
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.

Heart of the Rio Grande

The Pride of the Yankees

凸凹劇場 アボット・コステロ

The Kettles in the Ozarks

Mad Love

So Goes My Love

David Harum

The Defense Rests

A Dog of Flanders

グランド・ホテル

This Gun for Hire

The Corsican Brothers

死刑執行人もまた死す

戦争と母性

失われた心

ローン・レンジャー

A Woman's Face

House by the River

Adventures of Superman

Assignment in Brittany

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Red-Headed Woman

Woman Against Woman

Doctor Bull

Angel on My Shoulder

Letter to Loretta

Ramrod

アンナ・カレニナ

Casanova Brown

Kongo

Trail Street

ドラグネット

He Was Her Man

San Diego I Love You

マタ・ハリ

Blondie of the Follies

Women in Prison

Wild Girl

Tess of the Storm Country

Romance of the Limberlost

Chad Hanna

Let Freedom Ring

Man of Two Worlds

Law and Order

Little Tough Guys in Society

The Missourians

My Dog Shep

I Stole a Million

Off the Record

Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad

Joe Palooka in the Knockout

The Life Of Riley

The Return of the Whistler

Rich Man, Poor Girl

Bad Girl

In Old Colorado

Ghost Guns

Stranded

Murder by Invitation

The Navy Way

The Power and the Glory

Public Defender

Family Troubles

Son of the Navy

Love and Learn

Ann Vickers

The Sin of Nora Moran

Lady in a Jam

The Midnight Lady

As the Earth Turns

Homicide

Summer Storm

The Dude Goes West

Song of Old Wyoming

That Brennan Girl

ダコタ荒原

Rasputin and the Empress

A Life of Her Own

Girl Rush

The Great Meadow

The Important Witness

Young America

So This Is Washington

Frontier Revenge

Utah Wagon Train

Trifles

Identity Unknown

Exiled to Shanghai

Big Jim McLain

Screaming Mimi

Face in the Sky

The Yellow Ticket

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

Prince of Players

Cross-Examination

Tomorrow's Children

Apology for Murder

Girl with an Itch

The Zero Hour

The Sophomore

The Man Who Lost Himself

Forgotten Girls

City of Missing Girls

Billy the Kid

Riders of the West

Women Won't Tell

Gunslingers

Reg'lar Fellers

Private Snuffy Smith

The Hoosier Schoolmaster

Should a Girl Marry?

Again Pioneers

The Mad Monster

Wonder of Women

Youth on Parole

Today

Wildfire

Companionate Marriage

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

The Woman Who Did Not Care

Hide-Out

Obey the Law

Riders of the Dawn

The Master Key

Lone Star Raiders

Marshal of Laredo

Range Law

Trail to Gunsight

Wild West

Range Justice

The Power of God

The Bugle Call

Joe Palooka, Champ

Gentleman Joe Palooka

Sob Sister

When Strangers Meet