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.

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Sarah Padden

Filmografia

Blondie of the Follies

Un genio in famiglia

Bassa marea

The Navy Way

Anche i boia muoiono

La statua che urla

The Return of the Whistler

Apology for Murder

Volto di donna

Il segreto di Nora Moran

Ann Vickers

The Hoosier Schoolmaster

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Family Troubles

The Woman Who Did Not Care

Potenza e gloria

Women in Prison

Hide-Out

Mostro pazzo

Heart of the Rio Grande

Cross-Examination

Obey the Law

Riders of the West

Wild Girl

Billy the Kid

Girl with an Itch

He Was Her Man

L'idolo delle folle

The Midnight Lady

Rich Man, Poor Girl

Riders of the Dawn

Assignment in Brittany

City of Missing Girls

Youth on Parole

Girl Rush

That Brennan Girl

The Master Key

Exiled to Shanghai

The Great Meadow

David Harum

Women Won't Tell

Private Snuffy Smith

La madonnina del porto

Face in the Sky

The Defense Rests

Le tre donne di Casanova

The Important Witness

Romance of the Limberlost

Young America

As the Earth Turns

The Dude Goes West

Passione di amazzoni

Today

Wildfire

The Zero Hour

A Dog of Flanders

The Sophomore

Woman Against Woman

So This Is Washington

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Let Freedom Ring

Temporale d'estate

Kongo

Idea Girl

Il passaporto giallo

Frontier Revenge

Should a Girl Marry?

Man of Two Worlds

Reg'lar Fellers

Il cavaliere audace

Il fuorilegge

Lone Star Raiders

Murder by Invitation

Law and Order

In Old Colorado