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.

Grand Hotel

6.9

This Gun for Hire

6.9

Hangmen Also Die!

6.9

The Pride of the Yankees

7.4

Mad Love

6.9

House by the River

6.7

Anna Karenina

6.6

A Woman's Face

6.9

Adventures of Superman

6.7

Mata Hari

6.2

Ramrod

6.4

Red-Headed Woman

6.7

Angel on My Shoulder

6.4

The Mad Monster

3.2

Dragnet

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Dakota

5.1

Bad Girl

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Big Jim McLain

4.9

The Lone Ranger

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Screaming Mimi

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The Sin of Nora Moran

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Kongo

6.4

Casanova Brown

6.3

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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A Life of Her Own

5.3

The Abbott and Costello Show

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The Return of the Whistler

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Pilgrimage

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The Power and the Glory

5.9

The Yellow Ticket

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Apology for Murder

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Billy the Kid

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Rasputin and the Empress

5.3

Blondie of the Follies

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Wild Girl

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That Brennan Girl

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Doctor Bull

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Lady in a Jam

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Ann Vickers

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City of Missing Girls

4.1

Private Snuffy Smith

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Murder by Invitation

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Homicide

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Rich Man, Poor Girl

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Summer Storm

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The Cisco Kid

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Cross-Examination

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He Was Her Man

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The Defense Rests

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As the Earth Turns

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Reg'lar Fellers

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My Dog Shep

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The Navy Way

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Girl with an Itch

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The Corsican Brothers

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So Goes My Love

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Young America

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So This Is Washington

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Song of Old Wyoming

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Stranded

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Identity Unknown

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Letter to Loretta

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The Hoosier Schoolmaster

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Assignment in Brittany

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Youth on Parole

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Exiled to Shanghai

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The Dude Goes West

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Son of the Navy

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Trifles

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Off the Record

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The Kettles in the Ozarks

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The Midnight Lady

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Let Freedom Ring

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In Old Colorado

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San Diego I Love You

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Wild Bill Hickok Rides

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Prince of Players

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Forgotten Girls

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Family Troubles

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Face in the Sky

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Chad Hanna

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The Zero Hour

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The Sophomore

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Woman Against Woman

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Frontier Revenge

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Should a Girl Marry?

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Utah Wagon Train

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Ghost Guns

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Love and Learn

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Again Pioneers

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The Man Who Lost Himself

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Wonder of Women

3.0

The Life Of Riley

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Public Defender

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Women in Prison

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Heart of the Rio Grande

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Girl Rush

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The Great Meadow

5.0

David Harum

7.0

Tess of the Storm Country

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The Important Witness

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Today

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A Dog of Flanders

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Man of Two Worlds

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Little Tough Guys in Society

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Gunslingers

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The Missourians

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I Stole a Million

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Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad

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Joe Palooka in the Knockout

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Companionate Marriage

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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

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The Woman Who Did Not Care

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Hide-Out

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Obey the Law

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Riders of the West

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Riders of the Dawn

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The Master Key

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Women Won't Tell

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Romance of the Limberlost

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Wildfire

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Idea Girl

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Lone Star Raiders

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Law and Order

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Marshal of Laredo

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Range Law

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Trail to Gunsight

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Wild West

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Range Justice

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Little Orphan Annie

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The Power of God

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The Bugle Call

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Joe Palooka, Champ

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Gentleman Joe Palooka

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Sob Sister

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