Sarah Padden
Acting
Born 1881-10-15
Died 1967-12-04
Sunderland, England, UK
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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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58 credits
Adventures of Superman
The Lone Ranger
The Life Of Riley
The Abbott and Costello Show
The Cisco Kid
Public Defender
Grand Hotel
Letter to Loretta
Mata Hari
Hangmen Also Die!
A Woman's Face
Anna Karenina
This Gun for Hire
Possessed
Ramrod
Wild Girl
Dakota
House by the River
The Corsican Brothers
Trail Street
Red-Headed Woman
The Pride of the Yankees
Mad Love
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Casanova Brown
Sob Sister
Rasputin and the Empress
Bad Girl
Big Jim McLain
Angel on My Shoulder
Blondie of the Follies
Ann Vickers
The Dude Goes West
He Was Her Man
Young America
David Harum
A Life of Her Own
The Kettles in the Ozarks
Forgotten Girls
I Stole a Million
That Brennan Girl
The Defense Rests
Summer Storm
Lady in a Jam
In Old Colorado
Range Law
Identity Unknown
Homicide
Chad Hanna
The Mad Monster
Prince of Players
This Is the Life
Youth on Parole
The Sin of Nora Moran
Riders of the Dawn
The Midnight Lady
Girl Rush
My Dog Shep
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