Sarah Padden
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(left to right): George Cleveland, Jean Parker, Sarah Padden, and Marjorie Main, in Romance of the Limberlost
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| Born | October 16, 1881 |
| Died | December 4, 1967 (aged 86) |
| Occupation | Film and stage actress |
| Years active | 1926-1958 |
Sarah Padden (October 16, 1881 England – December 4, 1967 Los Angeles, California) was a theatre and film character actress. 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 took part in recitations in the Catholic Church school she attended in Chicago, where her fellow students enjoyed her talent as a mimic (entertainment). Her parents wanted her to enter a convent, but a liberal-minded priest, Father Dorney, encouraged her ambition to become an actress. He assisted her in obtaining her first stage role, a theatrical featuring Otis Skinner.
For many years, Padden lived in the vicinity of the Broad River, Gaston, South Carolina. On one occasion she ventured onto a dam, reaching its center just as the noon whistle blew near the power station. Frightened, she lost her balance and fell over, but she managed to cling to a steel eyebolt. Fortunately she was rescued by an African American servant of the power company superintendent. Afterwards Padden's parents hired the man and took him to New York City, where he died at age 108.
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.
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