80
74	1942	This Gun for Hire	Mrs. Mason (uncredited)	69
75	1942	The Mad Monster	Grandmother	32
76	1942	Lady in a Jam	Miner’s Wife (uncredited)	55
77	1942	The Pride of the Yankees	Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)	74
78	1942	Riders of the West	Ma Turner	40
79	1942	Law and Order	Mary Todd	60
80	1943	Assignment in Brittany	Albertine	66
81	1943	Family Troubles	Mrs. Jones	55
82	1943	Hangmen Also Die!	Mrs. Georgia Dvorak	70
83	1943	So This Is Washington	Aunt Charity Speers	48
84	1944	The Navy Way	Mrs. Margaret Gimble (uncredited)	57
85	1944	The Navy Way	Mrs. Margaret Gimble	57
86	1944	Range Law	Boots Annie	0
87	1944	Summer Storm	Beggar Woman (uncredited)	51
88	1944	Trail to Gunsight	Grandma Wagner	0
89	1944	Casanova Brown	Mrs. Smith	63
90	1944	San Diego I Love You	Mrs. Gulliver (uncredited)	63
91	1944	Girl Rush	Mrs. Emma Mason	50
92	1944	Ghost Guns	Aunt Sally	58
93	1945	Identity Unknown	Mrs. Anderson	58
94	1945	The Master Key	Aggie	0
95	1945	Wildfire	Aunt Agatha	0
96	1945	Apology for Murder	Maggie	48
97	1945	Marshal of Laredo	Mrs. Randall	0
98	1945	Song of Old Wyoming	Ma Conway	52
99	1945	Riders of the Dawn	Melinda Pringle	0
100	1945	Dakota	Mrs. Plummer	51
101	1946	Idea Girl	Old Lady	0
102	1946	So Goes My Love	Bridget	70
103	1946	Joe Palooka, Champ	Mom Palooka	0
104	1946	Angel on My Shoulder	Agatha (uncredited)	64
105	1946	Gentleman Joe Palooka	Mom Palooka	0
106	1946	My Dog Shep	Carrie Hodgkins	60
107	1946	Wild West	Carrie Bannister	0
108	1946	That Brennan Girl	Mrs. Graves, the Nice Landlady	53
109	1947	Love and Learn	Mrs. Grant (uncredited)	55
110	1947	Ramrod	Mrs. Parks	64
111	1947	Joe Palooka in the Knockout	Mom Palooka	60
112	1948	Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad	Mom Palooka	60
113	1948	The Return of the Whistler	Mrs. Hulskamp	59
114	1948	The Dude Goes West	Mrs. Hallihan	58
115	1948	Frontier Revenge	Widow Owens	50
116	1949	Homicide	Mrs. Webb	53
117	1949	Range Justice	Ma Curtis	0
118	1950	House by the River	Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook	67
119	1950	Gunslingers	Rawhide Rosie Rawlins	40
120	1950	A Life of Her Own	Betsy Ross Hotel Overseer (uncredited)	53
121	1950	Again Pioneers	Ma Ashby	35
122	1950	The Missourians	Mother Kovacs	60
123	1951	Utah Wagon Train	Sarah Wendover	50
124	1952	Big Jim McLain	Mrs. Lexiter	50
125	1955	Prince of Players	Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited)	47
126	1956	The Kettles in the Ozarks	Mrs. Tinware	64
127	1958	Screaming Mimi	Landlady	50
128	1958	Girl with an Itch	Cookie	52

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1949	The Lone Ranger	Grandma Williams	68
2	1950	The Cisco Kid	Mrs. Smiley	64
3	1950	The Cisco Kid	Sara	64
4	1951	Dragnet		65
5	1952	Adventures of Superman	Mrs. Carmody	67
6	1952	The Abbott and Costello Show	Old Lady on Street	73
7	1953	The Life Of Riley	Martha Riley	60
8	1953	The Life Of Riley	Ma Riley	60
9	1953	Letter to Loretta	Frau Lang	62
10	1954	Public Defender	Eula Mae Carter	60