Sarah Padden

Sarah Padden

Birthday: 1881-10-15

Deathday: 1967-12-04

Place of birth: Sunderland, England, UK

Also known as: Sarah Ann Padden, Sara Padden

imdb_id: nm0655605

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.

Played in movies:

Heart of the Rio Grande

Score: 8.0

The Pride of the Yankees

Score: 7.4

Mad Love

Score: 7.0

Grand Hotel

Score: 7.0

A Dog of Flanders

Score: 7.0

The Defense Rests

Score: 7.0

David Harum

Score: 7.0

So Goes My Love

Score: 7.0

This Gun for Hire

Score: 6.9

Hangmen Also Die!

Score: 6.9

Possessed

Score: 6.9

Pilgrimage

Score: 6.9

A Woman's Face

Score: 6.9

The Corsican Brothers

Score: 6.7

House by the River

Score: 6.7

Red-Headed Woman

Score: 6.7

Anna Karenina

Score: 6.6

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Score: 6.6

Assignment in Brittany

Score: 6.6

Ramrod

Score: 6.5

Woman Against Woman

Score: 6.5

Doctor Bull

Score: 6.5

Trail Street

Score: 6.4

The Kettles in the Ozarks

Score: 6.4

Angel on My Shoulder

Score: 6.4

Kongo

Score: 6.4

Casanova Brown

Score: 6.3

San Diego I Love You

Score: 6.3

Mata Hari

Score: 6.2

He Was Her Man

Score: 6.2

Joe Palooka in the Knockout

Score: 6.0

Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad

Score: 6.0

Off the Record

Score: 6.0

I Stole a Million

Score: 6.0

My Dog Shep

Score: 6.0

The Missourians

Score: 6.0

Little Tough Guys in Society

Score: 6.0

Law and Order

Score: 6.0

Man of Two Worlds

Score: 6.0

Let Freedom Ring

Score: 6.0

Chad Hanna

Score: 6.0

Romance of the Limberlost

Score: 6.0

Tess of the Storm Country

Score: 6.0

Wild Girl

Score: 6.0

Women in Prison

Score: 6.0

The Power and the Glory

Score: 6.0

Blondie of the Follies

Score: 6.0

Bad Girl

Score: 5.9

Rich Man, Poor Girl

Score: 5.9

Ann Vickers

Score: 5.9

The Return of the Whistler

Score: 5.9

Ghost Guns

Score: 5.8

Stranded

Score: 5.8

The Dude Goes West

Score: 5.8

In Old Colorado

Score: 5.8

The Navy Way

Score: 5.7

The Navy Way

Score: 5.7

Murder by Invitation

Score: 5.7

Lady in a Jam

Score: 5.5

Love and Learn

Score: 5.5

Son of the Navy

Score: 5.5

Family Troubles

Score: 5.5

The Sin of Nora Moran

Score: 5.5

Rasputin and the Empress

Score: 5.3

Homicide

Score: 5.3

A Life of Her Own

Score: 5.3

Summer Storm

Score: 5.3

As the Earth Turns

Score: 5.3

That Brennan Girl

Score: 5.3

The Midnight Lady

Score: 5.3

Song of Old Wyoming

Score: 5.2

Girl with an Itch

Score: 5.2

Dakota

Score: 5.1

Screaming Mimi

Score: 5.0

Forgotten Girls

Score: 5.0

Identity Unknown

Score: 5.0

Trifles

Score: 5.0

Utah Wagon Train

Score: 5.0

Frontier Revenge

Score: 5.0

The Yellow Ticket

Score: 5.0

So This Is Washington

Score: 5.0

Young America

Score: 5.0

The Important Witness

Score: 5.0

The Great Meadow

Score: 5.0

Girl Rush

Score: 5.0

Big Jim McLain

Score: 4.9

Exiled to Shanghai

Score: 4.9

Apology for Murder

Score: 4.8

Prince of Players

Score: 4.7

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

Score: 4.7

Face in the Sky

Score: 4.7

Cross-Examination

Score: 4.6

The Sophomore

Score: 4.5

The Zero Hour

Score: 4.5

Billy the Kid

Score: 4.3

The Hoosier Schoolmaster

Score: 4.2

The Man Who Lost Himself

Score: 4.0

Gunslingers

Score: 4.0

Women Won't Tell

Score: 4.0

City of Missing Girls

Score: 4.0

Riders of the West

Score: 4.0

Reg'lar Fellers

Score: 3.9

Private Snuffy Smith

Score: 3.8

Wonder of Women

Score: 3.7

Again Pioneers

Score: 3.5

Should a Girl Marry?

Score: 3.5

The Mad Monster

Score: 3.3

Youth on Parole

Score: 2.8

Companionate Marriage

Score: 1.0

Wildfire

Score: 1.0

Today

Score: 1.0

Sob Sister

Score: 0.0

Gentleman Joe Palooka

Score: 0.0

Joe Palooka, Champ

Score: 0.0

The Bugle Call

Score: 0.0

The Power of God

Score: 0.0

Little Orphan Annie

Score: 0.0

Range Justice

Score: 0.0

Wild West

Score: 0.0

Trail to Gunsight

Score: 0.0

Range Law

Score: 0.0

Marshal of Laredo

Score: 0.0

Lone Star Raiders

Score: 0.0

Idea Girl

Score: 0.0

The Master Key

Score: 0.0

Riders of the Dawn

Score: 0.0

Obey the Law

Score: 0.0

Hide-Out

Score: 0.0

The Woman Who Did Not Care

Score: 0.0

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Abbott and Costello Show

Score: 7.2

Adventures of Superman

Score: 6.7

The Lone Ranger

Score: 6.7

Letter to Loretta

Score: 6.5

Dragnet

Score: 6.4

Public Defender

Score: 6.0

The Life Of Riley

Score: 6.0

The Life Of Riley

Score: 6.0

The Cisco Kid

Score: 5.9

The Cisco Kid

Score: 5.9