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Heart of the Rio Grande
1942
as 'Skipper' Forbes
Sarah Padden
Also known as: Sarah Ann Padden, Sarah Padden Sackett
Acting
Born:October 15, 1881
Died:December 4, 1967(aged 86)
Birthplace:Sunderland, England, UK
Nationality:United Kingdom
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (108 movies)
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The Defense Rests
1934
as Mrs. Evans
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A Dog of Flanders
1935
as Frau Keller
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So Goes My Love
1946
as Bridget
7.0
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David Harum
1934
as Widow
6.9
6.9
The Corsican Brothers
1941
as Nurse
6.9
6.9
Hangmen Also Die!
1943
as Mrs. Georgia Dvorak
6.8
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A Woman's Face
1941
as Police Matron
6.7
6.7
House by the River
1950
as Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook
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6.6
Assignment in Brittany
1943
as Albertine
6.5
6.5
Woman Against Woman
1938
as Dora
6.5
6.5
Ramrod
1947
as Mrs. Parks
6.5
6.5
Anna Karenina
1935
as Governess
6.5
6.5
Red-Headed Woman
1932
as Mary, Legendre Maid (uncredited)
6.4
6.4
The Kettles in the Ozarks
1956
as Mrs. Tinware
6.4
6.4
Kongo
1932
as Nun (uncredited)
6.2
6.2
Mata Hari
1931
as Sister Teresa (uncredited)
6.2
6.2
San Diego I Love You
1944
as Mrs. Gulliver (uncredited)
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6.2
He Was Her Man
1934
as Mrs. Gardella
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Man of Two Worlds
1934
as Olago
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Wild Girl
1932
as Lize
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The Missourians
1950
as Mother Kovacs
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Little Tough Guys in Society
1938
as Victim
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Blondie of the Follies
1932
as Ma McClune
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My Dog Shep
1946
as Carrie Hodgkins
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Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
1948
as Mom Palooka
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Joe Palooka in the Knockout
1947
as Mom Palooka
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Romance of the Limberlost
1938
as Sarah
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Tess of the Storm Country
1932
as Old Martha
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Let Freedom Ring
1939
as 'Ma' Logan
6.0
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Women in Prison
1938
as Martha Wilson
6.0
6.0
Chad Hanna
1940
as Mrs. Todd
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Law and Order
1942
as Mary Todd
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Rich Man, Poor Girl
1938
as Ma
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Bad Girl
1931
as Mrs. Gardner
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The Return of the Whistler
1948
as Mrs. Hulskamp
5.8
5.8
In Old Colorado
1941
as Ma Harriet Woods
5.8
5.8
Ghost Guns
1944
as Aunt Sally
5.7
5.7
The Navy Way
1944
as Mrs. Margaret Gimble
5.7
5.7
Murder by Invitation
1941
as Cassandra Hildegard Denham
5.7
5.7
The Power and the Glory
1933
as Henry's Wife
5.5
5.5
Love and Learn
1947
as Mrs. Grant (uncredited)
5.5
5.5
Family Troubles
1943
as Mrs. Jones
5.5
5.5
Son of the Navy
1940
as Mrs. Baker - Landlady
5.5
5.5
Ann Vickers
1933
as Lil
5.4
5.4
The Sin of Nora Moran
1933
as Mrs. Watts
5.3
5.3
The Midnight Lady
1932
as Nita St. George
5.3
5.3
As the Earth Turns
1934
as Mrs. Janowski
5.3
5.3
Homicide
1949
as Mrs. Webb
5.2
5.2
The Dude Goes West
1948
as Mrs. Hallihan
5.2
5.2
Song of Old Wyoming
1945
as Ma Conway
5.1
5.1
Dakota
1945
as Mrs. Plummer
5.1
5.1
That Brennan Girl
1946
as Mrs. Graves, the Nice Landlady
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Trifles
1930
as Mrs. Wright
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5.0
So This Is Washington
1943
as Aunt Charity Speers
5.0
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Utah Wagon Train
1951
as Sarah Wendover
5.0
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Girl Rush
1944
as Mrs. Emma Mason
5.0
5.0
The Great Meadow
1931
as Mistress Molly Hall
5.0
5.0
Identity Unknown
1945
as Mrs. Anderson
5.0
5.0
Frontier Revenge
1948
as Widow Owens
5.0
5.0
Young America
1932
as Mrs. Mary Taylor
5.0
5.0
The Important Witness
1933
as Deaf Woman
4.9
4.9
Big Jim McLain
1952
as Mrs. Lexiter
4.9
4.9
Exiled to Shanghai
1937
as Aunt Jane
4.9
4.9
Screaming Mimi
1958
as Landlady
4.7
4.7
Prince of Players
1955
as Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited)
4.7
4.7
Face in the Sky
1933
as Ma Brown
4.6
4.6
Cross-Examination
1932
as Mary Stevens
4.6
4.6
Apology for Murder
1945
as Maggie
4.6
4.6
Girl with an Itch
1958
as Cookie
4.5
4.5
The Sophomore
1929
as Mrs. Collins
4.5
4.5
Forgotten Girls
1940
as Miss Donaldson
4.5
4.5
The Zero Hour
1939
as Sister Theodosia
4.3
4.3
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941
as Maid
4.0
4.0
City of Missing Girls
1941
as Mrs. Randolph
4.0
4.0
Riders of the West
1942
as Ma Turner
4.0
4.0
Women Won't Tell
1932
as Aggie Specks
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4.0
Gunslingers
1950
as Rawhide Rosie Rawlins
3.9
3.9
Reg'lar Fellers
1941
as Hetty Carter
3.8
3.8
Private Snuffy Smith
1942
as Lowizie Smith
3.6
3.6
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
1935
as Sarah
3.5
3.5
Should a Girl Marry?
1939
as Mrs. Wilson
3.5
3.5
Again Pioneers
1950
as Ma Ashby
3.3
3.3
The Mad Monster
1942
as Grandmother
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3.0
Wonder of Women
1929
as Anna
2.8
2.8
Youth on Parole
1937
as Mrs. Blair
1.0
1.0
Wildfire
1945
as Aunt Agatha
1.0
1.0
Today
1930
as Emma Warner
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1.0
Companionate Marriage
1928
as Mrs. Williams
Trail to Gunsight
1944
as Grandma Wagner
The Master Key
1945
as Aggie
Wild West
1946
as Carrie Bannister
Marshal of Laredo
1945
as Mrs. Randall
Range Justice
1949
as Ma Curtis
Riders of the Dawn
1945
as Melinda Pringle
The Power of God
1942
as Esther Worne
The Bugle Call
1927
as Luke's Wife
Joe Palooka, Champ
1946
as Mom Palooka
Little Orphan Annie
1938
as Mrs. Nora Moriarty
Obey the Law
1926
as The Mother
Idea Girl
1946
as Old Lady
Gentleman Joe Palooka
1946
as Mom Palooka
Lone Star Raiders
1940
as Lydia 'Granny' Phelps
Hide-Out
1930
as Mrs. Dorgan
Sob Sister
1931
as Ma Stevens
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1932
as Mrs Cobb
The Woman Who Did Not Care
1927
as Mrs. Carroll
Range Law
1944
as Boots Annie
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