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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