
Sarah 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.
Acting (128 movies)

Blondie of the Follies
1932

So Goes My Love
1946

House by the River
1950

The Navy Way
1944

Hangmen Also Die!
1943

Screaming Mimi
1958

The Return of the Whistler
1948

Apology for Murder
1945

A Woman's Face
1941

The Sin of Nora Moran
1933

Ann Vickers
1933

The Hoosier Schoolmaster
1935

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1932

Family Troubles
1943

The Woman Who Did Not Care
1927

The Power and the Glory
1933

Women in Prison
1938

Hide-Out
1930

The Mad Monster
1942

Heart of the Rio Grande
1942

Cross-Examination
1932

Obey the Law
1926

Riders of the West
1942

Wild Girl
1932

Billy the Kid
1930

Girl with an Itch
1958

He Was Her Man
1934

The Pride of the Yankees
1942

The Midnight Lady
1932

Rich Man, Poor Girl
1938

Riders of the Dawn
1945

Assignment in Brittany
1943

City of Missing Girls
1941

Youth on Parole
1937

Girl Rush
1944

That Brennan Girl
1946

The Master Key
1945

Exiled to Shanghai
1937

The Great Meadow
1931

David Harum
1934

Women Won't Tell
1932

Private Snuffy Smith
1942

Tess of the Storm Country
1932

Face in the Sky
1933

The Defense Rests
1934

Casanova Brown
1944

The Important Witness
1933

Romance of the Limberlost
1938

Young America
1932

The Dude Goes West
1948

As the Earth Turns
1934

Chad Hanna
1940

Today
1930

Wildfire
1945

The Zero Hour
1939

A Dog of Flanders
1935

The Sophomore
1929

Woman Against Woman
1938

So This Is Washington
1943

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939

Let Freedom Ring
1939

Summer Storm
1944

Kongo
1932

The Yellow Ticket
1931

Frontier Revenge
1948

Should a Girl Marry?
1939

Man of Two Worlds
1934

Reg'lar Fellers
1941

Dakota
1945

This Gun for Hire
1942

Lone Star Raiders
1940

Murder by Invitation
1941

Law and Order
1942

In Old Colorado
1941

Little Tough Guys in Society
1938

Red-Headed Woman
1932

Son of the Navy
1940

San Diego I Love You
1944

Pilgrimage
1933

Bad Girl
1931

Gunslingers
1950

The Missourians
1950

Utah Wagon Train
1951

Marshal of Laredo
1945

Doctor Bull
1933

Trifles
1930

Big Jim McLain
1952

Ghost Guns
1944

Love and Learn
1947

Range Law
1944

Song of Old Wyoming
1945

Trail to Gunsight
1944

Wild West
1946

Again Pioneers
1950

Ramrod
1947

Range Justice
1949

Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942

Prince of Players
1955

The Man Who Lost Himself
1941

My Dog Shep
1946
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