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