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House by the River

as Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook

1950
The Return of the Whistler

as Mrs. Hulskamp

1948
The Dude Goes West

as Mrs. Hallihan

1948
Frontier Revenge

as Widow Owens

1948
The Master Key

as Aggie

1945
Wildfire

as Aunt Agatha

1945
Girl Rush

as Mrs. Emma Mason

1944
Assignment in Brittany

as Albertine

1943
The Mad Monster

as Grandmother

1942
Riders of the West

as Ma Turner

1942
Heart of the Rio Grande

as 'Skipper' Forbes

1942
Law and Order

as Mary Todd

1942
Private Snuffy Smith

as Lowizie Smith

1942
In Old Colorado

as Ma Harriet Woods

1941
Reg'lar Fellers

as Hetty Carter

1941
City of Missing Girls

as Mrs. Randolph

1941
Murder by Invitation

as Cassandra Hildegard Denham

1941
The Zero Hour

as Sister Theodosia

1939
Woman Against Woman

as Dora

1938
As the Earth Turns

as Mrs. Janowski

1934
He Was Her Man

as Mrs. Gardella

1934
The Sin of Nora Moran

as Mrs. Watts

1933
Face in the Sky

as Ma Brown

1933
The Important Witness

as Deaf Woman

1933
Wild Girl

as Lize

1932
Tess of the Storm Country

as Old Martha

1932
Bad Girl

as Mrs. Gardner

1931
Sarah Padden Sarah Padden

Birthday

1881-10-15

Place of Birth

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.
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