Sarah Padden
Born October 15, 1881 (Age: 144)
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Sunderland, England, UK
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.
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.
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Filmography
Girl with an Itch
1958
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as Cookie
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Age: 77
Screaming Mimi
1958
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as Landlady
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Age: 76
The Kettles in the Ozarks
1956
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as Mrs. Tinware
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Age: 74
Prince of Players
1955
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as Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited)
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Age: 73
The Missourians
1950
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as Mother Kovacs
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Age: 69
Again Pioneers
1950
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as Ma Ashby
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Age: 69
A Life of Her Own
1950
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as Betsy Ross Hotel Overseer (uncredited)
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Age: 68
Gunslingers
1950
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as Rawhide Rosie Rawlins
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Age: 68
House by the River
1950
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as Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook
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Age: 68
Dakota
1945
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as Mrs. Plummer
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Age: 64
Riders of the Dawn
1945
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as Melinda Pringle
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Age: 64
Song of Old Wyoming
1945
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as Ma Conway
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Age: 63
Marshal of Laredo
1945
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as Mrs. Randall
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Age: 63
Apology for Murder
1945
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as Maggie
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Age: 63
Wildfire
1945
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as Aunt Agatha
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Age: 63
The Master Key
1945
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as Aggie
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Age: 63
Identity Unknown
1945
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as Mrs. Anderson
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Age: 63
Riders of the West
1942
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as Ma Turner
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Age: 60
Law and Order
1942
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as Mary Todd
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Age: 60
The Pride of the Yankees
1942
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as Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
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Age: 60
Lady in a Jam
1942
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as Miner’s Wife (uncredited)
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Age: 60
The Mad Monster
1942
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as Grandmother
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Age: 60
This Gun for Hire
1942
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as Mrs. Mason (uncredited)
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Age: 60
Heart of the Rio Grande
1942
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as 'Skipper' Forbes
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Age: 60
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942
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as Mrs. Kimball
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Age: 60
Private Snuffy Smith
1942
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as Lowizie Smith
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Age: 60
The Power of God
1942
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as Esther Worne
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Age: 60
The Corsican Brothers
1941
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as Nurse
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Age: 60
Reg'lar Fellers
1941
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as Hetty Carter
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Age: 59
Murder by Invitation
1941
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as Cassandra Hildegard Denham
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Age: 59
A Woman's Face
1941
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as Police Matron
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Age: 59
City of Missing Girls
1941
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as Mrs. Randolph
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Age: 59
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941
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as Maid
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Age: 59
In Old Colorado
1941
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as Ma Harriet Woods
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Age: 59
Rasputin and the Empress
1932
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as Duna the Landlady (uncredited)
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Age: 51
Tess of the Storm Country
1932
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as Old Martha
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Age: 51
Women Won't Tell
1932
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as Aggie Specks
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Age: 51
Wild Girl
1932
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as Lize
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Age: 51
Kongo
1932
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as Nun (uncredited)
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Age: 50
Blondie of the Follies
1932
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as Ma McClune
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Age: 50
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1932
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as Mrs Cobb
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Age: 50
Red-Headed Woman
1932
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as Mary, Legendre Maid (uncredited)
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Age: 50
The Midnight Lady
1932
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as Nita St. George
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Age: 50
Young America
1932
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as Mrs. Mary Taylor
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Age: 50
Grand Hotel
1932
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as Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)
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Age: 50
Cross-Examination
1932
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as Mary Stevens
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Age: 50
Mata Hari
1931
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as Sister Teresa (uncredited)
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Age: 50
The Yellow Ticket
1931
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as Mother Kalish
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Age: 50
Sob Sister
1931
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as Ma Stevens
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Age: 50
Bad Girl
1931
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as Mrs. Gardner
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Age: 49
The Great Meadow
1931
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as Mistress Molly Hall
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Age: 49
Today
1930
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as Emma Warner
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Age: 49
Billy the Kid
1930
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as Homesteader Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
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Age: 49
Hide-Out
1930
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as Mrs. Dorgan
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Age: 48
Trifles
1930
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as Mrs. Wright
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Age: 48