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