Sarah Padden
Known for Acting · 140 credits
- Born
- 1881-10-15
- Died
- 1967-12-04
- Place of birth
- Sunderland, England, UK
- Also known as
- Sarah Ann Padden · Sara Padden
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
TV Shows (8)
Adventures of Superman
1952
as Mrs. Carmody
Dragnet
1951
The Lone Ranger
1949
as Grandma Williams
The Life Of Riley
1953
as Martha Riley
The Abbott and Costello Show
1952
as Old Lady on Street
The Cisco Kid
1950
as Mrs. Smiley / Sara
Public Defender
1954
as Eula Mae Carter
Letter to Loretta
1953
as Frau Lang
Movies (132)
Bad Girl
1931
as Mrs. Gardner
Mata Hari
1931
as Sister Teresa (uncredited)
Sob Sister
1931
as Ma Stevens
Grand Hotel
1932
as Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)
Casanova Brown
1944
as Mrs. Smith
Wild Girl
1932
as Lize
The Pride of the Yankees
1942
as Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
The Mad Monster
1942
as Grandmother
Forgotten Girls
1940
as Miss Donaldson
Women in Prison
1938
as Martha Wilson
Anna Karenina
1935
as Governess
Range Law
1944
as Boots Annie
A Woman's Face
1941
as Police Matron
Hangmen Also Die!
1943
as Mrs. Georgia Dvorak
Blondie of the Follies
1932
as Ma McClune
The Dude Goes West
1948
as Mrs. Hallihan
Dakota
1945
as Mrs. Plummer
Big Jim McLain
1952
as Mrs. Lexiter
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942
as Mrs. Kimball
This Gun for Hire
1942
as Mrs. Mason (uncredited)
Tomorrow's Children
1934
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939
as Woman Wanting Needle Threaded (uncredited)
Red-Headed Woman
1932
as Mary, Legendre Maid (uncredited)
The Yellow Ticket
1931
as Mother Kalish
House by the River
1950
as Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook
When Strangers Meet
1934
as Lucy Tarman
Man of Two Worlds
1934
as Olago
Ramrod
1947
as Mrs. Parks
Billy the Kid
1930
as Homesteader Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
Law and Order
1942
as Mary Todd
Utah Wagon Train
1951
as Sarah Wendover
The Corsican Brothers
1941
as Nurse
That Brennan Girl
1946
as Mrs. Graves, the Nice Landlady
Lady in a Jam
1942
as Miner’s Wife (uncredited)
A Life of Her Own
1950
as Betsy Ross Hotel Overseer (uncredited)
This Is the Life
1944
as Sarah (uncredited)
The Midnight Lady
1932
as Nita St. George
Angel on My Shoulder
1946
as Agatha (uncredited)
Trail Street
1947
as Mrs. Ferguson (uncredited)
Face in the Sky
1933
as Ma Brown
My Dog Shep
1946
as Carrie Hodgkins
Chad Hanna
1940
as Mrs. Todd
Summer Storm
1944
as Beggar Woman (uncredited)
Pilgrimage
1933
The Defense Rests
1934
as Mrs. Evans
Homicide
1949
as Mrs. Webb
Possessed
1947
as Mrs. Norris, the Caretaker’s Wife (uncredited)
Let Freedom Ring
1939
as 'Ma' Logan
Screaming Mimi
1958
as Landlady
A Dog of Flanders
1935
as Frau Keller
Exiled to Shanghai
1937
as Aunt Jane
Marshal of Laredo
1945
as Mrs. Randall
He Was Her Man
1934
as Mrs. Gardella
City of Missing Girls
1941
as Mrs. Randolph
Doctor Bull
1933
as Mary the Canning Cook
The Master Key
1945
as Aggie
Heart of the Rio Grande
1942
as 'Skipper' Forbes
Love and Learn
1947
as Mrs. Grant (uncredited)
I Stole a Million
1939
as Lady in Post Office (uncredited)
Rich Man, Poor Girl
1938
as Ma
Off the Record
1939
as Mrs. Fallon (uncredited)
Tess of the Storm Country
1932
as Old Martha
Song of Old Wyoming
1945
as Ma Conway
The Kettles in the Ozarks
1956
as Mrs. Tinware
So Goes My Love
1946
as Bridget
Joe Palooka, Champ
1946
as Mom Palooka
Frontier Revenge
1948
as Widow Owens
Riders of the West
1942
as Ma Turner
Rasputin and the Empress
1932
as Duna the Landlady (uncredited)
As the Earth Turns
1934
as Mrs. Janowski
Gentleman Joe Palooka
1946
as Mom Palooka
David Harum
1934
as Widow
Prince of Players
1955
as Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited)
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941
as Maid
Gunslingers
1950
as Rawhide Rosie Rawlins
Woman Against Woman
1938
as Dora
The Missourians
1950
as Mother Kovacs
The Navy Way
1944
as Mrs. Margaret Gimble (uncredited)
Young America
1932
as Mrs. Mary Taylor
The Sophomore
1929
as Mrs. Collins
Wonder of Women
1929
as Anna
The Sin of Nora Moran
1933
as Mrs. Watts
Kongo
1932
as Nun (uncredited)
Girl Rush
1944
as Mrs. Emma Mason
The Power and the Glory
1933
as Henry's Wife
Wildfire
1945
as Aunt Agatha
Identity Unknown
1945
as Mrs. Anderson
Stranded
1935
as Workman's Wife (uncredited)
Wild West
1946
as Carrie Bannister
Ghost Guns
1944
as Aunt Sally
Youth on Parole
1937
as Mrs. Blair
Women Won't Tell
1932
as Aggie Specks
Private Snuffy Smith
1942
as Lowizie Smith
Murder by Invitation
1941
as Cassandra Hildegard Denham
Family Troubles
1943
as Mrs. Jones
Companionate Marriage
1928
as Mrs. Williams
The Great Meadow
1931
as Mistress Molly Hall
Cross-Examination
1932
as Mary Stevens
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1932
as Mrs Cobb
In Old Colorado
1941
as Ma Harriet Woods
Ann Vickers
1933
as Lil
Son of the Navy
1940
as Mrs. Baker - Landlady
Mad Love
1935
as Crippled Girl's Mother (Uncredited)
The Important Witness
1933
as Deaf Woman
San Diego I Love You
1944
as Mrs. Gulliver (uncredited)
The Return of the Whistler
1948
as Mrs. Hulskamp
Assignment in Brittany
1943
as Albertine
Girl with an Itch
1958
as Cookie
Apology for Murder
1945
as Maggie
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
1948
as Mom Palooka
Reg'lar Fellers
1941
as Hetty Carter
The Zero Hour
1939
as Sister Theodosia
Riders of the Dawn
1945
as Melinda Pringle
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
1935
as Sarah
So This Is Washington
1943
as Aunt Charity Speers
Today
1930
as Emma Warner
The Bugle Call
1927
as Luke's Wife
Range Justice
1949
as Ma Curtis
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
1947
as Mom Palooka
Romance of the Limberlost
1938
as Sarah
About 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… With 140 credits spanning from 1926 to 1958, Sarah Padden has appeared in 132 films and 8 TV shows.
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Most Popular Sarah Padden Movies
- Bad Girl (1931) — as Mrs. Gardner
- Mata Hari (1931) — as Sister Teresa (uncredited)
- Sob Sister (1931) — as Ma Stevens
- Grand Hotel (1932) — as Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)
- Casanova Brown (1944) — as Mrs. Smith
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