Acting
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.
Filmography
Screaming Mimi
Film · 1958
Girl with an Itch
Film · 1958
The Kettles in the Ozarks
Film · 1956
Prince of Players
Film · 1955
Public Defender
Series · 1954
The Life Of Riley
Series · 1953
Letter to Loretta
Series · 1953
Big Jim McLain
Film · 1952
Adventures of Superman
Series · 1952
The Abbott and Costello Show
Series · 1952
Utah Wagon Train
Film · 1951
Dragnet
Series · 1951
House by the River
Film · 1950
Gunslingers
Film · 1950
The Missourians
Film · 1950
Again Pioneers
Film · 1950
A Life of Her Own
Film · 1950
The Cisco Kid
Series · 1950
The Cisco Kid
Series · 1950
Range Justice
Film · 1949
Homicide
Film · 1949
The Lone Ranger
Series · 1949
The Return of the Whistler
Film · 1948
The Dude Goes West
Film · 1948
Frontier Revenge
Film · 1948
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Film · 1948
Love and Learn
Film · 1947
Ramrod
Film · 1947
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
Film · 1947
Possessed
Film · 1947
Trail Street
Film · 1947
So Goes My Love
Film · 1946
That Brennan Girl
Film · 1946
Idea Girl
Film · 1946
Wild West
Film · 1946
My Dog Shep
Film · 1946
Joe Palooka, Champ
Film · 1946
Angel on My Shoulder
Film · 1946
Gentleman Joe Palooka
Film · 1946
Apology for Murder
Film · 1945
Riders of the Dawn
Film · 1945
The Master Key
Film · 1945
Wildfire
Film · 1945
Dakota
Film · 1945
Marshal of Laredo
Film · 1945
Song of Old Wyoming
Film · 1945
Identity Unknown
Film · 1945
The Navy Way
Film · 1944
Girl Rush
Film · 1944
Casanova Brown
Film · 1944
Summer Storm
Film · 1944
San Diego I Love You
Film · 1944
Ghost Guns
Film · 1944
Range Law
Film · 1944
Trail to Gunsight
Film · 1944
The Navy Way
Film · 1944
This Is the Life
Film · 1944
Hangmen Also Die!
Film · 1943
Family Troubles
Film · 1943
Assignment in Brittany
Film · 1943
So This Is Washington
Film · 1943
The Mad Monster
Film · 1942
Heart of the Rio Grande
Film · 1942
Riders of the West
Film · 1942
The Pride of the Yankees
Film · 1942
Private Snuffy Smith
Film · 1942
This Gun for Hire
Film · 1942
Law and Order
Film · 1942
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Film · 1942
The Corsican Brothers
Film · 1942
The Power of God
Film · 1942
Lady in a Jam
Film · 1942
A Woman's Face
Film · 1941
City of Missing Girls
Film · 1941
Reg'lar Fellers
Film · 1941
Murder by Invitation
Film · 1941
In Old Colorado
Film · 1941
The Man Who Lost Himself
Film · 1941
Chad Hanna
Film · 1940
Lone Star Raiders
Film · 1940
Son of the Navy
Film · 1940
Forgotten Girls
Film · 1940
The Zero Hour
Film · 1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Film · 1939
Let Freedom Ring
Film · 1939
Should a Girl Marry?
Film · 1939
I Stole a Million
Film · 1939
Off the Record
Film · 1939
Women in Prison
Film · 1938
Rich Man, Poor Girl
Film · 1938
Romance of the Limberlost
Film · 1938
Woman Against Woman
Film · 1938
Little Tough Guys in Society
Film · 1938
Little Orphan Annie
Film · 1938
Youth on Parole
Film · 1937
Exiled to Shanghai
Film · 1937
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
Film · 1935
A Dog of Flanders
Film · 1935
Anna Karenina
Film · 1935
Stranded
Film · 1935
Mad Love
Film · 1935
He Was Her Man
Film · 1934
David Harum
Film · 1934
The Defense Rests
Film · 1934
As the Earth Turns
Film · 1934
Man of Two Worlds
Film · 1934
Tomorrow's Children
Film · 1934
When Strangers Meet
Film · 1934
The Sin of Nora Moran
Film · 1933
Ann Vickers
Film · 1933
The Power and the Glory
Film · 1933
Face in the Sky
Film · 1933
The Important Witness
Film · 1933
Pilgrimage
Film · 1933
Doctor Bull
Film · 1933
Blondie of the Follies
Film · 1932
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Film · 1932
Cross-Examination
Film · 1932
Wild Girl
Film · 1932
The Midnight Lady
Film · 1932
Women Won't Tell
Film · 1932
Tess of the Storm Country
Film · 1932
Young America
Film · 1932
Kongo
Film · 1932
Red-Headed Woman
Film · 1932
Grand Hotel
Film · 1932
Rasputin and the Empress
Film · 1932
The Great Meadow
Film · 1931
The Yellow Ticket
Film · 1931
Bad Girl
Film · 1931
Mata Hari
Film · 1931
Sob Sister
Film · 1931
Hide-Out
Film · 1930
Billy the Kid
Film · 1930
Today
Film · 1930
Trifles
Film · 1930
The Sophomore
Film · 1929
Wonder of Women
Film · 1929
Companionate Marriage
Film · 1928
The Woman Who Did Not Care
Film · 1927
The Bugle Call
Film · 1927
Obey the Law
Film · 1926