Sarah Padden
Acting
- Born:
- 1881-10-15
- Died:
- 1967-12-04
- Place of birth:
- 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.
Known For
Filmography
Girl with an Itch
Screaming Mimi
The Kettles in the Ozarks
Prince of Players
Public Defender
Letter to Loretta
The Life Of Riley
The Abbott and Costello Show
Adventures of Superman
Big Jim McLain
Dragnet
Utah Wagon Train
The Missourians
Again Pioneers
The Cisco Kid
A Life of Her Own
Gunslingers
House by the River
The Lone Ranger
Range Justice
Homicide
Frontier Revenge
The Dude Goes West
The Return of the Whistler
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
Possessed
Love and Learn
Ramrod
Trail Street
That Brennan Girl
Wild West
My Dog Shep
Gentleman Joe Palooka
Angel on My Shoulder
Joe Palooka, Champ
So Goes My Love
Idea Girl
Dakota
Riders of the Dawn
Song of Old Wyoming
Marshal of Laredo
Apology for Murder
Wildfire
The Master Key
Identity Unknown
Ghost Guns
Girl Rush
San Diego I Love You
Casanova Brown
Trail to Gunsight
Summer Storm
Range Law
This Is the Life
The Navy Way
So This Is Washington
Family Troubles
Hangmen Also Die!
Assignment in Brittany
Riders of the West
Law and Order
The Pride of the Yankees
Lady in a Jam
The Mad Monster
This Gun for Hire
Heart of the Rio Grande
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Private Snuffy Smith
The Corsican Brothers
The Power of God
Reg'lar Fellers
Murder by Invitation
A Woman's Face
City of Missing Girls
The Man Who Lost Himself
In Old Colorado
Chad Hanna
Lone Star Raiders
Son of the Navy
Forgotten Girls
I Stole a Million
Should a Girl Marry?
The Zero Hour
Let Freedom Ring
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Off the Record
Little Orphan Annie
Little Tough Guys in Society
Rich Man, Poor Girl
Woman Against Woman
Romance of the Limberlost
Women in Prison
Exiled to Shanghai
Youth on Parole
Anna Karenina
Mad Love
Stranded
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
A Dog of Flanders
When Strangers Meet
The Defense Rests
Tomorrow's Children
He Was Her Man
David Harum
As the Earth Turns
Man of Two Worlds
The Sin of Nora Moran
The Power and the Glory
Ann Vickers
Doctor Bull
The Important Witness
Pilgrimage
Face in the Sky
Rasputin and the Empress
Tess of the Storm Country
Women Won't Tell
Wild Girl
Kongo
Grand Hotel
Blondie of the Follies
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Red-Headed Woman
The Midnight Lady
Young America
Cross-Examination
Mata Hari
The Yellow Ticket
Sob Sister
Bad Girl
The Great Meadow
Today
Billy the Kid
Hide-Out
Trifles
The Sophomore
Wonder of Women
Companionate Marriage
The Bugle Call
The Woman Who Did Not Care
Obey the Law