Sarah Padden
Known for Acting · 139 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)
Dragnet
1951
The Lone Ranger
1949
as Grandma Williams
Adventures of Superman
1952
as Mrs. Carmody
Public Defender
1954
as Eula Mae Carter
The Abbott and Costello Show
1952
as Old Lady on Street
The Cisco Kid
1950
as Mrs. Smiley / Sara
The Life Of Riley
1953
as Martha Riley / Ma Riley
Letter to Loretta
1953
as Frau Lang
Movies (131)
Grand Hotel
1932
as Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)
That Brennan Girl
1946
as Mrs. Graves, the Nice Landlady
Angel on My Shoulder
1946
as Agatha (uncredited)
Summer Storm
1944
as Beggar Woman (uncredited)
Stranded
1935
as Workman's Wife (uncredited)
The Sophomore
1929
as Mrs. Collins
Wild Girl
1932
as Lize
Young America
1932
as Mrs. Mary Taylor
Trail Street
1947
as Mrs. Ferguson (uncredited)
The Pride of the Yankees
1942
as Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
The Missourians
1950
as Mother Kovacs
Possessed
1947
as Mrs. Norris, the Caretaker’s Wife (uncredited)
This Gun for Hire
1942
as Mrs. Mason (uncredited)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939
as Woman Wanting Needle Threaded (uncredited)
A Woman's Face
1941
as Police Matron
Companionate Marriage
1928
as Mrs. Williams
Screaming Mimi
1958
as Landlady
Pilgrimage
1933
Anna Karenina
1935
as Governess
Dakota
1945
as Mrs. Plummer
Mata Hari
1931
as Sister Teresa (uncredited)
Women in Prison
1938
as Martha Wilson
Girl Rush
1944
as Mrs. Emma Mason
Ramrod
1947
as Mrs. Parks
Red-Headed Woman
1932
as Mary, Legendre Maid (uncredited)
Bad Girl
1931
as Mrs. Gardner
Blondie of the Follies
1932
as Ma McClune
Hangmen Also Die!
1943
as Mrs. Georgia Dvorak
The Yellow Ticket
1931
as Mother Kalish
Kongo
1932
as Nun (uncredited)
Trifles
1930
as Mrs. Wright
The Corsican Brothers
1941
as Nurse
Ann Vickers
1933
as Lil
Mad Love
1935
as Crippled Girl's Mother (Uncredited)
Let Freedom Ring
1939
as 'Ma' Logan
Again Pioneers
1950
as Ma Ashby
House by the River
1950
as Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook
The Navy Way
1944
as Mrs. Margaret Gimble (uncredited)
The Dude Goes West
1948
as Mrs. Hallihan
Utah Wagon Train
1951
as Sarah Wendover
Big Jim McLain
1952
as Mrs. Lexiter
Rasputin and the Empress
1932
as Duna the Landlady (uncredited)
A Life of Her Own
1950
as Betsy Ross Hotel Overseer (uncredited)
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
1947
as Mom Palooka
Woman Against Woman
1938
as Dora
Youth on Parole
1937
as Mrs. Blair
San Diego I Love You
1944
as Mrs. Gulliver (uncredited)
Casanova Brown
1944
as Mrs. Smith
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941
as Maid
Wildfire
1945
as Aunt Agatha
David Harum
1934
as Widow
The Mad Monster
1942
as Grandmother
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942
as Mrs. Kimball
Heart of the Rio Grande
1942
as 'Skipper' Forbes
He Was Her Man
1934
as Mrs. Gardella
Homicide
1949
as Mrs. Webb
Cross-Examination
1932
as Mary Stevens
In Old Colorado
1941
as Ma Harriet Woods
The Power and the Glory
1933
as Henry's Wife
The Sin of Nora Moran
1933
as Mrs. Watts
As the Earth Turns
1934
as Mrs. Janowski
Little Tough Guys in Society
1938
as Victim
So This Is Washington
1943
as Aunt Charity Speers
Range Law
1944
as Boots Annie
Tomorrow's Children
1934
Wild West
1946
as Carrie Bannister
Lady in a Jam
1942
as Miner’s Wife (uncredited)
I Stole a Million
1939
as Lady in Post Office (uncredited)
Prince of Players
1955
as Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited)
Love and Learn
1947
as Mrs. Grant (uncredited)
Doctor Bull
1933
as Mary the Canning Cook
Off the Record
1939
as Mrs. Fallon (uncredited)
The Master Key
1945
as Aggie
Assignment in Brittany
1943
as Albertine
The Return of the Whistler
1948
as Mrs. Hulskamp
Apology for Murder
1945
as Maggie
Chad Hanna
1940
as Mrs. Todd
The Power of God
1942
as Esther Worne
Face in the Sky
1933
as Ma Brown
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1932
as Mrs Cobb
Rich Man, Poor Girl
1938
as Ma
The Woman Who Did Not Care
1927
as Mrs. Carroll
The Midnight Lady
1932
as Nita St. George
Billy the Kid
1930
as Homesteader Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
The Great Meadow
1931
as Mistress Molly Hall
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
1948
as Mom Palooka
The Important Witness
1933
as Deaf Woman
Law and Order
1942
as Mary Todd
Riders of the West
1942
as Ma Turner
The Defense Rests
1934
as Mrs. Evans
Gentleman Joe Palooka
1946
as Mom Palooka
The Zero Hour
1939
as Sister Theodosia
Gunslingers
1950
as Rawhide Rosie Rawlins
Little Orphan Annie
1938
as Mrs. Nora Moriarty
City of Missing Girls
1941
as Mrs. Randolph
Forgotten Girls
1940
as Miss Donaldson
Riders of the Dawn
1945
as Melinda Pringle
Frontier Revenge
1948
as Widow Owens
The Kettles in the Ozarks
1956
as Mrs. Tinware
Range Justice
1949
as Ma Curtis
Joe Palooka, Champ
1946
as Mom Palooka
Identity Unknown
1945
as Mrs. Anderson
Girl with an Itch
1958
as Cookie
Romance of the Limberlost
1938
as Sarah
A Dog of Flanders
1935
as Frau Keller
Murder by Invitation
1941
as Cassandra Hildegard Denham
Tess of the Storm Country
1932
as Old Martha
Idea Girl
1946
as Old Lady
Lone Star Raiders
1940
as Lydia 'Granny' Phelps
Exiled to Shanghai
1937
as Aunt Jane
Today
1930
as Emma Warner
My Dog Shep
1946
as Carrie Hodgkins
When Strangers Meet
1934
as Lucy Tarman
Obey the Law
1926
as The Mother
Sob Sister
1931
as Ma Stevens
Hide-Out
1930
as Mrs. Dorgan
Private Snuffy Smith
1942
as Lowizie Smith
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
1935
as Sarah
Son of the Navy
1940
as Mrs. Baker - Landlady
Marshal of Laredo
1945
as Mrs. Randall
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 139 credits spanning from 1926 to 1958, Sarah Padden has appeared in 131 films and 8 TV shows.
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Most Popular Sarah Padden Movies
- Grand Hotel (1932) — as Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)
- That Brennan Girl (1946) — as Mrs. Graves, the Nice Landlady
- Angel on My Shoulder (1946) — as Agatha (uncredited)
- Summer Storm (1944) — as Beggar Woman (uncredited)
- Stranded (1935) — as Workman's Wife (uncredited)
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