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