Sarah Padden [34749] Gender: Female Popularity: 1.9138 Birthplace: Sunderland, England, UK Birthday: 1881-10-15 Deathday: 1967-12-04 Age: 86 years Movies: 127 Links: Homepage, IMDB 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. Girl with an Itch1958-11-12 Screaming Mimi1958-06-25 The Kettles in the Ozar1956-04-01 Prince of Players1955-01-11 Big Jim McLain1952-08-30 Utah Wagon Train1951-10-14 The Missourians1950-11-25 Again Pioneers1950-11-01 A Life of Her Own1950-09-01 Gunslingers1950-04-09 House by the River1950-03-25 Range Justice1949-07-16 Homicide1949-04-02 Frontier Revenge1948-12-26 The Dude Goes West1948-05-30 The Return of the Whist1948-03-18 Joe Palooka in Fighting1948-02-07 Joe Palooka in the Knoc1947-09-20 Love and Learn1947-05-02 Ramrod1947-05-02 That Brennan Girl1946-12-23 Wild West1946-12-01 My Dog Shep1946-11-01 Gentleman Joe Palooka1946-10-05 Angel on My Shoulder1946-09-20 Joe Palooka, Champ1946-05-26 So Goes My Love1946-05-01 Idea Girl1946-02-08 Dakota1945-12-15 Riders of the Dawn1945-11-03 Song of Old Wyoming1945-10-11 Marshal of Laredo1945-10-06 Apology for Murder1945-09-27 Wildfire1945-07-18 The Master Key1945-04-24 Identity Unknown1945-04-02 Ghost Guns1944-11-17 Girl Rush1944-10-21 San Diego I Love You1944-09-29 Casanova Brown1944-08-23 Trail to Gunsight1944-08-18 Summer Storm1944-07-14 Range Law1944-06-24 The Navy Way1944-02-26 So This Is Washington1943-08-01 Family Troubles1943-04-03 Hangmen Also Die!1943-04-15 Assignment in Brittany1943-03-11 Law and Order1942-08-21 Riders of the West1942-08-21 The Pride of the Yankee1942-07-14 Lady in a Jam1942-06-19 The Mad Monster1942-05-15 This Gun for Hire1942-04-24 Heart of the Rio Grande1942-03-11 Wild Bill Hickok Rides1942-01-31 Private Snuffy Smith1942-01-16 The Power of God1942-01-15 The Corsican Brothers1941-11-28 Reg'lar Fellers1941-09-05 Murder by Invitation1941-06-30 A Woman's Face1941-05-09 City of Missing Girls1941-03-27 The Man Who Lost Himsel1941-03-21 In Old Colorado1941-03-14 Chad Hanna1940-12-25 Lone Star Raiders1940-12-23 Son of the Navy1940-03-30 Forgotten Girls1940-03-15 I Stole a Million1939-08-01 Should a Girl Marry?1939-06-07 The Zero Hour1939-05-26 Let Freedom Ring1939-02-24 The Adventures of Huckl1939-02-10 Off the Record1939-01-21 Little Orphan Annie1938-12-02 Little Tough Guys in So1938-11-01 Rich Man, Poor Girl1938-08-12 Woman Against Woman1938-06-24 Romance of the Limberlo1938-06-16 Women in Prison1938-03-02 Exiled to Shanghai1937-12-20 Youth on Parole1937-10-04 Anna Karenina1935-08-30 Mad Love1935-07-12 Stranded1935-06-29 The Hoosier Schoolmaste1935-05-14 A Dog of Flanders1935-03-22 The Defense Rests1934-07-15 He Was Her Man1934-06-16 David Harum1934-03-02 As the Earth Turns1934-02-14 Man of Two Worlds1934-01-13 The Sin of Nora Moran1933-12-13 The Power and the Glory1933-10-06 Ann Vickers1933-09-26 Doctor Bull1933-09-22 The Important Witness1933-07-15 Pilgrimage1933-07-12 Face in the Sky1933-01-15 Rasputin and the Empres1932-12-23 Tess of the Storm Count1932-11-20 Women Won't Tell1932-11-16 Wild Girl1932-11-09 Kongo1932-10-01 Blondie of the Follies1932-09-01 Rebecca of Sunnybrook F1932-07-03 Red-Headed Woman1932-06-25 The Midnight Lady1932-05-15 Young America1932-04-17 Grand Hotel1932-05-25 Cross-Examination1932-02-13 Mata Hari1931-12-26 The Yellow Ticket1931-10-30 Sob Sister1931-10-25 Bad Girl1931-08-13 The Great Meadow1931-01-24 Today1930-11-01 Billy the Kid1930-10-16 Hide-Out1930-03-30 Trifles1930-01-30 The Sophomore1929-08-24 Wonder of Women1929-07-13 Companionate Marriage1928-10-21 The Bugle Call1927-08-06 The Woman Who Did Not C1927-07-05 Obey the Law1926-11-05