Sarah Padden
Acting
🎂 1881-10-15
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.
Cast credits(138)
1951
Eula Mae Carter
1954
Mrs. Smiley
1950
Sara
1950
Martha Riley
1953
Ma Riley
1953
Frau Lang
1953
Old Lady on Street
1952
Mrs. Carmody
1952
Grandma Williams
1949
Agatha (uncredited)
1946
Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)
1932
Mary, Legendre Maid (uncredited)
1932
Mrs. Watts
1933
Governess
1935
Mrs. Mason (uncredited)
1942
Mrs. Georgia Dvorak
1943
Crippled Girl's Mother (Uncredited)
1935
Mrs. Plummer
1945
Sister Teresa (uncredited)
1931
Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
1942
Mrs. Lexiter
1952
'Skipper' Forbes
1942
Mrs. Todd
1940
Lize
1932
Mrs. Evans
1934
Ma McClune
1932
Police Matron
1941
Nurse
1941
Mrs. Emma Mason
1944
Workman's Wife (uncredited)
1935
Mrs. Parks
1947
Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook
1950
Mrs. Smith
1944
Woman Wanting Needle Threaded (uncredited)
1939
Duna the Landlady (uncredited)
1932
Carrie Hodgkins
1946
Mrs. Kimball
1942
Landlady
1958
Betsy Ross Hotel Overseer (uncredited)
1950
Lady in Post Office (uncredited)
1939
The Mother
1926
Beggar Woman (uncredited)
1944
Mrs. Graves, the Nice Landlady
1946
Mrs. Grant (uncredited)
1947
Ma Stevens
1931
Miner’s Wife (uncredited)
1942
Sarah Wendover
1951
Albertine
1943
Maggie
1945
Ma Harriet Woods
1941
Mother Kalish
1931
Mrs. Webb
1949
'Ma' Logan
1939
Aggie
1945
Mrs. Gardner
1931
Nun (uncredited)
1932
Sister Theodosia
1939
Maid
1941
Cassandra Hildegard Denham
1941
Carrie Bannister
1946
Henry's Wife
1933
Sarah
1935
Mom Palooka
1947
Lil
1933
Mother Kovacs
1950
Ma Ashby
1950
Mrs. Margaret Gimble (uncredited)
1944
Mrs. Margaret Gimble
1944
Mom Palooka
1946
Luke's Wife
1927
Mrs. Hulskamp
1948
Old Martha
1932
Mrs. Baker - Landlady
1940
Widow
1934
Aunt Sally
1944
Mrs. Hallihan
1948
Mrs. Jones
1943
Mistress Molly Hall
1931
Mom Palooka
1948
Mrs. Mary Taylor
1932
Mrs. Anderson
1945
Ma Conway
1945
Bridget
1946
1933
Mrs. Williams
1928
Mrs. Blair
1937
Homesteader Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
1930
Mrs. Collins
1929
Lowizie Smith
1942
Boots Annie
1944
Dora
1938
Mrs. Nora Moriarty
1938
Mary the Canning Cook
1933
Mrs. Fallon (uncredited)
1939
Esther Worne
1942
Aunt Charity Speers
1943
Mom Palooka
1946
Mrs Cobb
1932
Ma
1938
Aunt Agatha
1945
Mrs. Randolph
1941
Grandmother
1942
Deaf Woman
1933
Rawhide Rosie Rawlins
1950
Sarah
1938
Martha Wilson
1938
Mrs. Janowski
1934
Grandma Wagner
1944
Olago
1934
Ma Turner
1942
Widow Owens
1948
Hetty Carter
1941
Aunt Jane
1937
Victim
1938
Mrs. Gulliver (uncredited)
1944
Mrs. Tinware
1956
Mrs. Gardella
1934
Ma Curtis
1949
Frau Keller
1935
Mrs. Dorgan
1930
Old Lady
1946
Mary Stevens
1932
Emma Warner
1930
Anna
1929
Miss Donaldson
1940
Nita St. George
1932
Melinda Pringle
1945
Ma Brown
1933
Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited)
1955
Mrs. Wilson
1939
Mrs. Carroll
1927
Mrs. Wright
1930
Mrs. Randall
1945
Mary Todd
1942
Lydia 'Granny' Phelps
1940
Cookie
1958
Aggie Specks
1932